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Books like Green Mouse: 9 series to read next

Green Mouse is romance and fantasy, about magical artifacts, set in our world, lighthearted in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Green Mouse is 7 books, 1904–1910.

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Five Children Universe
Doctor Dolittle
Teardrop Trilogy
The Wind in the Willows Universe
Boggart
Tales of Magic
Tolkien's legendarium
Philippa Fisher
Matter-of-Fact Magic

Five Children UniverseSeries

seriesE. Nesbit, Helen Cresswell & Kate Saunders27 books1902

Fantasy, set in early 20th century and british isles.

“Neither book is by Nesbit herself, and the two have no direct connection to each other beyond both drawing on her creation.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Return of the Psammead →

Doctor DolittleSeries

seriesHugh Lofting, Kathryn Knight & Nick Price27 books1920

Fantasy, whimsical in tone, set in early 20th century and our world.

“Lofting wrote twelve novels between 1920 and 1936, beginning with The Story of Doctor Dolittle, with two further story collections published after his 1947 death.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Story of Doctor Dolittle: Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts →

Teardrop TrilogySeries

seriesLauren Kate2 books2013

Emotional in tone, set in contemporary.

“Eureka Boudreaux's mother drilled that rule into her daughter years ago.”
from the catalogue description of Teardrop

Start with Teardrop →

The Wind in the Willows UniverseSeries

seriesKenneth Grahame, William Horwood, Anne McKie, Ellen Miles, Inga Moore, Juliet Stanley, Kij Johnson, Lesley Sims, M. G. Leonard, Samantha Noonan & Susan Hill17 books1908

About friendship.

Start with The Wind in the Willows: A Fine Welcome →

BoggartSeries

seriesSusan Cooper3 books1993

About fae, set in contemporary.

“Cooper, best known for The Dark Is Rising sequence, writes here in a lighter fantasy-adventure register.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Boggart →

Tales of MagicSeries

seriesEdward Eager7 books1954

About friendship, set in contemporary.

“Each book follows a different, sometimes overlapping set of children and a different magical object or rule, from Knight's Castle to the deliberately ambiguous Magic or Not? and its sequel The Well-Wishers.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Half Magic →

Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

universe163 books1923

Set in secondary world.

“Before the seas were bent and the mountains raised, there was Music — and from that Music came Arda, and in the west of Middle-earth the long defeat and stubborn hope of those who dwell there.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

Philippa FisherSeries

seriesLiz Kessler3 books2008

About fae and friendship, set in contemporary.

“Embarrassed by her free-spirited parents and lonely when her best friend moves away, a self-conscious eleven-year-old girl named Philippa summons a wish-granting fairy godmother, with unexpected results.”
from the catalogue description of Philippa Fisher's Fairy Godsister

Start with Philippa Fisher's Fairy Godsister →

Matter-of-Fact MagicSeries

seriesRuth Chew10 books1969

About witches, set in contemporary.

“WorldCat: The arrival of a witch who travels by magic vacuum cleaner is only the beginning of Mary Jane's strange adventures.”
from the catalogue description of The Wednesday Witch

Start with The Wednesday Witch →

Why these

No sales rank, no star ratings, no readers also bought.

Shared terms are not a promise that a book feels the same. Two series can be far-future political intrigue and read nothing alike — what the ranking can say is what they are about, and each card says which parts it shares.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after Green Mouse?: Five Children Universe — the closest match to Green Mouse on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Green Mouse?: The Green Mouse. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Green Mouse.
How big is Green Mouse?: Green Mouse is 7 books, 1904–1910.
Is Green Mouse finished?: Yes — 7 books, 1904–1910.

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