The Last Dragon
10 best books like The Last Dragon (Jane Yolen): The City on the Other Side, Stargazing, Hera: The Goddess and Her Glory, A Flight of Angels, Sleepless, Vol. 1, Delilah Dirk and the King's Shilling, The Stone Heart, Are You Listening?, Hicotea, Piper
The City on the Other Side
When a wealthy and sheltered young girl stumbles into a pitched war between two fairy kingdoms, the fate of San Francisco itself hangs in the balance!
The first decade of the twentieth century is coming to a close, and San Francisco is still recovering from the great earthquake of 1906. Isabel...
Moon is everything Christine isn’t. She’s confident, impulsive, artistic . . . and though they both grew up in the same Chinese-American suburb, Moon is somehow unlike anyone Christine has ever known.
When Moon’s family moves in next door to Christine’s, Moon goes from unlikely...
| Author | George O'Connor |
| ISBN | 1596434333 |
There's only one thing Zeus, the king of the Gods, is afraid of. It isn't the many-headed Hydra or the towering Gigantes. It isn't his powerful, jealous brother Poseidon, the god of the seas. Monsters, gods, Titans—none of them make the mighty Zeus blink an eye.
The only thing Zeus fears is...
| Author | Rebecca Guay |
| ISBN | 1401232000 |
The diverse mythology of angels is explored in this lushly painted graphic novel from high-profile fantasy authors including Holly Black (The Spiderwick Chronicles) and Bill Willingham (FABLES).Deep in the woods outside of a magical kingdom, a strange group of faeries and forest creatures discover...
| Author | Sarah Vaughn |
| ISBN | 1534306846 |
I love going to a book store or library and seeing staff picks. Very often, there are great stories on display there. I was looking around my library and the past few times in there I say this story by staff at the BCPL. I picked it up. It was a good story.
This is a fantasy story in a Kingdom with magic....
| Author | Tony Cliff |
| ISBN | 1626721556 |
We're so pleased to be publishing a second volume of Delilah Dirk's adventures (and we love this one even more than the first).
This volume is especially awesome because it gives us the set-up of a main character who's basically 100% awesome -- having to go back to her home and deal with her parents,...
| Author | Faith Erin Hicks |
| ISBN | 1626721599 |
Kaidu and Rat have only just recovered from the assassination attempt on the General of All Blades when more chaos breaks loose in the Nameless City: deep conflicts within the Dao nation are making it impossible to find a political solution for the disputed territory of the City itself.
To complicate...
| Author | Tillie Walden |
| ISBN | 1250207568 |
Bea is on the run. And then, she runs into Lou.
This chance encounter sends them on a journey through West Texas, where strange things follow them wherever they go. The landscape morphs into an unsettling world, a mysterious cat joins them, and they are haunted by a group of threatening men. To...
| Author | Lorena Alvarez Gomez |
| ISBN | 1910620343 |
I had expected this to be a tale about environmental conservation, specifically wetlands. To some degree, it is, but that degree is small. This is more about the power of imagination and creation, the ability to bring life and passion into your projects, to grow something bigger than you. And also about...
| Author | Jay Asher |
| ISBN | 0448493667 |
Long ago, in a small village in the middle of a deep, dark forest, there lived a lonely, deaf girl named Maggie. Shunned by her village because of her disability, her only comfort comes from her vivid imagination. Maggie has a gift for inventing stories and dreams of one day finding her fairy-tale love.
When...
Jim Henson's The Storyteller
| Author | Roger Langridge |
| ISBN | 1936393247 |
I'm a huge fan of the original Jim Henson Storyteller series done by Jim Henson Studios. So I picked this book up with hope (and a lot of nostalgia) in my heart.
And honestly, that's probably why I didn't enjoy this comic very much. The biggest tripping point was the fact that the original series...
| Author | Lorena Alvarez Gomez |
| ISBN | 1910620130 |
Every night, tiny stars appear out of the darkness in little Sandy's bedroom. She catches them and creates wonderful creatures to play with until she falls asleep, and in the morning brings them back to life in the whimsical drawings. When a mysterious new girl appears at school, Sandy's drawings are...
| Author | Monica Gallagher |
| ISBN | 1629918032 |
Sophia Campos is only just getting used to her new life with her divorced dad and managing their business of helping ghosts, when she meets a ghost girl who changes everything. Not because she’s a ghost - but because of what it brings out in Sophia.
Soon her brother, her best friend, her old crush...
| Author | Melissa Jane Osborne |
| ISBN | 1629917699 |
16-year-old Wendy Davies crashes her car into a lake on a late summer night in New England with her two younger brothers in the backseat. When she wakes in the hospital, she is told that her youngest brother, Michael, is dead. Wendy — a once rational teenager – shocks her family by insisting that Michael...
Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal: Creation Myths, Volume 1
Part one of a three-part graphic novel prequel series delving into the origins of the Skeksis, Mystics, Gelflings, the world of Thra, and The Dark Crystal itself. Spanning a time period from thousands of years ago to right up to the start of the original film, this graphic novel epic will tell the definitive...
| Author | Sarah Vaughn |
| ISBN | 1534310584 |
Nearly a year later in the court of Harbeny, Lady Poppy and Sir Cyrenic must forge ahead without each other. Cyrenic adjusts to life after being released from the Sleepless Vow. And though Poppy has allies old and new, she buckles under the pressure to marry Lord Helder. The future looks bleak, but both...
I enjoyed this anthology. I actually preferred this second volume to the first. The art was better and so were the stories. I think there were only two where I wasn't thrilled about the art and only a few stories where I was left wanting. Considering how many are in this, that's quite impressive. There were...
