Series
The Wildwood Chronicles
Colin Meloy · 3 novels · 2011–2014
Colin Meloy's Wildwood Chronicles opens with Wildwood (2011), illustrated by his wife Carson Ellis, in which two Portland seventh-graders are drawn into a hidden, magical forest while trying to rescue a baby kidnapped by crows, and are swept into a larger struggle as they learn of their connection to this parallel world. Praised for its illustrations and old-fashioned book design, the trilogy continues across Under Wildwood and Wildwood Imperium.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
The Wildwood Chronicles at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2010s3
Shape
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 3 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Wildwooddarkest · most intense
- Under Wildwoodbrightest · calmest