Deerheart
Will be published approx. on 22. September 2026
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-1-5362-4288-1 (ISBN)
Description
Best-selling author Eoin Colfer and award-winning illustrator P.J. Lynch deliver a beautifully rendered, original myth about a shapeshifting witch who must save the love of her life and defend her magical woodland home from a cunning enemy.
In the heart of an ancient forest, three fairy witches guard the Creedon Stone, the source of all magic. Crow-like Scrawb leads the birds, and sharp-toothed Hackle the wolves. The youngest witch, Deerheart, who can shapeshift into a speckled red deer, has been charged with killing dangerous humans. She has never seen a human—until she sets eyes on young Halvar and can’t look away. Love sparks between the two, interfering with Deerheart’s duty to eliminate humans to protect the forest. When Lord Vollug’s shadowy plans come to light, their love is imperiled, along with the entire Creedon Wood. Now Deerheart must discover fierce inner strength if she is to save her love and her home. Eoin Colfer’s narrative, shimmering with witch power and a reverence for the forest and its inhabitants, together with P.J. Lynch’s inviting illustrations, bring to life this brand-new story that is as mythical and spellbinding as a centuries-old legend.
In the heart of an ancient forest, three fairy witches guard the Creedon Stone, the source of all magic. Crow-like Scrawb leads the birds, and sharp-toothed Hackle the wolves. The youngest witch, Deerheart, who can shapeshift into a speckled red deer, has been charged with killing dangerous humans. She has never seen a human—until she sets eyes on young Halvar and can’t look away. Love sparks between the two, interfering with Deerheart’s duty to eliminate humans to protect the forest. When Lord Vollug’s shadowy plans come to light, their love is imperiled, along with the entire Creedon Wood. Now Deerheart must discover fierce inner strength if she is to save her love and her home. Eoin Colfer’s narrative, shimmering with witch power and a reverence for the forest and its inhabitants, together with P.J. Lynch’s inviting illustrations, bring to life this brand-new story that is as mythical and spellbinding as a centuries-old legend.
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Eoin Colfer is the New York Times best-selling author of the children’s fantasy series Artemis Fowl. His other notable works include Half Moon Investigations, Airman, and The Supernaturalist as well as his previous collaborations with P.J. Lynch, The Dog Who Lost His Bark and Three Tasks for a Dragon. The recipient of many awards, he lives in Ireland with his wife and two children.
P.J. Lynch has won numerous awards, including the Mother Goose Award, the Christopher Award three times, and the Kate Greenaway Medal twice, first for The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey by Susan Wojciechowski and again for When Jessie Came Across the Sea by Amy Hest. More recently, he illustrated David Almond’s Kevin and the Blackbirds and Eoin Colfer’s Three Tasks for a Dragon, and he is the author-illustrator of The Boy Who Fell Off the Mayflower and The Haunted Lake. P.J. Lynch lives in Dublin.
P.J. Lynch has won numerous awards, including the Mother Goose Award, the Christopher Award three times, and the Kate Greenaway Medal twice, first for The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey by Susan Wojciechowski and again for When Jessie Came Across the Sea by Amy Hest. More recently, he illustrated David Almond’s Kevin and the Blackbirds and Eoin Colfer’s Three Tasks for a Dragon, and he is the author-illustrator of The Boy Who Fell Off the Mayflower and The Haunted Lake. P.J. Lynch lives in Dublin.