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Fantasy Novels & Graphic Novels

5 reasons to read + Character mini art 🦋5 stars 🌟 Very beautiful, true, and sad. The color palette is perfect for the art style, design and emotion of this story. A life from birth to adulthood. Navigating the hardships of being between cultures, in China and Toronto. A caring father and a mother with mental issues. The stigma and the switch to a more understanding (we hope) society that helps and accepts help. Very relatable, doesn't matter what ethnicity we are. Happy Rel

5 reasons to read ☝️ 🌞We had a great Saturday, before the thunderstorm arrived, making damages in the suburbs we are lucky that this corner of the lake doesn't get that much damage. An outdoor read for the lake walk. 👉For those who love books that deal with family and social issues but also connect to and heal from nature. ✔️ The King Coyote Outdoor wildlife #KingCoyote #TopplingStacksTours #RachealMeyerJones#NorthStarEditions @topplingstackstours @executive_auntie 5 star

🦋 Kiki Service Delivery Book 1 available, Book 2 releases 2026 August, book 3 2027 🦋

Books I've read so far April

​ For today’s #TuesdayArt I’m diving back into the pages of the Whisperers & Keepers trilogy. It's been an emotional journey writing the end. Drawing characters and sketching locations have helped me to bring it all together. ​I often get asked which character was the hardest to draw/write —for me, it was definitely Jade's story of loss, trauma, sacrifice... ️ Which of these three characters catches your curiosity? The Queen, the Hunter, or the Mage? Whisperers & Keepers vo

🦋 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗔𝗜𝗥𝗬 𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗧🧚‍♀️✨ ​Have you heard of Fairy Rings? I tried to summon one today, but I think I should have used 🍄 instead of crystals. Instead of taking me to the Faerie world, the ritual brought the characters to me instead 🤯 ​'Forgive Me Not' by Mari Costa is a vibrant, cozy, and hilarious sapphic journey. As a fellow Portuguese creator, seeing this level of storytelling and scenery makes me want to jump right into the pages. ​𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗶�

🦋It's Monday, spot the book tradition: One book will teach me to make a crocheted red dragon One or two into perilous adventure One with a samurai ghost, nope, it's not the one with the samurai on the cover. Spotted any? Eclectic haul for my TBR mountain books ascension quest. Some I bought, some I got ________________________ Prose, Art and Photography by Vanessa Bettencourt Crafted by hand. No AI generation Www.thevioletwest.com Thank you publishers for the #gift

🌄𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗩𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗢𝗙 𝗚𝗢𝗟𝗗𝗘𝗡 𝗦𝗣𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗦 🌅 📜 As a former teacher but always one at heart, artist and storyteller, I welcome an eclectic source of stories and worlds. ✍️ When I write I want the characters to have as many different perspectives, opinions, and core foundations of beliefs, whether I agree with them or not, whether they are heroes, morally grey, or villains, my goal is to make them authentic. ⏳️Historical fiction often brings ghosts of the past wit

5 Stars Simon and Schuster Get it here, April 14th release This new world views humans as an invasive species, but is the flora really our enemy? An amazing future dystopian middle-grade adventure with great character development. It follows a child carrying so much knowledge she is afraid to speak, moving from silence and submission to rebellion, action, and bravery on behalf of humankind. ​I loved the little sidekick and also the Catalog. He is the best, always speaking in

CLOUD PUPPY: The Pup Days of Summer by Kelly Leigh Miller and Simon & Schuster (Atheneum) 5 stars 🌟 This is my favorite volume. It combines two of my top super top favorite things (plus cute/kawaii art): Summer (summer camp with best friends) and Amusement Park!! SO relatable, not only is the art on each page therapeutic goodness, it just puts a smile on our faces... We have relatable feelings and fears, thoughts and doubts that true friends can ease. The chapters are satisf

