Coming from American author Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society series is a children’s book series. The story is about the adventures of four young children, Reynie Muldoon, George “Sticky” Washington, Kate Wetherall, and Constance Contraire, who are each gifted in different areas. But they have one thing in common: they are either orphans…
Written by English writer Jill Murphy, The Worst Witch is a children’s book series about Mildred Hubble, a good-hearted, but bungling young witch-in-training, who never seems to get anything right. As a very popular book series for children, The Worst Witch has been adapted multiple times: the first time in 1986 as a television film,…
Written by children’s book author Tracey West–known for her Pokémon and SpongeBob SquarePants books–the Dragon Masters series is a Scholastic book series revolving around a boy and his Dragon! The story is about Drake who, until he was chosen to train his very own dragon, never even thought dragons were real. But they are! Now,…
Written and illustrated by Rachel Renée Russell, Dork Diaries is a children’s book series about Nikki Maxwell, a misfit kid who lives with a weird family. She chronicles her life through text and art-her move to a new school, her battles with queen bee MacKenzie, and her zany adventures with her BFFs Chloe and Zoey…
Born on August 10, 1962, in Hartford, Connecticut, Suzanne Collins is an American television writer and author. She began her career in 1991 as a writer for children’s television shows, before she began to write children’s books. Her debut book, Gregor the Overlander is published in 2003. She has been named one of Time magazine’s…
Beverly Cleary (1916-2021) was an award-winning American writer of children’s and young adult fiction. In fact, she was one of America’s most successful authors, selling more than 90 million copies of her books worldwide during her long career–that began in 1950 after working as a librarian for a decade. It was during her time as…
Thanks to the popular media franchise from DreamWorks Animation consisting of three feature films, five short films, and three television series, chances are you know who are Hiccup and Toothless. But before becoming big stars on the big screen, the young Viking and his dragon were the protagonists of a series of fantasy children’s books…
Welcome to the Land of Stories, a series imagined (and written, of course) by Chris Colfer that takes Alex and Conner Bailey–and the readers–to a magic place where fairy tales are real. In this children’s adventure and fantasy book series described by its author as a modern-day fairy tale, the Bailey twins fall from the…
Originally, Ever After High is a fashion doll franchise released by Mattel in July 2013–a companion line to the Monster High dolls. Now, it is a Netflix Show and, of course, a book series published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers! First written by Shannon Hale (then Suzanne Selfors, Heather Alexander, Lisa Shea &…
American writer of children’s and young adult fiction, Beverly Cleary passed away recently (in 2021) leaving behind her popular series like the one about Henry Huggins and its spin-off series about young Ramona Quimby. In the Henry Huggins books, Beatrice, known as Beezus, was one of Henry’s friends, and her younger sister Ramona was generally…
Written by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables is a classic that spun off a popular series and a lot of TV, film, radio, and stage adaptations. It’s about the life of Anne Shirley, from childhood to motherhood and beyond. Anne is bright and quick, eager to please, talkative, and extremely imaginative….
Meet Julian, Dick, Anne, George, and Timothy. Together they are The Famous Five. Created by English author Enid Blyton, they are the stars of a series of children’s adventure novels and short stories. The group goes on numerous adventures during the school holidays. They go hiking and biking, camping, and exploring by themselves places like…
