The Fabled Stables: Willa the Wisp

Illustrated by Olga Demidova

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The first book in a magical chapter-book adventure series by the Governor General Award-winning author of Sweep.

Auggie Pound is eight years old and has the greatest job of all time: he cares for all the animals in the Fabled Stables. The Fabled Stables house the rarest creatures in existence -- all of them one-of-a-kind. Auggie's job is to care for these creatures, as well as track down and safely capture endangered magical beasts in the wild. Some mornings, he arrives to find an empty stall with the name of a new creature to rescue. One day, the Stables rearrange themselves out of the blue, creating a new stall. The sign over the gate says, "Wisp." But what is a wisp…

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August 2, 2022

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JONATHAN AUXIER is the author of The Vanished Kingdom series, including Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes, which was a Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award Honour Book. His bestselling The Night Gardener won The TD Canadian Children's Literature Award and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award and several others, while Sweep received six starred reviews, and won the Governor General's Award and the Sydney Taylor Book Award. Auxier grew up near Vancouver and now lives in Pittsburgh with his family.

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OLGA DEMIDOVA was born and raised in Russia. She studied at the Moscow Art Institute of Applied Arts and started work as an animator, but her tremendous passion for illustration changed the direction she works in. Now she works with publishers from all over the world and has published books and apps in Russia, Belarus and the US, mostly for children.