This was almost more adorable than the last one! I loved that there was a deaf character and that they gave you places to learn ASL from! These stories make my heart swell with happiness.

Thank you netgalley for the opportunity to read this before the publication date.

5 cute stars

This is one of the most precious, most wholesome things that I've ever read and I will definitely be pulling this sweet graphic novel out again on a gloomy day.

Following Katie O'Neill's smash hit The Tea Dragon Society, The Tea Dragon Festival expands on the world of tea dragons and the villagers who care for them in this sweet story that can be read as a standalone companion.

Rinn is an aspiring cook in her village, and the niece to Erik—one of the characters we met in The Tea Dragon Society. One day, while foraging for mushrooms in the enchanted woods, Rinn discovers a sleeping dragon. She accidentally wakes him up, and finds out that he has been in an enchanted sleep for 80 years!Aedhan, the dragon, is quick to realize how much of the village's life he's missed and is eager to learn more from Rinn. Cue the cutest dragon/human exploits to ever occur in a graphic novel.

I loved so many aspects of this novel. But a few of them stand out, including the wonderful diversity in representations of gender, race, and disabilities. One of the characters relies on American Sign Language to communicate and several of the dialogue scenes reflect this character's ASL and the community's integration of that form of communication. Discussions of gender and sexuality are done with a deft hand, and are easily understood by any age level—I continue to love the author's ability to paint such a loving portrait of acceptance in all forms.

I can't wait for the next installment in this blissfully happy and uncomplicated world. More dragons, please!

This book is such a delight in so many ways! Katie O'Neill's art is so absolutely lush and absorbing that you just want to move into her stories and stay awhile. It's a wonderful thing to find a story so utterly positive and beautiful. This is a gentle story, but still one worth spending time in - it focuses on family, food, and finding yourself - all themes that resonate, particularly when paired together in such a charming fashion. I will definitely be recommending this book!

The Tea Dragon Festival is a whimsical graphic novel packed with stunning illustrations and an adorable storyline. This is the first graphic novel I have read that includes sign language in the illustrations and I absolutely loved it! I enjoyed being transported into this world full of magical dragons, spectacular home cooked meals, adorable tea dragons and amazingly breath taking landscapes!

This was my first read from Katie O'Neill and I was afraid of starting from the second book. However, I enjoyed this one. The art was too cute for words.

This book was so cute and adorable. The story was also very nice and wholesome. The art was so colorful and fun and cute. Yeah, this was cute and totally worth the hype it's been getting.

I got an ARC of this from Oni Press on NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. It comes out September 17th!

After reading The Tea Dragon Society, I couldn't wait to get my hands on the sequel. It's cute, funny, heartwarming, and absolutely adorable. Both volumes are super quick to read but are also packed with important life lessons.

I recommend this to everyone!

I absolutely loved this. It was so whimsical, and the story flowed really well. I loved the way this graphic novel built on Hese and Erik's relationship from the previous book. It was just brilliant, and it made me really happy to read. I really want to get more of Katie O'Neill's work!

5 Stars, ARC acquired from Oni Press through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Wholesome, sweet, and what it means to be loved within a community. I just loved this graphic novel and the art is just fabulous!

It just filled me with warmth and happiness!

With diverse characters, and Hearing impaired rep woven within, this is a novel not, only for children but adults as well.

This was the perfect sequel, or should I say prequel, to The Tea Dragon Society. I loved learning more about Erik's family, his and Hesekiel's past, and more new characters! Rinn and Aedhan were so cute, and they learned so much from each other. I can't wait to see if more comes from this series! And I'm very excited for September!

I was provided this graphic novel (as an advanced reader copy) by NetGalley. All views expressed in this review are my own.

This was just as cute as The Tea Dragon Society, to which this is a companion and sequel. You don't have to have read the first book in order to read this one, but I would recommend it just because they're both good. This gives us extra backstory into two characters, but mostly focuses on other characters while keeping those two as minor characters (but it does show off their adventuring days). Once again there is mlm rep as well as disability rep, with a deaf character and multiple characters using sign language. Definitely a lovely expansion into the world.

Rinn lives in a village with her grandmother and creatures called Tea Dragons. It's a “gatherer society” the inhabitants forage for mushrooms, roots and leaves. They drink tea and make merriment. Everyone knows sign language. While on an errand to gather herbs for her grandmother, Rinn encounters a dragon which is larger than she'd ever imagined. The dragon is big, beautiful, handsome with angels’ wings and a clean smile. We learn the dragon’s name is “Aehdan” and he has been asleep for many years due to an enchantment from an unknown creature who is still at large. When Uncle Erik shows up with his companion, Hesekiel, motives become apparent and come full circle.

