Children's Book Author


Mari Mancusi

LATEST NEWS AND INFORMATION 

​New Dragon City will be on the 2024/2025 Texas Bluebonnet State Reading List. Thank you Texas Librarians! Mari will be participating in Bluebonnet events at this year's TLA. She is also currently booking school visits for 24/25. See Teachers page for details. 

New Dragon City is currently on the Great Stone Face NH state reading list. 

New Dragon City has been nominated as a "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 and German. Italian, and Spanish versions will be released in 2024. 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 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.