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Summary

​Companion series to the DragonKeeper Chronicles, these allegorical-styled fantasy introduces new characters and brings back a few familiar faces in this trilogy set in the same world as DragonKeeper at an earlier time period when a sculptor unexpectedly undermines the world's foundation. ​

Stats

Genre: Tween (10-14 years) fantasy

Series length: Three books, plus companion 5-book series (The DragonKeeper Chronicles)

Violence: Light to moderate fantasy violence

Magic/Supernatural: Strong supernatural content

Romance: None in book one, light after that 

Christian/spiritual element: Strong allegorical Christian content

Recommendation: Excellent for boys or girls who fantasy or want a funny read. Also a good read aloud due to its episodic nature.

You might like this book if you liked... 
How to Train Your Dragon, The Chronicles of Narnia, or Eragon ​

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Opening Lines: 

Sir Beccaroon cocked his head, ruffled his neck feathers, and stretched, allowing his crimson wings to spread. The branch beneath him sank and rose again, responding to his weight. Moist, hot air penetrated his finery, and he held his wings away from his brilliant blue sides. 

"Too hot for company," he muttered, rocking back and forth from one scaly four-toed foot to the other on a limb of a sacktrass tree. The leaves shimmered as the motion rippled along the branch. "Where is that girl?"

The Dragons of Chiril (Dragons of Chiril, Book 1)
by Donita K. Paul

Before DragonSpell, on a different continent and a different time, a young emerlindian’s desperate decision threatens to disrupt the foundation of the world.
 
Tipper has been caring for her family’s estate for years now, ever since her father disappeared, making a living by selling off his famous artwork. Then she learns that three statues she sold were carved from an ancient foundation stone, and the fabric of her reality is crumbling.
 
She must free her father and save the world. But she can’t do it alone.
 
Her ragtag band of adventurers includes Beccaroon, a giant parrot; Bealomondore, an aristocratic young artist; a handsome dragonkeeper prince; the Wizard Fenworth; and the tumanhofer librarian Librettowit. Together they travel through valleys and kingdoms and consort with purveyors of good and agents of evil to find and reunite the missing statues. Will they learn to rely on Wulder’s grace and guidance along the way?

(Previously released as The Vanishing Sculptor)

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Opening Lines: 

Bealomondore stood in the doorway of the darkened hall. Shadows hid the statue he'd been ordered to steal. 

His heart told him to retreat. His feet wouldn't move. But the kimen, whose wildest flying lock of hair reached only to the tumanhofer's knee, insisted that the statue be stolen. 

The artist cast the kimen a menacing look. The rude little man had startled him out of a sound sleep and proposed this ridiculous escapade. Bealomondore only wanted to go back to his chamber. In the middle of the night, the proper place for an aristocratic tumanhofer was his bed. 

Dragons of the Valley (Dragons of Chiril, Book 2)
by Donita K. Paul

War threatens the peaceful land of Chiril… can one painter-turned-reluctant-swordsman really help?
 
With an invasion of her country imminent, Tipper Schope is drawn into a mission to keep three important statues from falling into the enemy’s clutches. Her friend, the artist Bealomondore, helps her execute the plan, and along the way he learns to brandish a sword rather than a paintbrush. 

As odd disappearances and a rash of volatile behavior sweep Chiril, no one is safe. A terrible danger has made his vicious presence known: The Grawl, a hunter unlike any creature encountered before. 

To restore their country, Tipper, Bealomondore, and their party must hide the statues in the Valley of the Dragons and find a way to defeat the invading army. When it falls to the artistic Bealomondore to wield his sword as powerfully and naturally as a paintbrush, will he answer Wulder’s call for a champion?

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Opening Lines: 

Ellie sat on her favorite boulder and looked Tak right in the eyes, telling him what was on her mind. "Gramps shouldn't have taught me to read."

Tak responded as he usually did when he received Ellie's confidences. He lowered his head, placing it on her knee for a rub. 

Ellie obliged her pet, stroking the white hair between his nubby horns with one hand while digging in the pocket of her homespun pinafore with the other. The mountain breeze toyed with the paper she withdrew. With difficulty, she smoothed the small poster out on her other knee. Dirty and wrinkled, it still made her heart beat a little fast. 

Royal Wedding and Coronation
Princess Tipper and Prince Jayrus, Dragonkeeper and Paladin
All invited to the celebration

Dragons of the Watch (Dragons of Chiril, Book 3)
by Donita K. Paul

Trapped in a forgotten city, bound by secrets, Ellie and Bealomondore must enlist the dragons of the watch to find freedom.

Ellie knows exactly where she is going. She just wants to experience the pomp and circumstance of a royal wedding, then settle into a simple life with a country husband.

With too many choices, Bealomondore’s future is a tangle of possibilities. He is respected, well-known, and admired among the elite of Chiril, but Wulder demands he narrow his focus and follow his Creator, one step at a time.

​Both Ellie and Bealomondore’s plans are thwarted when they find themselves lost in an isolated city. As they discern the needs of a group of wild children and a very old man, clues began to surface and a bigger picture is revealed. With the help of the dragons of the watch, can the two tumanhofers find the way out—and perhaps discover their connection to something greater than themselves?