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Books like His Dark Materials: Serpentine

If you loved His Dark Materials: Serpentine by Philip Pullman, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Emotions & Feelings, Fantasy & Magic, Classics, and Social Themes.

Top related books to His Dark Materials: Serpentine

Handpicked for thematic and literary overlap — the best shelf companions to His Dark Materials: Serpentine.

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

William Steig

Themes: Emotions & Feelings • Fantasy & Magic • Classics

The Velveteen Rabbit Hardcover The Classic Edition by The New York Times Bestselling Illustrator, Charles Santore

Margery Williams Bianco

Themes: Emotions & Feelings • Fantasy & Magic • Classics

One Christmas Wish

Katherine Rundell

Themes: Emotions & Feelings • Fantasy & Magic • Classics

The Borrowers Aloft With the Short Tale Poor Stainless

Mary Norton

Themes: Emotions & Feelings • Fantasy & Magic • Classics

Tuck Everlasting

Natalie Babbitt

Themes: Emotions & Feelings • Fantasy & Magic • Classics

The Big Green Book

Robert Graves

Themes: Emotions & Feelings • Fantasy & Magic • Social Themes

Lalani of the Distant Sea

Erin Entrada Kelly

Themes: Emotions & Feelings • Fantasy & Magic • Social Themes

Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile

Bernard Waber

Themes: Emotions & Feelings • Classics • Social Themes

She Who Rides the Storm

Caitlin Sangster

Themes: Emotions & Feelings • Fantasy & Magic • Social Themes

#10

The Wrong Side of the Bed

Edward Ardizzone

Themes: Emotions & Feelings • Classics • Social Themes

#11

Unravel Me

Tahereh Mafi

Themes: Emotions & Feelings • Fantasy & Magic • Social Themes

#12

Best Wishes (Best Wishes #1)

Sarah Mlynowski

Themes: Emotions & Feelings • Fantasy & Magic • Social Themes

#13

Will You Be My Friend? (Discover Little Nutbrown Hare’s New Friendship in This Follow-Up to ‘Guess How Much I Love You’ – for Toddlers and Preschoolers)

Sam McBratney

Themes: Emotions & Feelings • Classics • Social Themes

#14

The Monster Above the Bed

Kailei Pew

Themes: Emotions & Feelings • Fantasy & Magic • Social Themes

#15

Snow Day in May

Christine Evans

Themes: Emotions & Feelings • Fantasy & Magic • Social Themes

#16

Trouble Finds Plum!

Matt Phelan

Themes: Emotions & Feelings • Fantasy & Magic • Social Themes

#17

The One and Only Ivan Movie Tie-In Edition My Story

Katherine Applegate

Themes: Emotions & Feelings • Classics • Social Themes

#18

There’s a Unicorn in Your Book

Tom Fletcher

Themes: Emotions & Feelings • Fantasy & Magic • Social Themes

#19

The Giver

Lois Lowry

Themes: Emotions & Feelings • Fantasy & Magic • Social Themes

#20

Every Spiral of Fate

Tahereh Mafi

Themes: Emotions & Feelings • Fantasy & Magic • Social Themes

#21

Cranky

Phuc Tran

Themes: Emotions & Feelings • Fantasy & Magic • Social Themes

#22

A Circus Wish

Sue Bentley

Themes: Emotions & Feelings • Fantasy & Magic • Social Themes

#23

The House That Wasn’t There

Elana K. Arnold

Themes: Emotions & Feelings • Fantasy & Magic • Social Themes

#24

Medusa

Katherine Marsh

Themes: Emotions & Feelings • Fantasy & Magic • Social Themes

Fans of His Dark Materials: Serpentine by Philip Pullman will find 24 titles here, all united by Emotions & Feelings, Fantasy & Magic, Classics. Authors represented include William Steig, Margery Williams Bianco, Katherine Rundell, Mary Norton, and others.