This was an absolutely delightful book by the author of THE DRAGON TEA SOCIETY. You do not have to read the first one to understand the second. I wrote down a list of ideas that sparked my imagination-- gender-fluid dragons, barley tea festivals, and memory food (like something out of a Harry Potter book). Personally, any mention of barley tea is nostalgic and will immediately warm me to the book. There’s something comforting and familiar about the illustrations as well. The Tea Dragons resemble Pokémon except they wander around asking for food, begging for attention and have no power. They're adorable pets--their only commonality to the dragons is one ancestor. The various breeds are mountain chamomile, marshmallow, and fennel. The pictures of food are colorful shapes and have the consistency of Asian food. The list of sign language resources at the back of the book was a bonus I didn't expect.

I can’t to wait to see what Katie O’Neill will come out with next. THE TEA DRAGON FESTIVAL will appeal to children and adults alike. Target ages are elementary school students and older kids, especially those who are reluctant readers.

Thanks to Oni Press for the digital ARC through NetGalley.

This loose prequel to The Tea Dragon Society features Hesekiel and Erik in their younger days. It's a beautifully drawn, gentle tale of friendship and magic with the adorable tea dragons and this time, a full size dragon! Fans of Katie O'Neill's other work will not be disappointed. It's also the first time I've seen a character in a comic/graphic novel using sign language, which was pretty cool.

I have seen the Tea Dragon Festival described as a gentle fantasy and that description is perfectly apt. The art here is beautiful and the story is gentle and quiet. I typically wouldn’t buy a graphic novel geared toward younger readers for my academic library, but I am probably going to make an exception and recommend this one, largely because I think there will be interest in a graphic novel with a non-binary protagonist and an important secondary character who is deaf and communicates using sign language.

I’d give these books five stars on illustrations alone, but the stories are adorable too. I’m glad this was a prequel because I was able to see how the Society was created and some of the younger versions of the characters. This one included sign language, which was inclusive and neat to see applied in a graphic novel format!

You'll see me with a tattoo of the scenery from this series at some point, I'm 100% sure of it.

Katie O'Neill is an auto-buy. Her stories are so heartfelt and the art is just absolutely stunning. Although geared for younger children, I still would recommend this graphic novel (and all of her works) to people of all ages. Reading a Katie O'Neill graphic novel feels like getting a hug, or sitting in a cozy chair sipping some calming tea. I cannot express how much I love her work,

This book takes you onto a travel to the tea dragon society and the festival they are planning. This book runs against everything you as an adult reader might normally expect from a book like a strong plot line, a conflict or a mystery that needs solving, all these kind of things.

You will not find anything of this in this book, instead you live through a moment in time that happens before during and after the tea dragon festival.

You meet an interesting community living and thriving in the woods sharing their place with the tea dragons. There are ever so interesting diverse individual characters and visitors popping in on a quest of their own and the main character finds some answers during this time of the tea dragon festival.

When I was finished I was pondering if this book was not too soft, too positive. But, I also had to admit, it took me to a place where I just could rest and be and enjoy this moment living in this world that unfolded in front of my eyes. A place where you can imagine people living peacefully alongside each other, caring for each other and cooperation being the way that each one has agreed upon. Imagination is the place where it all starts.

This is a book that is best cherished in physical form, and owned, so you can return to it as many times as you wish.

The art in this book is amazing. It has a very specific colour palate which I loved. The thought, love and care that has gone into each of the many frames/images speaks for itself, I could feel it coming out of each page, and I was reading an eARC from the publisher in return of an honest review.

Thank you to the publisher and katie O'neill for sending me an arc of this graphic novel! I really enjoyed it, it made me smile and laugh and I want another one! Can we get a third one?? 5/5 stars!(:

One of my favorite graphic novels is The Tea Dragon Society. When I saw that this was available for request on NetGalley, I jumped the chance to request this book. The magic, the dragons, everything about this book made this book such a fast read. One of my favorite things about this book was the fact that it used sign language as part of the storytelling. It's something that was so beautiful to see. Shows all the diversity and inclusion, besides sexuality.

The illustrations of this story was just as beautiful as The Tea Dragon Society. Just eye popping art. One of the reasons that I have been very into Katie O'Neil's books.

Overall, I wanted to try and read all of Katie O'Neil's books. This just upped that edge a little bit more.

This graphic novel was precious and wholesome and cute and lovely and diverse and I could literally go on and on about how wonderful it was. I think anyone can read it,people of all ages. And the art style was so beautiful! I now need to read everything by Katie O'Neill.
Thank you to netgalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.