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Beast Quest

''Beast Quest'' is a best-selling British series of children's fantasy–adventure novels produced by Working Partners Ltd and written by several authors all using the house name Adam Blade. As of October 2024, the main series had achieved a total of 154 books published, and over 20 million copies of the books have been sold altogether since March 2007.

An editorial team at Working Partners first creates the storyline for each book and "then approaches a number of writers whose experience and style we think might suit the project and ask them to write a sample – usually the first three chapters of the book". The editorial team picks the sample with the voice that we think works best for the project."

The series is published by Orchard Books in the UK and by Scholastic Corporation in the US and is aimed largely at boys and girls aged 7 and over. The novels have been described as "clearly and simply written, [striking] the right balance between adventure and story telling" and a "great series to get kiddies, who normally wouldn't be, interested in reading." The books take place in a world called Avantia, and focus on a young boy named Tom and his friend Elenna as they attempt to restore peace to the land by stopping beasts from causing destruction. Kathryn Flett, writing in London's ''The Observer'', has called the books "almost certainly a work of publishing (if not quite literary) genius...''Narnia'' meets Pokémon via ''Potter''." The books are among the most-borrowed from UK lending libraries.

There is also a companion science fiction series called ''Sea Quest''. From 2021 to 2023, Adam Blade also created a short spin-off series called ''Space Wars'', consisting of only four books. There is also a 2015 mobile video game based on the ''Beast Quest'' book series, and a 2018 version for Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PS4 (Maximum Games). A new mobile version was released in May 2020 by Animoca. Provided by Wikipedia