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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1995
  • Latest Book:
    October 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Good Night

1 - Good Night, Good Knight (Feb-2000)
2 - Get Well, Good Knight (Feb-2004)
3 - Happy Birthday, Good Knight (Feb-2006)

Book List in Order: 14 titles




  • 1999 Best Children's Books of the Year, Bank Street College2002 CCBC Children's ChoicesSomewhere in the world each day, people just like you are acting in kind, peaceful, loving ways. Perhaps they are visiting someone who is old, teaching a little si...



  • The Good Knight is on his watch when he hears a sound. Roar! Is it a dragon? A great big dragon? He searches the woods and finds a surprise. Three very little dragons are almost ready for bed. But who will read to them, tuck them in, and kiss them go...



  • ACHOO! The Good Knight's three little dragon friends are sick in bed. Their scaly foreheads are hot and their noses are drip-drip-dripping. They feel awful. So the Good Knight brings them some slimy, grimy soup from the wizard to make them feel b...



  • The much-loved Good Knight is back again . . . and it’s his birthday! His three little dragon friends want to surprise him. They try to make a cake -- but all they make is a mess. A card? Another mess -- glitter and glue all over the room.Then the ...



  • Excited about attending the beautiful ball in the nearby castle, three little dragons show up with the best of intentions, but after they knock over the punch bowl, stumble about on the dance floor, and cause all-around havoc through a series of mish...



  • Guided by a tattered map, accompanied by Thomas the Pig Boy, and inspired by the storyteller’s blood that thrums through her veins, eleven-year-old Trinket searches for the seven stories she needs to become a bard like her father, who disappeared y...



  • Meet Kitten -- she wants catnip and milk and a basket. She also wants a helmet and lasers and a puppy (!). And she wants to go to Jupiter, with that helmet, those lasers, and said puppy -- don't underestimate her. This witty picture book, about longi...



  • In their present-day tourist trap of an Irish seaside town, famed for its supposed involvement with selkies in the past, three sisters are faced with the sudden disappearance of their mother. Crushed by the loss, their father is struggling to carry o...






  • Meet a mouse narrator who stubbornly insists that this book contains absolutely no dragons -- not even a claw nor a flame nor any large, pointy scales. Readers will know better -- and enjoy being in on the joke -- as a flock of dragons chase the mous...



  • From a child’s point of view, this lyrical picture book looks at the relationship of nature to the human world and the place we call home. From the edge of the sea to a high mountain top, everything has its place in the world and all living thin...



  • Friendship is the winner in this hilarious contest between a girl who blames a narwhal for her mess and the narwhal who materializes to defend himself.This girl's room is an amazing mess between the pies, the paints, and the giant rainbow splashed ac...



  • A modern fairytale about sisterhood, forgiveness, and redemption in the vein of The Girl Who Drank the Moon and The One and Only Ivan.Off the coast of Ireland, on the island of Hybrasil, lives a Magician and four enchanted rabbit sisters. One by one,...



  • In this magical and poetic picture book, a father and child see all the wonders and connections in nature and in life as they go about their day.From a seed to a plant, from an egg to a chick, from a caterpillar to a butterfly, a child and father obs...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Shelley Moore Thomas has published 14 books.

Shelley Moore Thomas does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Beginning, was published in October 2022.

The first book by Shelley Moore Thomas, Putting the World to Sleep, was published in September 1995.

Yes. Shelley Moore Thomas has 1 series.