Jordan Lees
In a quiet corner of Essex, where the shadows of old stories linger and imagination still seeps through the cracks in everyday life, Jordan Lees began building a world of his own. That world—Wreathenwold—is a labyrinth of forgotten alleyways, secret doors, and peculiar magic, now brought to life in The Whisperwicks series, a breakout in contemporary middle-grade fantasy. Though new to bookshelves, Lees isn’t new to the magic of storytelling. A lifelong reader shaped by the mythic depth of Neil Gaiman and the emotional resonance of Philip Pullman, he started writing the early threads of The Whisperwicks more than a decade before its…