This was a delightful addition to the Tea Dragon world. I have loved all the Katie O'Neill books I've read previously and this one is no different.

From beginning to end, this book had me enthralled. I was so ecstatic that O'Neill was creating another book in her Tea Dragon world, and this book does a wonderful job with expanding the world that she gave us in the first book.

*thank you to Netgalley, Oni Press and Katie O'Neill for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review*


4 stars.

Ohh the beauty of this is amazing! There is so much to love about this Graphic Novel. The story is so good it leaves you feeling quite happy once you have finished reading it. The illustrations are just absolutely stunning! I could spend ages just looking at the pictures. The colouring and just the artwork themselves are truly beautiful. 

I really love Middle Grade Dragon themed stories and this didn't disappoint me. This is my second book by this author and once again, she's given us a winner. Definitely recommend.

Another cute addition by Katie O’Neill. Illustrations are just as beautiful as always, making you want to live in the world she created. Loved seeing more species of Tea Dragons, each one cuter than the last.

LOVE!!! I love this book so much. The writing is perfection and the storytelling is amazing. The illustrations are just as amazing. I can't say enough good things about this book.

I can’t sing enough praises for this graphic novel! I love how beautiful this story is! The artwork is exquisite and the story is heartwarming. It’s wonderfully inclusive as well! The story represents represents people of different backgrounds and does it well. The story is a slice of life set in a world where dragons exist. The dragons, however, are small finicky creatures that have things that can be used to make tea growing off them (leaves, flowers, etc). It’s such a unique story and left me feeling very zen. I cannot wait until the next one is released so I can read that as well. I highly recommend this to everyone because there is something for everyone to enjoy.

*Received via NetGalley for review*

Sweet, gorgeous, cute, and with a great message. Sure to be a hit in any collection.

Katie O’Neill has yet again created an outstanding graphic novel.
The Tea Dragon Festival has a wonderful set of characters all wrapped in a beautiful world and a heartwarming story.
If you haven’t checked out this series, you really should. I recommend it so much!

*I received this book as an eARC from Oni Press via NetGalley. I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.*

I love all of Katie O'Neill's books! The art style accompanied with the beautiful stories make them all such a great combination. This book takes place in the same world as The Tea Dragon Society, but at a different time. It can absolutely be read separate, but there are fun references.

There is such beauty within the pages of this book. The scenery is gorgeous. The details of the world make it vast. The tea dragons are adorable! The world is so big, but we get to see such quaint, pleasant areas.

Sign language is used in this book. Katie O'Neill always finds ways to be inclusive and really show representation to a diverse audience. There are some great questions about gender. The messaging of following and recognizing your passions and strengths is throughout this book.

There's a guide to tea dragons at the end of the book. I just can not get enough tea dragons. I obviously give this book a 5/5. If you haven't read any of Katie's books, I highly recommend any of them. This is technically a prequel, but that isn't the focus of the story. It's just a fun bonus.

The graphic novel was perfect !! I loved this so much. 5 stars for sur !!! Thank to Netgalley for this e-arc in exchange of my honest opinion

I really enjoyed the verity of characters in this precious little story, and thought the way sign language was incorporated was ingenious. Whether it be deafness, gender fluidity or sexuality, all these topics were subtly included which deepened the characters by stating these subjects are not the whole of there being, just a small part of it. The themes of doing what you are good at and debating the difference between what should be a hobby, and careers adds to the uniqueness of the story. Alongside the beautiful artwork there is nothing I can criticise with this story, and I will be definitely be picking up a physical copy.

I received a digital ARC through the publisher via Netgalley though all opinions are my own and aren't influenced by receiving a copy.

This sequel was just as precious as the first book and in some ways, even more so! I don't want to give too much away but I highly recommend especially if you enjoy Dragons! I also loved that there was a representation for sign language which isn't seen very often in books.

