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Christopher Healy

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Christopher Healy is the author of the Hero's Guide trilogy (The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom, The Hero's Guide to Storming the Castle, and The Hero's Guide to Being an Outlaw), the Perilous Journey of Danger & Mayhem trilogy (A Dastardly Plot, The Treacherous Seas, and The Final Gambit), and This Is Not That Kind of Book. His newest book, No One Leaves the Castle—a fantasy mystery standalone spinoff of the Hero's Guide novels—comes out in August 2023.

Chris lives in New Jersey with his wife, two children, and a dog named Winston Bean. Visit him at ChristopherHealy.com. And visit the Hero's Guide/No One Leaves the Castle universe at TheThirteenKingdoms.com. ...more

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	The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom (The League of Princes, #1) by Christopher Healy (Goodreads Author), Todd Harris (Illustrator) 4.07 avg rating — 12,244 ratings — published 2012 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hero's Guide to Storming the Castle (The League of Princes, #2) by Christopher Healy (Goodreads Author), Todd Harris (Illustrator) 4.24 avg rating — 5,111 ratings — published 2013 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hero's Guide to Being an Outlaw (The League of Princes, #3) 4.32 avg rating — 3,202 ratings — published 2014 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No One Leaves the Castle 3.98 avg rating — 821 ratings — published 2023 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Is Not That Kind of Book by Christopher Healy (Goodreads Author), Ben Mantle (Illustrator) 3.80 avg rating — 504 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Perilous Journey of Danger and Mayhem #1: A Dastardly Plot 3.78 avg rating — 369 ratings — published 2018 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Treacherous Seas (A Perilous Journey of Danger and Mayhem, #2) 3.98 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 2019 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hero's Guide Complete Collection, #1-3 (The League of Princes, #1-3) 4.65 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Final Gambit (A Perilous Journey of Danger and Mayhem, #3) 4.02 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2020 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pop Culture: The Sane Man's Guide to the Insane World of New Fatherhood by Christopher Healy (Goodreads Author), Gilbert Hernández 3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Class Acts Tour

The inaugural leg of HarperCollins's Class Acts Tour was a smashing success! Jon Scieszka, Christopher Krovatin, and I had some of the most awesome audiences ever, so we need to send a big thank you to the kids, teachers, and librarians at Noecker School in Roseland, NJ, Union School in Rutherfor, NJ, and Lafayette Elementary, Capitol Hill Day School, Landon School for Boys, St. Andrew's Episcopal Read more of this blog post »

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The League of Princes (3 books)
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Christopher Healy (Goodreads Author)

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A Perilous Journey of Danger and Mayhem (3 books)
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Christopher Healy (Goodreads Author)

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Christopher Healy answered Alan Wilcox's question: How could the Frog Prince and The Little Mermaid's prince charming not included in the Hero's Guide trilogy? and If the characters are lampooning the classic fairytales then would you like it if the Hero's Guide trilogy became a movie and do you envision the prince charmings and their princesses being cartoon caricatures of dead movie stars? When I started the first book, I thought any more than four princes would probably be too many princes to keep track of. Of course, as time went by, this series ended up having about a bazillion characters in it, so clearly, I stopped worrying about See Full Answer
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“When facing unbeatable odds, just think of yourself as unbeatably odd. (The Hero's Guide to Being a Hero)”
― Christopher Healy, The Hero's Guide to Storming the Castle

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“I'm Liam of Erinthia. I'm here to rescue you ... And You are not Cinderella. You are a tree branch wrapped in a sheet”
― Christopher Healy, The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom

tags: cinderella, folklore, humor, prince-charming

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“No, Princes Charming," Duncan cheerfully corrected. "'Prince' is the noun; that's what gets pluralized. 'Charming' is an adjective; you can't add an S to it like that.”
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