𝗘𝗫𝗖𝗟𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗩𝗘 ​𝗧𝗢𝗣 𝗦𝗘𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗧 𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗖𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬: 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗕𝗜 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗢𝗖𝗢𝗟 📡 ​Reporter Vanessa here with a massive update from the Webtoon archives! While the chaos in Volume 4 of unOrdinary is reaching a breaking point, my investigation has uncovered something truly exclusive. ​🚨 THE HEADLINE: The Hardcover Edition contains a hidden Chibi feature that you won't find in paperback editions! (Check the broadcast for the visual proof). 😆👆 💣​The Mission:

I'll be reviewing this one soon. This is a Macmillan print, and it's already available. Get it from your local bookshop to support local businesses. Official site here. "A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE Global Youth Confront the Climate Crisis By Meera Subramanian with Danica Novgorodoff illustrated by Danica Novgorodoff A Better World Is Possible is an inspiring and informative graphic novel for a young adult audience on climate change and what you can do about it. As climate

"From Michelle Rial, the writer of viral favorite Am I Overthinking This?, comes a quirky and delightful picture book exploring multiple early-learning concepts through simple graphic charts and graphs Little charts for big hearts! Through boldly illustrated timelines, pie charts, bar graphs, and Venn diagrams, young readers will learn about colors, opposites, shapes, feelings, and much more in this unconventional STEM picture book with the sweetest ending ever. Michelle Rial

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5 stars Brilliant. Perfect for a director like Wes Anderson. Simply put: the mean magnata dies and leaves his kids to deal with all from politics, business, bureaucracy, and inner lack of love or trauma. The author gives us multiple POVs, plus a narrator who calls themselves God because this voice is omniscient and will tell us with a cynical, bitter, dark humor tone that the heirs are all rotten to the core. The entire novel is us as readers falling in love with three a@$hol

5+ Love this author's writing style and humor. Couldn't miss this one, told from the point of view of a three-headed dragon (four, but there was a loss). Bottomhead is naive, wants breakfast and head scritches, Centralhead is the brains, and wants to infiltrate human society to take them down. Upperhead is convinced he is a human stuck in a dragon's head and should go back to procrastinating, as all good humans do. The book starts with hilarious moments, centralhead is amazin

Releasing tomorrow April 7th 5 stars Loved this book and with get my hands on a copy soon, hopefully my local bookstore will have signed copies, fingers crossed). The author creates such an amazing world and powers, although she is a brutal assassin, she has a lot to lose and we never feel she's safe. Some aspects are predictable like betrayals but it's just part of the world kicking our main character down when she's already low and weak (but not that weak). She is a lost sa

🎨Made a Paper Diorama miniature using only paper, toilet paper roll, watercolor and markers. Marty Moose is a fantastic Chapter book series. It's his first day as a postmouse and he wants to make his aunt proud. It's not easy when someone means to sabotage his day. Thank you @candlewickpress for the copy Video here 👉 Hilarious 👉 Great lesson of resilience 👉 Amazing artwork Find book here My miniature: 🔸️Cut 1 inch of a roll or any size you want to make the larger the eas

This Book will be released soon. April 23rd 2026 , get book because of the cover, pair it with audio. I'm sure it will make it more immersive. Publisher: Little Brown Get book here I read an advanced digital copy with #netgalley and the publisher. My review: So awesome. 5+ A girl who loves isolation in her family house in the woods goes through a terrible journey and coming of age process of discovering terrible things within the people she trusts most. Very feminist, but per

What a hilarious series: Is this a fun idea? Adding my cartoons on top of my videos? Let me know 😆😆😆 Couldn't resist. Drew some characters. Found this one in a second hand bookshops in Chicago near my house and had such a great time Perfect for fans of 👉 Fantasy Humor Satire 👉 Monty Python 👉Terry Pratchett (which i never read, so ashamed) 👉 Hilarious subversion of tropes Cartoons by me. @delreybooks @delilahsdawson @kevinhearne #killthefarmboy