This is a prequel to the first book which follows Rinn who is Erik's neice, a large Dragon named Aedhan who is a Guardian of the area that fell asleep about eight years ago and has recently awoken, a much younger Erik, his partner Hesekiel. Erik and Hesekiel have come to Rinn's village to visit Erik's family as well as look into the mystery of someone who appears to be putting lots of people to sleep.

There's also a Festival going on which celebrates the many blessings the town has received, lots of spoiling to the wonderful Tea Dragons and generally brings people together while also honoring Dragons in general.

Over the course of the story, Rinn realizes with the help of her new friend Aedhan that she's wonderful as she is including how important her contributions of picking many of the herbs and ingredients her friends as well as family needs and that she's generally a wonderful human being.

I loved the friendships that were developed, how sign language was seen as a natural way of communicating whether deaf or not and how all of the villagers work together to help each other out. Aedhan and Rinn are two of the sweetest and so adorable with a bond that grows over the course of the book.

I also loved the way the mystery of why people were falling asleep was handled peaceably, the food looked delicious and the story gave me the warm fuzzies. The artwork was wonderfully done and really enhanced the story. I really hope that there will be more books in this world as I'm anxious to read more plus there's dragons who have tea leaves attached to them so what's not to love!

This is the sequel to The Tea Dragon Society by Katie O’Neill and I loved this just as much as I loved the first one. This story primarily follows along with Rinn and Aedhan, who is a real dragon, and their friendship. Rinn has grown up with tea dragons but she has never met a real dragon before until the day she stumbles upon Aedhan who has been sleeping for a long time. Hesekiel and Erik from The Tea Dragon Society are also in this book and I really enjoyed getting to see more of them.

This series is the cutest graphic novel series that I have ever read. I absolutely love all the characters. There is so much diversity and all the characters have such pure good hearts that I can’t help but love them all. There was also different tea dragons introduced into this book and I seriously wish they were a real thing.

The message behind this book was of friendship and really being intentional about helping our friends through their troubles. I can’t say it enough about how loving and sweet all the characters in this book are. Also, the illustrations in this book are simply stunning. The colors, the style, the details, it is all simply so perfect.

I recommend this book to everyone. You absolutely cannot go wrong with this heartwarming graphic novel series.

My thanks to Oni Press for a digital copy via NetGalley of Katie O'Neill’s ‘The Tea Dragon Festival’ in exchange for an honest review.

This is a companion to her 2017 graphic novel, ‘The Tea Dragon Society’. It is set some years before ‘Society’ and features two characters from it during their younger years as well as introducing Rinn, an aspiring cook, and Aedhan, a young dragon of the Shining Wing clan, who is keen to prove himself as a guardian for the village of Silverleaf.

This is such an enchanting story and O’Neill has created a diverse, inclusive cast of characters that were so inspiring. She also has her characters use ASL along with voice to communicate.

Her artwork is wonderful and she uses a pastel colour palette with delicate detailing. The tea dragons themselves are adorable. I quickly fell in love with her created world.

Although this works fine as a stand alone, I was grateful that Katie’s website contains ‘The Tea Dragon Society’ in its web comic format so I could read the original tale. I would be intrigued to learn more about her non-human characters and inspirations for her art.

A charming, wonderful graphic novel that is bound to appeal to children and adults alike.

Disclaimer: I received this through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I loved this, I wish I could give it 10/5 stars, and I felt the same way about The Tea Dragon Society. I just love these soft, cute, comforting graphic novels so much.

There's tea and dragons, what more could you want. I've loved everything I've read by Katie O'Neill so far - The Tea Dragon graphic novels, Aquacorn Cove, and Princess Princess Ever After - and I'm always so excited when I see they're coming out with something new.

I cannot recommend this, along with all the others I've mentioned, enough. They're beautiful and cute and casually queer. And just leave with you with this warm feeling, they're so good?

And this one involved some sign language, which I wasn't sure how it'd come across in graphic novel but I was surprised that it did work? Obviously the english translation is there, because comics don't move, but it was fun to be able to recognize most of the signs they were shown using.

