By Tui T. Sutherland
The first run of Wings of Fire as full-color graphic novels, boxed — an epic dragon war for a child who reads comics faster than you can buy them.
Five dragonets are raised in secret under a mountain, hatched to fulfill a prophecy meant to end a long, brutal war between the dragon tribes of Pyrrhia. The war is kept burning by three sister queens who each claim the same throne. When the dragonets are stolen out from under their guardians, they set off to find their own families and pick their own side, one tribe at a time, and they start to learn that the grown dragons who raised them were far from kind and that the prophecy may not mean what everyone assumes. This boxed set collects the graphic-novel versions of the first books, with Mike Holmes' full-color art turning Tui T. Sutherland's dragon world into fast, vivid comics.
You know the child who'll finish a fat graphic novel in an afternoon and ask for the next one before dinner? This is built for that appetite. The Wings of Fire world is big, with seven tribes, warring queens, secret powers, and plenty of betrayal, and the comic version keeps all of it moving, full-color and easy to fall into, boxed so there's a stack ready to go. A child who loved Amulet and wants a real war running underneath the adventure will settle right in.