Top 5 Wonder Books Stories About Fantasy

By WonderBooks · Aug 20, 2026

Five real, illustrated Wonder Books stories about fantasy — ranked, with a real cover and description for each, out of 79 in the category.

Wonder Books currently has 79 illustrated stories filed under Fantasy. These five are a real, representative starting point — not the whole shelf, but enough to know if the category is for you.

About Fantasy

Fantasy as a modern genre owes its dominant shape largely to J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, published in the 1950s — a template of quests, invented worlds and clear moral stakes that most fantasy written since has either followed or deliberately pushed against.

The genre's roots go back much further than that, though — myth, folklore and epic poetry across nearly every culture share fantasy's core ingredients: magic, larger-than-life figures, and a world operating under rules different from the reader's own.

The Five, Ranked

Illustrated and narrated

Every one of these is a full illustrated story, not a summary — real page-by-page artwork with narrated audio built for the same page, in the same production pipeline used across all twelve WonderBooks libraries. Narration is measured-true for English today, with French, German, Spanish and Italian in production — every story's text is translated more broadly than that. See the FAQ below for the exact, current state rather than a blanket claim.