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Jaimal Yogis.

Writer · United States

Jaimal Yogis: American author of the City of Dragons middle-grade illustrated-novel series — fantasy-adventure in a fictionalised East Asian setting, for ages 8–11.

Jaimal Yogis is an American author best known to children's-book readers as the writer of the City of Dragons middle-grade illustrated novel series, fantasy-adventure stories about a girl who befriends a baby dragon in a fictionalised East Asian setting. Yogis is also a journalist and writer of adult non-fiction about surfing and Buddhism (out of scope here). His children's-book voice is warm, fast-paced and culturally specific in its setting and emotional palette. A reliable contemporary middle-grade fantasy-adventure author for ages 8–11.