Ranger's Apprentice by John Flanagan - New Art

While searching today for anticipation of the next book by John Flanagan in the Ranger's Apprentice Series, I had to marvel at the new artwork for the books. This seems to be a turn that a lot of companies are turning to and making the books almost feel like trading cards. I do like most of the new artwork and still like some of the old artwork. Around the world where released there have been many covers to simple yet well done arrows to this new more dramatic painted scenes. I really did not like the photo covers of the early books, so this makes you wonder what is next. Tamora Pierce has done this with her Tortall Series and that made me bite the bullet and pick up 1 of the Alanna titles that I could not resist the artwork on.

The next question is- will you purchase a new set of these to get the new covers? I personally will purchase the new books in the series and even continue to order from overseas but I am not sure I will collect all the covers, but it sure makes me wish I had waited sometimes.

IT IS ON THE WAY! - RANGERS APPRENTICE #8 - THE KINGS OF CLONMEL

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The eighth book in the Rangers Apprentice Series by John Flanagan was published November third and after some delay (not sure why) is now on its way to my waiting hands.

Right now in the United States we are on book #4 so if you want more of the series you need to order from Australia, which is adventure in its self. Expect the delivery to be somewhere around four weeks and by the way don't even bother with Amazon.au they don't have it and is not really in the country.

This is a series that follows a young lad named Will, his training and adventures while growing up in the Ranger Corps. I would really spoil it to give you the entire run down of the series. Let me just say read it. You will not be disappointed. It is a story for the ages, truly. I am enjoying reading with my kids these adventures and my 10 year old has already re-read the series multiple times. She is trying hard to finish them again before the new one gets here. Which means every day we have a battle of wills, me saying - When is going to get here? and her - "It didn't come today did it?

The nice things about these books are that they are (books 1-4) available by most Libraries as a free download audio books through NetLibrary. If you want to discuss this book or others you can head over to the Rangers Apprentice Forum. There are currently 2 websites that I know of for the Rangers Apprentice Books - one is the .com site - http://www.rangersapprentice.com/ and the other is the Australian version of the .com - http://www.rangersapprentice.com.au/index.asp where you can play games, do puzzles and get downloads.

Needless to say I recommend the books and if you have not picked them up, do! They are that good.

To see the very cool and updated cover art see my new post at http://wcandersonreviews.blogspot.com/2010/09/rangers-apprentice-by-john-flanagan-new.html