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Books like Wise Child: 9 series to read next

Wise Child is fantasy, about witches, set in medieval and british isles. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Wise Child is 3 books, 1987–2004.

“In a remote Scottish village, nine-year-old Wise Child is taken in by Juniper, a healer and sorceress.”
from the catalogue description

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Narnia
Tolkien's legendarium
Earthsea
His Dark Materials
Five Children Universe
The Princess and the Goblin
Peter Pan
The Dark Is Rising
Howl's Castle

NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

Portal fantasy.

“Once there is a wardrobe at the back of a spare room, and behind the fur coats the wood gives way to snow, and a lamp-post burns alone among the trees.”
from the catalogue description

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Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

universe163 books1923

Fantasy, 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

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EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, reflective in tone, about wizards.

“There is a lesson every wizard of Earthsea learns young: to know a thing's true name is to hold its whole being, and to speak it is to move the balance of the world.”
from the catalogue description

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His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Set in parallel universe.

“In a world like ours and unlike it, every human soul walks outside the body in the shape of an animal — a daemon, who speaks, who cannot be lied to, and who settles into one fixed form only when childhood ends.”
from the catalogue description

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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 →

The Princess and the GoblinSeries

seriesGeorge MacDonald2 books1871

About quests.

“Strahan had published the story and illustrations as a serial in the monthly magazine Good Words for the Young, beginning November 1870.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Princess and the Goblin →

Peter PanUniverse

universe112 books1902

Fantasy.

“Second star to the right, and straight on till morning — and there it is, the island that every child dreams once and then, growing up, contrives to forget.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Peter Pan →

The Dark Is RisingSeries

seriesSusan Cooper5 books1965

Set in contemporary.

“The first book in the series, Over Sea, Under Stone, was originally conceived as a stand-alone novel, and the sequence gets its name from the second novel in the series, The Dark Is Rising.”
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Start with Over Sea, Under Stone →

Howl's CastleSeries

seriesDiana Wynne Jones3 books1986

Fantasy, adventurous and whimsical in tone, set in secondary world.

Start with Howl's Moving Castle →

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 Wise Child?: Narnia — the closest match to Wise Child on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Wise Child?: Wise Child. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Wise Child.
How big is Wise Child?: Wise Child is 3 books, 1987–2004.
Is Wise Child finished?: Yes — 3 books, 1987–2004.

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