Jacob's Ladder

7 best books like Jacob's Ladder (Brian Keaney): Desperation, Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise, To Be Taught, If Fortunate, The Tea Dragon Festival, The Bad Guys: Episode 1, Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun, Hilda and the Mountain King

Desperation

Author

Stephen King

**4.5-stars rounded up**

A bizarrely assembled cast of characters come together to fight an evil, older and more powerful than they ever could have imagined.

That would be my single-sentence synopsis if someone were to ask me what Desperation is about.

If you have...

Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise

Author	Katherine Rundell
ISBN	1526610078

Katherine Rundell – Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and prize-winning author of five novels for children – explores how children's books ignite, and can re-ignite, the imagination; how children's fiction, with its unabashed emotion and playfulness, can awaken old hungers and create new...

To Be Taught, If Fortunate

Author	Becky Chambers
ISBN	0062936018

In her new novella, Sunday Times best-selling author Becky Chambers imagines a future in which, instead of terraforming planets to sustain human life, explorers of the solar system instead transform themselves.

Ariadne is one such explorer. As an astronaut on an extrasolar research vessel,...

The Tea Dragon Festival

Author	Katie O'Neill
ISBN	1620106558

Rinn has grown up with the Tea Dragons that inhabit their village, but stumbling across a real dragon turns out to be a different matter entirely! Aedhan is a young dragon who was appointed to protect the village but fell asleep in the forest eighty years ago. With the aid of Rinn’s adventuring uncle...

The Bad Guys: Episode 1

Author	Aaron Blabey
ISBN	1760150428

They sound like the Bad Guys, they look like the Bad Guys . . . and they even smell like the Bad Guys. But Mr Wolf, Mr Piranha, Mr Snake and Mr Shark are about to change all of that! Mr Wolf has a daring plan for the Bad Guys first good mission. The gang are going to break 200 dogs out of the Maximum Security City Dog...

Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

Author	Guillermo del Toro
ISBN	0062414461

Fans of dark fairy-tales like The Hazel Wood and The Cruel Prince will relish this atmospheric and absorbing book based on Guillermo del Toro’s critically acclaimed movie.

Oscar winning writer-director Guillermo del Toro and New York Times bestselling author Cornelia Funke have come...

Hilda and the Mountain King

Author	Luke Pearson
ISBN	1911171178

See what perils await our beloved blue-haired adventurer in the sixth book of Luke Pearson’s widely praised series.
We rejoin our heroine for her latest adventure just as she awakes to find herself...in the body of a troll! Her mother is worried sick, and is perplexed by the strange creature that...