annieb123's Review of A Ranger's Guide to Glipwood Forest (Wingfeather Saga)

by Andrew Peterson

ECPA BESTSELLER • This illustrated guide to the always mysterious and sometimes treacherous Glipwood Forest is an invaluable resource for first-time visitors, repeat travelers, and all fans of the Wingfeather Saga, with more than one million copies sold!

A Ranger’s Guide to Glipwood Forest expands the legend and lore of this treacherous land of fatal flora and fanged beasts—and the history of the first adventurers daring enough to brave the forest depths. Through detailed line art, maps, and directions, travelers can safely marvel at the majestic glipwood trees, poke around the (possibly haunted) Anklejelly Cavern, dip their toes into the Mighty River Blapp (if they dare!), and avoid falling off a cliff edge into the Dark Sea of Darkness and being swallowed by a sea dragon.

Both longtime Wingfeather fans and readers new to the series will be enthralled, tickled, delighted, and occasionally disturbed by never-before-known nuggets, familiar factoids, and all-new stories about the forest and the brave rangers who made passage into its dark depths possible. Don’t attempt an exploration, journey, or meander through Glipwood without it!

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ON THE EDGE OF THE DARK SEA OF DARKNESS • NORTH! OR BE EATEN • THE MONSTER IN THE HOLLOWS • THE WARDEN AND THE WOLF KING • WINGFEATHER TALES • PEMBRICK’S CREATUREPEDIA • A RANGER’S GUIDE TO GLIPWOOD FOREST

Originally posted on my blog Nonstop Reader.

A Ranger's Guide to Glipwood Forest is a wonderfully illustrated atlas tie-in to the Glipwood Forest, setting for the Wingfeather Saga by Andrew Peterson. Released 7th Nov 2023 by Waterbrook & Multnomah, it's 128 pages and is available in hardcover, audio, and ebook formats.

This is a really lovely companion/support guide to the narrative series, and provides a lot (a LOT) of background info and world building. The author is one of the original members of the Glipwood Official Rangers Guild.

This is a nice addition for all the fans of the series and is beautifully and intricately illustrated by Aedan Peterson. The illustrations (pen & ink, and color, electronically rendered) are gorgeous and full of details. The map drawings are serviceable and clear, the interior incidental art is often multi-layered and labyrinthine in detail (see cover).

The author/creator are clearly knowledgeable and appealingly nerdy and immersed in the sandbox world.

The audiobook format has a run time of 1 hour 19 minutes. It's unclear how successful such a graphic heavy book will translate to an audio format. It's narrated by the author.

Four and a half stars. Definitely a good choice for public or school library acquisition, home use, and gift giving purposes.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

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