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Books like The Wombles: 9 series to read next

The Wombles is fantasy, set in contemporary. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

The Wombles is 6 books, 1968–1976.

“The adventures of the Wombles who live underground and collect the things that untidy humans leave behind.”
from the catalogue description

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Catwings
The Wind in the Willows Universe
Philippa Fisher
Boggart
Watership Down
Five Children Universe
Tales of Magic
Bod Owens
Doctor Dolittle

CatwingsSeries

seriesUrsula K. Le Guin7 books1988

About coming of age.

“Catwings is also the title of the first book in the series.”
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Start with Catwings →

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

Fantasy, about friendship, set in british isles.

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

Philippa FisherSeries

seriesLiz Kessler3 books2008

About fae.

“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 →

BoggartSeries

seriesSusan Cooper3 books1993

About fae.

“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 →

Watership DownSeries

seriesRichard Adams21 books1972

Adventurous in tone, about quests.

“Adams returned to the same world in 1996 with Tales from Watership Down, a collection of nineteen short stories mixing rabbit folklore with further adventures of characters from the novel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Watership Down →

Five Children UniverseSeries

seriesE. Nesbit, Helen Cresswell & Kate Saunders27 books1902

Set in early 20th century.

“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 →

Tales of MagicSeries

seriesEdward Eager7 books1954

Fantasy, whimsical in tone, about friendship, set in contemporary and our world.

“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 →

Bod OwensSeries

seriesNeil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell3 books2007

Dark fantasy, bittersweet in tone, about coming of age.

“Neil Gaiman's 2008 novel won both the Newbery and Carnegie Medals, and illustrator P. Craig Russell later adapted it into a two-volume graphic novel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Witch's Headstone →

Doctor DolittleSeries

seriesHugh Lofting, Kathryn Knight & Nick Price27 books1920

Set in early 20th century.

“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 →

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 The Wombles?: Catwings — the closest match to The Wombles on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Wombles?: The Wombles. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Wombles.
How big is The Wombles?: The Wombles is 6 books, 1968–1976.
Is The Wombles finished?: Yes — 6 books, 1968–1976.

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