I'm going to stop here before I just keep going but imagine me going AHHHHHHHHH and that's pretty much my feelings for this book. Can't wait for my physical copy to come in the mail, and I hope one day to be blessed by a visit from a tea dragon. Preferably the mountain chamomile because they seem so fluffy and grumpy, but this changes daily if not hourly.

If you've read and enjoyed the first book then you'll be pleased to know that you can look forward to more of the same breath takin artwork and wholesome story. Equally, if this is your first foray into the world of Tea Dragons then never fear because this can absolutely be read alone no problem and is actually a prequel of sorts in that it's set before the events of the first book and includes two characters we see in the second book, but they can easily be read in any order and still compliment each other. 

The Tea Dragon Festival is filled with a brilliant cast of colourful and diverse characters, each more charming than the last, I particularly loved Aedhan and main character of sorts, Rinn, an aspiring cook who loves to gather fresh ingredients and help the people of her town. A new inclusion in this instalment which I really loved was the use of sign language which Katie has brought onto the page fantastically with the simple use of different coloured blocks of text to indicate if someone is communicating through sign and if they are signing and speaking out loud.

I was given this free review copy graphic novel at my request and have voluntarily left this review. This is the second Tea Dragon graphic novel I have read and I was not disappointed! This is seriously the cutest thing EVER! I loved the art work, the characters and the world that has been built. I cannot wait for the finished copy!

5/5 stars

*Thank you so much to NetGalley and Oni Press for allowing me the opportunity to read this amazing digital ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I am just in love with this series! This addition to the story is pure heart and has so much beauty packed into every magical illustration.

<u>Synopsis</u>
This story takes place years before "The Tea Dragon Society". It's the story of Rinn, a girl who longs to be a cooking apprentice, who goes into the woods in search of ingredients for herself and her village. On the way, she stumbles across an abandoned shrine hidden in the forest. There she finds a dilapidated home with a sleeping dragon inside and it's not the tea kind.

<u>Characters, Story & Illustrations</u>
I really loved reading about all the new characters as well as seeing some familiar faces from years before the first story. Rinn was a fun character to read as she figured out herself and what she wanted to do with her life. I really liked the addition of the new characters such as the dragon and the dream spirit which were both drawn beautifully! The mountain chamomile was one of my favorite side characters. I loved seeing him sometimes in the background of the illustrations just sitting there puffed up and grumpy. It made me smile every time! I thought the addition of sign language in parts of the book was interesting and appreciated that it was explained how it would appear before the story even began. When the characters signed, the explanation made it easy to identity and acknowledge rather than breezing over the thought bubbles. Once again, I loved the little tea dragon index at the end of the story and notes about the dragons vs. tea dragons. I always love reading the little dragon factoids about each one and it makes me love them more!

<u>Overall</u>
Overall, I loved this precious story and all of the magical illustrations. It was another beautifully drawn story by this author that was told from the heart. I feel ridiculously lucky to be granted an advanced NetGalley copy so thank you again. I cannot wait to read more from this author in the future and I especially hope she continues this series!

This is more of a companion or prequel to the Tea Dragon Society, the series could easily be read in any order without the reader loosing their understanding of the stories. You would just be introduced to some characters a little earlier.
The Tea Dragon Festival is just as gorgeous in its writing, artwork and colour palette as the Tea Dragon Society. It adds a lot more to the lore of the Tea Dragons, we meet true Dragons and we get a glimpse into the past of a couple of the characters from the Tea Dragon Society. It also maintains the same level of diversity. The inclusion of a deaf character and sign language is done in such a tasteful way, having a mix of those who communicate solely by signing and those that combine speech and signing is excellent. The message is still as heartwarming and it still leaves the reader in that beautiful calm place the first did. I am hoping that we keep getting glimpses into the world of the Tea Dragons.

Beautiful story for kids and adults. I really enjoyed the creativity and skill that went into making this delightful story. I will be getting hard copies as gifts for nieces and nephews.