Books like Le petit Nicolas

Le petit Nicolas by Jean-Jacques Sempé reads as nostalgic, humorous. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Les récrés du petit Nicolas

Jean-Jacques Sempé · 1961

Both explore childhood & friendship

86% genome match

Now we are six

A. A. Milne · 1925

Both explore childhood & friendship

73% genome match

The folk of the Faraway Tree

Enid Blyton · 1946

Both explore friendship & childhood

69% genome match

The Magic of Oz

L. Frank Baum · 1919

Both explore friendship

67% genome match

The Real Mother Goose

Blanche Fisher Wright · 1916

Both explore childhood

67% genome match

Walt Disney's The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

Walt Disney Company · 1997

Both explore friendship & childhood

69% genome match

A Child's Garden of Verses

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1885

Both explore childhood & innocence

65% genome match

L'Odyssée d'Astérix

Albert Uderzo · 1979

Both explore friendship & humor

68% genome match

Mary Poppins in the Park

Pamela L. Travers · 1934

Both explore childhood

66% genome match

Return to the Hundred Acre Wood

David Benedictus · 2009

Both explore friendship & childhood

66% genome match

Nursery rhymes of London town

Eleanor Farjeon · 1916

Both explore childhood

67% genome match

Astérix le Gaulois

René Goscinny · 1961

Both explore friendship & humor

65% genome match