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  • My 11-year-old son and I are reading this book together. We are really enjoying the connection over the adventure, bravery, and beauty in the vivid nature descriptions in this book...Thank you for writing books I can enjoy with my son.

    Melanie

  • I read ALL of SD Smith's books out loud to my children for a bedtime ritual. To me there's nothing better than a cold TV and all the kiddos huddled up around a good book. For a dad, I'm hoping above hopes that this story ignites a fire in my childrens' hearts like they do to mine.

    Garret

  • This is a book that deeply nourishes the moral imagination and kingdom longing in our children, and it deserves to have a permanent place on the shelf of every family library.

    J. Showmaker

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The Green Ember Series isn't just about rabbits with swords—it's about courage, sacrifice, and hope. Parents around the world say these stories have helped their kids face fears, stand up for what's right, and even get their most reluctant reader excited about reading.

Green Ember Author S. D. Smith

About S. D. Smith

S. D. SMITH is the author of The Green Ember Series, a million+ selling adventure saga featuring heroic #RabbitsWithSwords. The Green Ember spent time as the number one bestselling audiobook in the world on Audible. He is also the author of the madcap Mooses with Bazookas: And Other Stories Children Should Never Read as well as the touching throwback adventure, The Found Boys. Finally, he has co-authored two fantasy adventure novels with his son (J. C. Smith), Jack Zulu and the Waylander’s Key and Jack Zulu and the Girl with Golden Wings. Smith’s stories are captivating readers across the globe who are hungry for “new stories with an old soul.”

Though packed with old school virtue and moral imagination, Smith doesn’t merely create “safe” stories, but bold, daring, truthful tales of light that help shape children who become dangerous—dangerous to the darkness.

Smith is a founder and owner of Story Warren, a publishing, events, and IP development house based in rural West Virginia. Story Warren exists to serve families as “allies in imagination.” 

S. D. Smith lives in Grandview, West Virginia with his wife and four kids.

"A captivating story with sword-bearing rabbits, daring quests, and moments of poignant beauty, The Green Ember is a tale that will delight and inspire young readers to courage and creativity and would make a perfect book for a family to read aloud." - Sarah Clarkson, author of Read for the Heart and Caught Up in a Story

Recommended Reading Order

Author S. D. Smith recommends publication order:

  1. The Green Ember
  2. The Black Star of Kingston
  3. Ember Falls
  4. The Last Archer
  5. Ember Rising
  6. The Wreck and Rise of Whitson Mariner
  7. The First Fowler
  8. Ember’s End
  9. The Archer’s Cup
  10. Prince Lander and the Dragon War
  11. The Lost Key
  12. Helmer in the Dragon Tomb
  13. The Lost Legend
  14. The Lost Cause

Vintage adventure. Moral imagination. Classic virtue.
Finally, stories we all love. Just one more chapter, please!