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Books like James and the Giant Peach 1961
Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About James and the Giant Peach
Books closest to James and the Giant Peach
Stuart Little 1945Also classical in form, effortless and earnest
Horton Hears a Who! 1954Also classical in form, effortless and resolved
Hershel and the Hanukkah goblins 1989Also classical in form, resolved and effortless
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle 1922Also classical in form, resolved and warm
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964Also classical in form, resolved and effortless
Roverandom 1998Also classical in form, resolved and warm
The Whipping Boy 1986Also classical in form, resolved and effortless
Figgs & phantoms 1974Also classical in form, warm and effortless
Five Children and It 1905Also classical in form, warm and effortless
The Enchanted Castle 1907Also classical in form, resolved and effortless
The Cruise of the Snark 1911Also classical in form, resolved and earnest
Turn Right at Machu Picchu 2011Also classical in form, resolved and effortless
The same feel, in other forms
Films
Tangled 2010Also classical in form, resolved and effortless
The Jungle Book 1967Also classical in form, resolved and effortless
Lady for a Day 1933Also classical in form, resolved and effortless
Albums
- Better Day 2011Also classical in form, resolved and earnest
- Fearless 2008Also classical in form, resolved and effortless
- #16 1963Also classical in form, resolved and effortless
Games
Leo's Fortune 2014Also warm and resolved
Soaring Machinariae 2021Also classical in form and earnest
Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked 2025Also classical in form, warm and resolved
Series
Sesame Street 1969Also warm, classical in form and resolved
Time Trax 1993Also classical in form, resolved and earnest
My Secret Identity 1988Also classical in form, resolved and effortless
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