Children's Book Author
Mari Mancusi
LATEST NEWS AND INFORMATION
Dawn of the Dragons, the New Dragon City prequel, is out September 2nd. Can be preordered now!
Mari is now booking school visits for the 25/26 year. She does have a few spring 25 openings left. See TEACHERS page for details.
Mari will be at the North Texas Teen Book Festival on March 1st.
Mari will be at TLA and participating in:
What's New with Texas Authors and Illustrators
Storytellers' Roundtable
Texas Tea
She will also be signing at the Disney and Little Brown booths
Mari will be at the Brazos Children's Book Festival in College Station April 5th.
Mari will be at the San Antonio Book Festival April 12th.
Sally's Lament is a New York Times and USA Today Bestseller!
New Dragon City is on the 2024/2025 Texas Bluebonnet State Reading List.
New Dragon City is on the 2024/2025 Florida Sunshine State Young Readers Award List.
New Dragon City is on the Horned Toad Tales List
New Dragon City was on the Great Stone Face NH state reading list for 23/24.
New Dragon City WON the "Surrey Schools Book of the Year."
New Dragon City has been named "One of the Top 106 Children's Books of All Time" by Reader's Digest.
New Dragon City is a Common Source Media pick.
New Dragon City has just been released in French, German and Italian. Spanish versions will be released soon. It is also available in Australia and New Zealand.
All is Found, a Frozen anthology to celebrate 10 years of Frozen is out now. Mari was the author editor on this project and also penned a story for it.
Dragon Ops was selected for Florida's SSYRA's state reading list for 2022-2023! Thank you Florida librarians!!
Dragon Ops was selected for Florida's SSYRA's state reading list for 2022-2023! Thank you Florida librarians!!
Dragon Ops was a featured selection in the Scholastic Book Fairs and Clubs. The sequel, Dragons vs. Robots, is now available from your favorite bookseller.
Core, a division of the American Library Association, announced that DRAGON OPS has made their 2021 Excellence in Children’s and Young Adult Science Fiction Notable Lists.