Alethea Kontis

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  • Bibliography:
    37 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 2006
  • Latest Book:
    October 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Woodcutter Sisters

1 - Enchanted (May-2012)
2 - Hero (Oct-2013)
3 - Dearest (Feb-2015)

Multi-Author Series List

Fairytale Retellings: Snow White

Hero (Oct-2013)
Tales of Arilland (Jul-2015)

Fairytale Retellings: Cinderella

Enchanted (May-2012)

Fairytale Retellings: Sleeping Beauty

Enchanted (May-2012)

Fairytale Retellings: The Frog Prince

Enchanted (May-2012)

Book List in Order: 37 titles

  • Alphaopps!: The Day Z Went First

    It's backwards! It's inside out! It's every letter for itself! This laugh-out-loud romp is not your average alphabet book! Z is tired of always having to be last when the alphabet family lines up. He is demanding fair and equal treatment! The lett...

  • AlphaOops!: H is for Halloween

    H gets top billing -- but a stubborn B has something scary to say -- as the inside-out alphabet gives a howl-arious Halloween performance. Ack! It’s time for the show, and A isn’t ready. But then again, Halloween can only start with one le...

  • Blue and Gray & Black and Green

  • The God of Last Moments

    Max receives a piece of his mother's funerary jewelry and realizes that he now has the power to touch certain objects and relive their owner's last moments. But exactly how far will he need to go to reach divinity?This e-book includes the original sh...

  • The Monster and Mrs. Blake

    At eleven years old, Jeremy Blake is too old to have a monster under his bed. But there is a monster there. and it's getting bigger. Jeremy searches desperately for a solution to his problem and finally seeks help from the most unlikely person: his m...

  • A Poor Man's Roses

    Inspired by Patsy Cline, Kerri attempts to escape from the mad scientist husband bent on extracting her powerful nanotechnology-enhanced blood for his own nefarious devices. This e-book includes the original short story as well as "Smelling the Roses...

  • Small Magics

    A young woman in fantasy Victorian London looks forward to showing off her magical etching skills to the head of the Society of Natural Scientists. This e-book includes the original short story as well as "The Princess with Butterfly Wings," an essay...

  • The Unicorn Tree

    Wandering space pilot and artist Katie Shepard sets down on a devastated planet on a quest for her mother...and discovers that the ruined city is occupied by a gang of orphaned clone children. This e-book includes the original short story as well as ...

  • The Way of the Restless

    Three hundred years into the future, soap operas are still going strong (and with the same casts!). Swindler, driver, persuader, seducer, anarchist, requisitionist, treasure hunter, bounty hunter, collector, and seller, Elvis is asked to pull off one...



  • The Witch of Black Mountain

    Pregnant and troubled, Ennica Jamison follows a schoolyard legend and climbs to the top of Black Mountain to seek help from the witch who lives there. This e-book includes the original short story as well as "Discovering Harlan," an essay about the o...

  • Enchanted

    Woodcutter Sisters - 1
    Fairytale Retellings: Cinderella
    Fairytale Retellings: Sleeping Beauty
    Fairytale Retellings: The Frog Prince

    It isn't easy being the rather overlooked and unhappy youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six days of the week. Sunday's only comfort is writing stories, although what she writes has a terrible tendency to come true. When Sunday meets ...

  • Hero

    Woodcutter Sisters - 2
    Fairytale Retellings: Snow White

    Rough-and-tumble Saturday Woodcutter thinks she's the only one of her sisters without any magic -- until the day she accidentally conjures an ocean in the backyard. With her sword in tow, Saturday sets sail on a pirate ship, only to find herself kidn...

  • Wild and Wishful, Dark and Dreaming

    From astronauts in deep space to the ghosts of the Civil War, New York Times bestselling author Alethea Kontis creates worlds of wonder and delight, of weirdness and despair, of whimsy and darkness. In these pages are twenty stories and poems that wi...

  • Messenger

    The deleted last chapter from Dearest! (Woodcutter Sisters, Book Three)

    The only reason it's not free is to keep new readers from spoiling the series for themselves...or anyone else on the internet.

    PROCEED WITH CAUTION!

    ...

  • Dearest

    Woodcutter Sisters - 3

    Readers met the Woodcutter sisters (named after the days of the week) in Enchanted and Hero. In this delightful third book, Alethea Kontis weaves together some fine-feathered fairy tales to focus on Friday Woodcutter, the kind and loving seamstress. ...

  • Trixter

    Trix Woodcutter is the long prophesied Boy Who Talks to Animals. He’s also a foundling prankster scamp who places his family under a sleeping spell so that he can run away from home. Compelled by a vision of his dead birthmother, Trix departs on th...

  • Tales of Arilland

    Fairytale Retellings: Snow White

    2015 Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award Winner In the fairy tale realm of Arilland, stories are told at children's bedsides--and not the stories you think you know. Tales of Arilland is a collection of fairy tales, presented in the magical topsy-tu...

