Rosemary Wells books

Chapter Books to Grow Into
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The Rescuers
101 Dalmations (the original novel, not anything Disneyfied)
The Wind in the Willows (though I think I understood that one better after I'd been to college, where I met Toad. I didn't meet Badger until graduate school.)
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
A Rat's Tale

OK, yeah. I'm showing my pro-rodent bias here!