Hello Book Dragons!  We have curated a list of our absolute favourite graphic novels so that we can share them with you and hopefully, add a few things to your TBRs! The Girl From The Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag https://uk.bookshop.org/a/10722/9781338540574 This is a beautiful LGBTQ+ read about a romance found between a mermaid and a human. The illustrations are so serene and delicate and you can't help but feel a sense of peace when reading it. You will fall in love with the characters and their journey and you will most definitely want more by the end of it. Words can't describe how heart-warming this tale is.  War of the Worlds: Unicorns vs. Mermaids by Benjamin Harper https://uk.bookshop.org/a/10722/9781398239654 Now, if you want something super fun and super cute, this is your next read! Not only is it a retelling of a classic sci-fi story, it has unicorns and mermaids! The artwork is outstanding and the reworking of the plot to suit the different species is incredible. Yo...

A Journey from Redundancy to Walking in the Welsh Landscape   In 2012, Julie Brominicks left her teaching job at the Centre for Alternative Technology for a new life exploring and writing about the Welsh countryside. Originally from Shrewsbury, she’d spent school holidays in Wales and studied at Aberystwyth University, before winding up at CAT. She was in Wales, but not (she thought) quite of it. When the offer of redundancy came, she took the opportunity to step aside from teaching and get to know her adopted home. This took the form of a walk around Wales, following the coastal path and the Glyndwr way along the English border. Taken in short sections over a year and a half, sometimes with her fiancé Rob (they get married during a break halfway through) but often alone, and then marinaded in years of research and reflection, the journey takes the reader not just around present-day Wales – or rather Cymru, as she uses Welsh placenames throughout – but deep into history, culture an...

  ‘I imagined the flow of energy from the mother trees as powerful as the ocean tide, as strong as the sun’s rays, as irrepressible as the wind in the mountains, as unstoppable as a mother protecting her child.’ Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree. On a rainy Sunday I took a camera and went to Llandre churchyard near Aberystwyth in search of a 1000 year old yew, possibly one of the oldest trees in West Wales. I had been reading ‘Finding the Mother Tree’ published in 2021 by Suzanne Simard, a Canadian Forest Ecologist at the University of British Columbia, and wanted to see this lonely yew that had stood through so many years, standing beside these graves. The book had given me a renewed sense of wonder about these aged trees, what they have seen, and what they can teach us. Our native common yew can live the longest of all the UK's native tree species with individual trees able to reach an incredible 3,000 years of age. They are defined as ‘ancient’ from around 900 years m...