https://pithybooks.com/tags/children/ Latest Pithy Books summaries tagged “children”. en Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:12:09 GMT https://pithybooks.com/books/goodnight-moon/ https://pithybooks.com/books/goodnight-moon/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A small bunny says goodnight to each object in the green room in this 1947 bedtime classic. https://pithybooks.com/books/island-of-the-blue-dolphins/ https://pithybooks.com/books/island-of-the-blue-dolphins/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Left alone on San Nicolas Island for eighteen years, Karana builds shelter, faces wild dogs, and finds company with Rontu. https://pithybooks.com/books/peter-pan/ https://pithybooks.com/books/peter-pan/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Wendy, John and Michael fly to Neverland with Peter, face Hook, and learn what growing up costs. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-horse-and-his-boy/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-horse-and-his-boy/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Shasta and Bree flee Calormen to Narnia with Aravis and Hwin. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-lorax/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-lorax/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Once-ler fells Truffula Trees for Thneed greed despite the Lorax, who speaks for the trees, warning him to stop. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-witches/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-witches/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A boy and his grandmother face the Grand High Witch's plan to turn England's children into mice. https://pithybooks.com/books/witches/ https://pithybooks.com/books/witches/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Colin Hawkins's rhyming picture book teaches small readers to spot witches, flaps and all. https://pithybooks.com/books/a-light-in-the-attic/ https://pithybooks.com/books/a-light-in-the-attic/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Silverstein's attic poems and line drawings turn chores, monsters, and homework into jokes and small rebellions. https://pithybooks.com/books/how-the-grinch-stole-christmas/ https://pithybooks.com/books/how-the-grinch-stole-christmas/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Grinch steals Who presents and learns Christmas means more than gifts. https://pithybooks.com/books/james-and-the-giant-peach/ https://pithybooks.com/books/james-and-the-giant-peach/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Lonely James escapes two cruel aunts inside a giant peach with huge insect friends, rolling to the sea and floating on gulls to New York City. https://pithybooks.com/books/oh-the-places-youll-go/ https://pithybooks.com/books/oh-the-places-youll-go/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Seuss Sendoff follows life highs, slumps, and moving on with courage. https://pithybooks.com/books/prince-caspian/ https://pithybooks.com/books/prince-caspian/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Pevensies return to ruins at Cair Paravel and help Caspian take back Narnia from Miraz. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-bfg/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-bfg/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Orphan Sophie is taken by the Big Friendly Giant, who blows happy dreams and eats vile snozzcumbers, and helps her stop nine man eating giants. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-voyage-of-the-dawn-treader/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-voyage-of-the-dawn-treader/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Lewis sends Lucy, Edmund and Eustace aboard Caspian's Dawn Treader to find seven lost lords, past dragon gold, dark dreams and the world's edge. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Dorothy is carried to Oz by a cyclone and walks the yellow brick road with Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Lion. https://pithybooks.com/books/alices-adventures-in-wonderland/ https://pithybooks.com/books/alices-adventures-in-wonderland/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Alice follows the White Rabbit, grows and shrinks through tea, croquet and trial. https://pithybooks.com/books/bridge-to-terabithia/ https://pithybooks.com/books/bridge-to-terabithia/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Katherine Paterson's Bridge to Terabithia retold: Jess Aarons and Leslie Burke build an imagined kingdom and face sudden loss. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-bad-beginning/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-bad-beginning/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT After a fire kills their parents, the Baudelaire orphans are sent to Count Olaf, who plots to steal their fortune. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-cat-in-the-hat/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-cat-in-the-hat/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A tall Cat turns a rainy day upside down for Sally and her brother, with Thing One and Thing Two in tow. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-magicians-nephew/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-magicians-nephew/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT C. S. Lewis's Narnia origin story retold: Digory and Polly, the Wood between the Worlds, the waking of Jadis in Charn, Aslan's singing creation, and the apple that leads to the wardrobe.