The Tea Dragon Festival is the second book that follows the cuteness overload of tea dragons! The grumpy mountain chamomile may be the best thing ever. In this story the main heroine finds a dragon that has been asleep for almost 100 years and wakes them up. This book is about life, family, and being yourself! It is awesomeness. While we get new characters that were not in the first book, this book still has heart and everything that you loved from the first volume. Kids and grownups both will love this book. It is a first purchase for all libraries that serve children. Enjoy!

Even if this story wasn't sweet, and lovely and enjoyable, the artwork alone would be worth the admission.

This is the second book in the Tea Dragon series, but it is not necessary to read the first book, although characters reoccur from the first book, you don't need to know this. This story is set in a slightly different area that keeps tea dragons around.

The basic story is that of a dragon that went to sleep, mysteriously and missed taking care of Rinn's village.

Rinn, who discovers the dragon while looking for wild plants, explains that it is ok. He is here now, and that is fine. Live in the moment.
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Wonderful book. I love the use of sign langugue, that is used because one of the characters is deaf. This is just accepted, and Rinn has to explain it to the dragon.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.

These books are so stinking adorable and I love them so much. I love tea dragons (they are so cute!) and the lore that they have. I love the inclusiveness that I see in her work, in this one there is a deaf character, not to mention characters of color throughout. The stories are just lovely heart-warming tales involving personal connection.

The illustrations are beautiful, vibrant, and expressive. I can’t express how lovely the are in this book is-I would own this book just to flip through an look at all the beautiful artwork.

I feel so blessed to have been able to dive back into this world so soon. Last month I absolutely fell in love with these precious little dragons and the people around them. It has become one of my favorite graphic novel series ever!

The Tea Dragon Festival is more like a prequel to The Tea Dragon Society, but I am so glad we got to see some familiar faces, plus meet some new ones. This story was just as magical. I loved the representation (especially the sign language aspect!! I wish there was more of that in graphic novels)! To me, this world and the stories within it could be endless. So, it's perfect.

Give me more, please.

A heart warming book just like the first Tea Dragon graphic novel! The artist's illustration style is absolutely lovely and her stories always include a sense of acceptance and love.

The Tea Dragon Festival is an outstanding little story - so gentle, lovely, warm, pretty. It makes me very dreamy.

It's really nice that this second part is a bit longer than the first installement in the verse and also shows a very different narrative and new characters, while being set in the same world with the same beautiful aesthetic and still some familiar faces. There's so much to love about it.

Personally I liked the first book a tiny bit better, but I don't think it is possible for anyone to NOT enjoy them both thoroughly. And this one also gets a lot of plus points for the sweet and interesting inclusion of sign language.
I really hope there's more to come for this series.

Recommended for tea lovers and dragon lovers and aesthetic admirers, but also all of your friends, your family, your neighbors, everyone's kids and grandmas and lovers and your sworn enemies.

I will be more thoroughly reviewing this book on my blog at the URL below, but I was thrilled to receive an ARC of this book, and it did not disappoint. Especially excited for the positive disability representation, body diversity represented in the art, mixed/chosen family structures, and genderqueer representation. Thank you so much.

This story is so beautiful and the art is gorgeous, and together they are magical! I just love the sense of love, friendship, and family that they provide.

Thank you NetGalley for an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Tea Dragon Society was my favorite book of the year when it first came out and I knew that I had to get my hands on Tea Dragon Festival. This book is just as charming as the first. The artwork is captivating and gorgeous. While I usually fly through graphic novels, I had to savor this one over two days. The best description I can give is that this book, and the one before it, are nurturing to the soul. I always feel better after reading it because of the gentle language used and the representation that is true to life. This is a must read for all humans and tea dragon alike!

ARC provided by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review!
Thanks for the opportunity to review this book!

5/5
I will never be disappointed by anything by Katie O'Neill.

This is yet another beautifully illustrated, incredibly wholesome story.
It has deaf representation, and a community that uses ASL to communicate!
It's awesome and I absolutely love the diversity Katie interweaves into her books. Her illustrations are as gorgeous as ever! Can't wait to pick up a finished copy in September!

Katie O'Neill can do no wrong! Her books are always so beautiful and touching without being over the top. I especially loved the message in this one about how just because something comes easily for you, it doesn't mean it has no value. Effortlessly inclusive by showing people of all colors and normalizing queerness and sign language usage - this book rocks! I'm gonna need like a gazillion more just like this, please! :)

As usual, Katie O'Neill delivers a heartwarming story wrapped in layers of beautiful color. The art is incredibly adorable and makes you wish for plush figures of everyone, especially the tea dragons. Diversity is a natural part of the story, with dark-skinned, queer, and disabled characters filling the foreground and background. I hope this series will continue with even more installments to bring joy to readers like me.

The Tea Dragon Festival is a companion prequel to the graphic novel The Tea Dragon Society, featuring both old and new characters and just as many adorable dragons. The art is gorgeous (and there were fungi and beautiful woods! I loved that a lot.)

This time, the story follows a genderfluid main character who loves gathering food from the forest, and a confused dragon who woke up after eighty years of sleep. The story was cute, but what made it truly stand out was how it normalized queerness and sign language. Also, it's so refreshing to read about a world in which people of many different ethnicities coexist and the world doesn't always default to western customs - see which kinds of food was drawn and sometimes the eating utensils, for example.

Another thing I really appreciated was that this graphic novel said that just because something is easy for you, it doesn't mean it has no value. More than anything, this is a story about community, and finding your own place in it, and I thought it was wonderful.

