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ⓘ About Emily Carroll
Emily Carroll is an artist and writer of numerous award-winning comics that have been published in both the print and online world. The same can be said about her first standalone print work “Through the Woods” which she published after she spent years posting just comics to her website. Going back to her childhood, Emily Carroll always loved fairy tales as they were the first thing in the creative world that she found very fascinating and sometimes scary. She still remembers reading the original fairy tales before they were edited by Disney and reading “Grimm’s Fairy Tales” and being shocked by all the stories in it. There was a lot of surreal malice and murder in these works, and this was very different from just about any other children’s fiction novel that she had ever read.
All Book Series by Emily Carroll
The Mystery Boxes
Series opener · book 1 of 3 · published 2012 Co-authored · Raina Telgemeier,Dave Roman,Kazu Kibuishi,Rad Sechrist,Jason Caffoe,Stuart Livingston
The Lost Islands
Book 2 of 3 · published 2013 Anthology · Braden Lamb,Michel Gagné,Jake Parker,Raina Telgemeier,Dave Roman,Kazu Kibuishi,Christina Garland,Jason Caffoe,EricKim,Selena Dizazzo,Katie Shanahan,Steven Shanahan
The Hidden Doors
Latest in the series · book 3 of 3 · published 2014 Anthology · Douglas Holgate,Steve Hamaker,Faith Erin Hicks,Jen Wang,Kazu Kibuishi,Johane Matte,Jason Caffoe,Noreen Rana,Mary Cagle,Jen Breach
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011
Series opener · book 1 of 9 · published 2011
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019
Latest in the series · book 9 of 9 · published 2019
Fairy Tale Comics: Classic Tales Told by Extraordinary Cartoonists
Latest in the series · book 3 of 3 · published 2013
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Emily Carroll?
Emily Carroll is an artist and writer of numerous award-winning comics that have been published in both the print and online world. The same can be said about her first standalone print work “Through the Woods” which she published after she spent years posting just comics to her website. Going back to her childhood, Emily Carroll always loved fairy tales as they were the first thing in the creative world that she found very fascinating and sometimes scary.
Which Emily Carroll series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Explorer series, the earliest of Emily Carroll's multi-book series: it opens with The Mystery Boxes (2012) and runs to 3 books across 2012–2014, ending with The Hidden Doors (2014).
How many books has Emily Carroll written?
Emily Carroll has 19 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2011 and 2023. 13 of them belong to 3 named series — the largest being the Explorer series with 3 books — and 6 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Emily Carroll's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Emily Carroll's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Explorer (2012–2014, 3 books) and Frontier (2015, 1 book).
How are Emily Carroll's books organised into series?
This guide splits Emily Carroll's 19 books into 3 named series and 6 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Explorer (3 books, 2012–2014); Frontier (1 book, 2015); The Best American: Nonrequired Reading (9 books, 2011–2019).