  • Diary of a Mad Scientist Garden Gnome

    BEWARE THE SOCK MONKEY."In a world where monsters and fairies roam the backyard, one gnome seeks to save his true love from an experiment gone terribly awry! You will find within the pages of this book the diary entries of one Dr. Harry Gnome, mad sc...

  • Trix and the Faerie Queen

    Join Trix Woodcutter on an epic new animal-filled adventure! Fey magic and animal magic: that troublemaking imp Trix Woodcutter has both, if not the ability to use them to their full potential. While traveling with his companion -- the golden girl Li...



  • Once Upon A Curse

    #1 Bestseller in Fantasy Anthologies and Dark Fantasy Seventeen magical stories from NY Times and USA Today bestsellers and award-winning authors that will entice you to the darker side of faerie tales. More Grimm than Disney, in this collection you...

  • For Angels to Fly

    Annaleigh Elizabeta Morales did not expect to die tonight.

    She did not expect to meet Death. She did not expect to become an angel. She certainly did not expect to screw it up so badly. Fans of Arilland will enjoy this dark, bloodstained tal...

  • Haven, Kansas

    Never reap a harvest sown with blood. 150 years ago, in Haven, Kansas, a witch was burned at the stake. This October, in Haven, Kansas, a boy plays a prank on his big sister. Suddenly, crows fill the skies, a female scarecrow plagues the town, and te...

  • Once Upon A Kiss

    Seventeen all new, magical stories from NY Times and USA Today bestsellers and award-winning authors that will warm even the coldest hearts. Inspired by old favorites as well as lesser-known tales, find retellings of Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast,...

  • The Truth about Cats and Wolves

    Harmswood Academy - Part 1Like many paranormals of Greek descent, Kai Xanthopoulos will not know her true nature until her young powers fully manifest. Unlike her parents-and much to the dismay of her stray cat best friend-Kai has chosen not to spen...

  • Alligator Baby

    Twelve year old Marie was orphaned on the Louisiana bayou. Goaded by her friend Andre, she braves the home of the local magic woman known as Voodoo Lily to ask about her origin. But is she ready to discover the truth?...

  • Counterclockwise

    Imagine a universe where, on November 5, 1605, Guy Fawkes's Gunpowder Plot was successful. The explosion resulted in a schism that split the British Prime Universe into two more planes of existence: one that went forwards in time (clockwise), and one...

  • The Giant and the Unicorn

  • Red Lantern

    Jack Brown is an unhappy painter whose glass is always half-empty. He lives on the top floor of an apartment complex next to a perky, optimistic witch named Cassie and her troublesome cat. This Halloween, beneath a full moon, Jack stumbles onto a mag...

  • Savage Planet

    Space explorers Kat Savage and Blu Valentine land their ship on a planet in response to a distorted message from a damaged emergency beacon. In their quest to find the source of the beacon, they find a lush world filled with beautiful plants and vari...



  • The Were Four

    Instead of the world ending in 2012, the majority of the population turned into were-beings of their totem animal. Peter, Quinn, Romeo and Sam are four (lame) shapeshifters (platypus, mosquito, piranha, sloth) who also happen to be best friends and m...

  • When Tinker Met Bell

    Everybody knows that goblins and fairies can't be friends. But that never stopped Tinker and Bell. Bellamy Merriweather Larousse isn't like the other fairies at Harmswood Academy, with her giant wings and their magical dust. "Southern Bell...

  • Besphinxed

    2019 Scribe Award Winner!Heather Hayden has everything a young witch could desire: beauty, money, popularity, and exceptionally strong magical powers. Too bad she's also got a dysfunctional family that couldn't care less about her a...

  • The Glass Mountain

    On the way to her wedding, brave and clever Princess Sabine falls into a Glass Mountain, where she is trapped with a crotchety, smelly man she calls “Old Rinkrank.” The two form a unique, unlikely friendship while working to escape. Alethea Konti...

  • The Unicorn Hunter

  • SANTA CIS

    DEAR SANTA, PLEASE SAVE METhanks to rampant worldwide consumerism, dear old Saint Nick retired long ago to an undisclosed location. But when a disturbing Dear Santa letter is received by the Santa Mail office in Alaska, a former senior elf (now an em...

  • Love Gone Wrong

    The Castle of Horror Anthology is back with a brand-new collection of stories intended to curdle the blood and freeze the heart! This time the theme is love-- family love, romantic love, dedicated love, obsessive love, but what they all have in commo...

  • Oodles of Doodles!

    Meet a poodle who can doodle oodles and oodles of noodles in this hilarious Level 1 Ready-to-Read by bestselling and award-winning author Alethea Kontis!Do you doodle? I do doodle! Does your poodle doodle? My poodle doodles oodles.Kids and adults wil...

Award-Winning Books by Alethea Kontis

Enchanted
2015 Garden State Teen Book Award -- Fiction (Grades 6-8)


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Alethea Kontis has published 37 books.

Alethea Kontis does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Oodles of Doodles!, was published in October 2022.

The first book by Alethea Kontis, Alphaopps!: The Day Z Went First, was published in August 2006.

Yes. Alethea Kontis has 1 series.
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