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Greetings, Featherheads! I know there hasn’t been a lot going on at the site here in the last few weeks, but there has been work going on behind the scenes. Cool stuff is happening.

Greetings, dear Featherheads! You may be interested to note that there is an opportunity upon us just now—an invitation, in fact, to help launch the next two Wingfeather books! The whole series is being reprinted in beautiful hardcover with brand-new cover art and illustrations. The first two are out now—I hope you have seen them!—and […]

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My dear Flabbits, Featherheads, and Fendril-riders, I have been so glad and so honored to be your librarian. Over the last five years it has been a delight to watch you develop friendships, create worlds together, and discuss everything under the sun, from Wingfeather and other books, to dead languages and silly games, to good […]

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Greetings, dearest Featherheads! (I don’t remember where that name came from, but I like it.) As you know, the new editions of books three and four are releasing in September, which means the team is working hard to get the series marketed to as many people as possible. Many of you who frequent this blog […]

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David Rice over at Fathom (“a digital platform that compels people to seek out the depths of Christian faith”) wrote a compelling little piece about the Wingfeather Saga earlier this month. In it, he talks about some of the formative value of stories. A good story can situate one rightly in the world. A good […]

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I stumbled across something super cool today! Did you know that LEGO builders can submit product ideas for review by official designers? Well, there’s currently a fan-designed scene from The Warden and the Wolf King collecting votes for review.

A mystery reviewer known as The Book Lover recently wrote a lovely review of the first two books of the Wingfeather Saga. Here’s a snippet: If the first book is the bridge that takes you to the elf-land, the second book, North! Or Be Eaten, is the tale that awakens and gives you the light […]

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We have all felt frustrated and worried and sometimes a little lost during “these uncertain times,” haven’t we? Quarantine and masks and injustice and protests… and in the midst of it, life goes on. Some of you may be graduating and trying to figure out what’s next in a world that looks very different from […]

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Shhh—Andrew’s birthday is on Thursday, and we’re having a surprise party. DON’T TELL. (We do this every year. He might be catching on.) If you want to come, it’ll be in the forum. We’ll set up a place to share gifts of encouragement, jokes, and appreciation, and then when he gets here… we POUNCE.

The inimitable Joe Sutphin, illustrious illustrator of the new hardcover editions, has just released a trove of art prints for us! Maps of Glipwood and Skree, character cards, six different bookmarks—and this! Have you ever seen anything more beautiful than a shelf full of books? What other curios do you spot on those shelves? And […]

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