The only thing I didn't love was the part at the end that attempted to explain dragon taxonomy, made a mess in which it mixed up species and subspecies, and capitalized specific epithets. I kind of wish it hadn't been there at all, because I care about that sort of thing.

OMG! This was so adorable! It is a prequel to The Tea Dragon Society and it made me feel so happy. It was a delight to read, I really enjoyed this graphic novel. The artwork is gorgeous and it is as stunning as the first one. The whole lot made my heart melt, I felt so much love and joy while reading it and I will definetely read it again. It also has a lot of representation such as LGBTQ+ , non-binary main characters, deaf rep and more. Plus, dragons! It's a magical book and for sure it's made for everyone to read.

Okay, this settles it - Katie O'Neill is now one of my favourite artists. Her panels are gorgeous and this prequel to The Tea Dragon Society is a beauty! It has so many things to love: mythical creatures, tea, love, family and environmentalism. What I loved most was how O'Neill dealt with mature topics such as finding your calling, loving your family, gender identity, and protecting the environment - all while creating the most adorable tea dragons!

Overall, this is a beautiful books - in its story and its art. I can't wait to see what O'Neill comes up with next.

This graphic novel brings me so much joy. I love this world and I am so happy I got to visit it again. The art is so beautiful and getting to see the landscapes drawn out was amazing. The writing in this graphic novel is also superb, as it isn’t too complex while it is also not too simple. I hope that we get to continue going back to this world because I always leave with the warmest feeling inside and I finish reading with such a smile on my face.

Already starting out I love that the book is in both ASL and english. I have recently set a goal of learning some basic ASL and this is such a beautiful and inclusive way of doing so.

T.H.E. A.R.T. WOW. I’m in love. My twin sister (an art student) loves Katie O’Neill and went crazy when I told her I got an ARC (too bad she has to wait for the actual publication!) Even though I’m not an art student I love art and her style is absolutely stunning. With every page I just keep thinking... THIS MUST HAVE TAKEN FOREVER. The creatures are SO FREAKIN CUTE.

I’m officially obsessed with Katio O’Neill’s art and this tea dragon world!

This book was provided to me by Oni Press and NetGalley for a fair and honest review

I loved this book just as much as I did the first one, The Tea Dragon Society. Once again, the art doesn't fail. If you read my review for The Tea Dragon Festival you will know I can't draw worth anything. But I have very clear and defined things I like. And I LOVE the artwork that Katie O'Neill provides.

Story line - we get a some Hese and Erik! I'm loving these characters. It does take place before the The Tea Dragon Society, so we get a little more H&E backstory. Which is cute. This also has a real dragon (along with the tea dragons).

Things I've really loved about these two books: the LGBT aspect. It isn't overly obvious and very sweet and lovely. I'm also liking the diversity that is not brought up, but is there! The obvious racial relationships, but once gain, not shoved down the throats of the children that this book is geared too. But so lovely written, and I loved it!

Things I loved about The Tea Dragon Festival: It has sign language in it! The fact that everyone in this village learned it, because of the birth of one person is great! That's not something you see now. But very heart warming! There are many other things I loved about it, but won't spoi in my review. Needless to say, I recommend this book to everyone!

Thank you again to NetGalley and OniPress!

Absolutely amazing. The art work was beautiful as always and the story was just so cute. I absolutely adored it and need more tea dragons in my life. They really do make me wish they were real.

I remember hearing a lot of buzz around The Tea Dragon Society last year, particularly on Booktube, and it's always been in the back of my mind to pick it up and read it, but I hadn't gotten around to it... yet. When the opportunity to review The Tea Dragon Festival came up, I couldn't turn it down because everything I knew about the first book led me to believe it would be beautiful and whimsical and pretty much something I'd love.

And was a I right.

The Tea Dragon Festival is a wonderful tale of finding your place in your community and helping others as Rinn stumbles across a dragon who's been asleep for 80 years and feels out of place. Rinn is, in turn, trying to figure out their place within the community they've grown up in and together they begin to make sense of themselves and their world. Alongside Rinn and Aedhan, there's Rinn's uncle, Erik, and his partner Hesekiel, who are also finding their path, and all of this is set in a charming community village that's as naturally diverse as one we would come across in our daily lives.

That's one of the things that struck me most about this beautifully illustrated graphic novel - it's diversity. Everyone we meet has their own story, path and potential and the diverse range of characters never feels forced or like characters have been given traits simply to say 'Hey, I'm a diverse character.' There are characters who are on the LGBTQIA+ spectrum, characters who are deaf (and there's an awesome little intro on how to read the signed conversation in the graphic novel to distinguish it from spoken conversation), old characters, young characters, a whole community of vegetarians... and of course, the tea dragons, themselves who have personalities of their own!

The storytelling is magical, and that's in part to the gorgeous art style, but also the setting and the way characters come together. You can't help but be drawn into the world. It's utterly charming and a wonderful way to spend an afternoon curled up on the couch reading.

My heart was completely stolen by the Tea Dragons - tiny dragons that represent different plants that can be used to make tea, and they all have their own little personalities that jump off the page. What's not to love about dragons and celebrating the drinking of tea?

I loved this instalment so much I immediately purchased a copy of The Tea Dragon Society online so I can read it. (I may have also shared a few pages of The Tea Dragon Festival with my class to get their thoughts on it... and they've been bugging me to continue reading it to them ever since!)

In a world full of books tackling heavy topics, this is a ray of sunshine that deftly handles the real world in beautiful way.