Wingfeather Tales (The Wingfeather Saga)

I'm going to be honest. I bought these books on a whim and didn't really pay attention to the age range. It's been a bad habit of mine for years which is why I usually buy books from the library instead of full price. Sometimes I get a dud and sometimes I fall in love with a new author.This series is definitely in the love category now, but it had to work for it.When I was reading the first book I was like:"Fangs of Dang? "Dark Sea of Darkness? Totatoes? Oof, I think I've gone too young this time. I bet I can guess the twist.... YUP! Called it!"But the chapters were going by fast enough that I figured I might as well finish the book and each time I dove back in I found myself reading bigger and bigger chunks of the story.Next thing I know I'm wrapping up book 3 and I'm eager to see what's next because the story went places I wasn't expecting.I guess the point of what I'm saying might be that this series has entertainment value for both young readers and older readers and I would fully encourage everyone to give it a chance if they were sitting on the fence about it.

Bought this set for my 14 yr. old grand daughter and she was very excited about ti

This is has become one of my series! The wit in the writing kept me delighted and the story kept me hooked.

My husband and I read finished the Wingfeather Tales last night. The stories are greatly varied in style and content, which should be expected as each one is written by a different author!I highly recommend having read the entire Saga and Pembrick's Creaturepedia before reading The Tales or many things won't be funny or meaningful without the background. The Creaturepedia is a MUST for the story by Jennifer Trafton, or it will be just plain crazy and confusing. After reading the Creaturepedia, my husband and I were thoroughly prepared and LOVED that particular tale. Jennifer completely captured "Ollister's" style!Of course, Andrew Peterson's tale is perfect, an adventure in Yorsha Doon! (I loved learning more about the world of Aerwiar.) And a reappearance of a beloved character...A. S. Peterson's tale may have been my favorite though... It's hard to choose, but I was completely caught up in this story of Podo's dragon hunting day and the beginning of Yurgen's hatred for him. "Biddies," "Huggables," and "Sqryms" are now ridiculously common terms around our house.Unfortunately, I have not read N.D. Wilson's books, but knew about the Raggant from the Creaturepedia and was familiar with the 100 Cupboards concept, which helped in his short story about young Podo and the cupboards.Jonathan Rogers ballad was fun to read and a real treat considering it is from a footnote in "On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness."McKelvey's "short" story is about 150 pages long. Seriously! What a gift! It could have been a completely separate novel, but we get it here with the other 5 tales. Now honestly, this story has the longest sentences I've ever read. There are many paragraphs with a period at the end. The verb tense also changed at the end of the story. But, that is style stuff, and someone may enjoy what I didn't... As for the content, WOW! This is good stuff right here! My husband and I talked a bit about the man's hurt and self-righteousness, his anger and all he had to work through, the way his loss and grief lead him to become numb to other's grief and even cause it in cases. It's a truth that hurt people hurt people. It does have a surprisingly sweet ending and wraps up very well.In short, these Tales are sure to please Featherheads, and teach some valuable lessons along the way!

Bought this series for my 10 year old niece. She thoroughly enjoyed it.

About three years ago, my family and I were stationed overseas when we first heard of the Wingfeather Saga. Andrew Peterson had done an interview for Tabletalk Magazine that I happened to be digging into (it might have been dated from a few years before that?) but I saw that he had written children’s books from a Christian worldview so thought it would be fun for me to read to our three Boy’s. Well we finished the first within a few days and had to wait another few weeks to get the other two printed at that time. We flew through them and had to wait for the fourth and final book The Warden and the Wolf King. All of which we enjoyed greatly!! Now that we are back in the States, we have been reading other good literature, but was gladly surprised when we received an email advertising The Wingfeather Tales, we immediately pre-ordered and have started reading…Awesome! I am purposely only reading half of each story per night to relish it for our children (and for me too) and they (we) have been greatly blessed. Just finished Willow Worlds by N.D. Wilson tonight and looking forward to the next one…HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!! They are such a blast to read as a family!!! Thanks and enjoy!

Author has an excellent sense of humor, enjoyable for youth and adults a like. Looking forward to the television series based on these books put out by Angle Studios.

My kid devoured this book in one day. He is now jumping to #2.

Another win for Andrew Peterson. Both my sons (ages 10&9) and I loved this book and I definitely cried at one point reading it out loud to them.