Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blu and Friends | 2011 | Lexa Hillyer | Buy |
| 2 | Learning to Fly | 2011 | Lexa Hillyer | Buy |
| 3 | The Movie Storybook | 2011 | Lexa Hillyer | Buy |
| 4 | Greetings From Rio! | 2011 | Lexa Hillyer | Buy |
| 5 | Rio: The Junior Novel | 2011 | Lexa Hillyer | Buy |
| 6 | Birds of a Feather | 2011 | Lexa Hillyer | Buy |
| 7 | One Big Blue Family | 2014 | Lexa Hillyer | Buy |
| 8 | Untamed Talent | 2014 | Lexa Hillyer | Buy |
The Rio series consists of eight books tied to the Blue Sky Studios animated films about Blu, a domesticated Spix’s macaw who travels to Rio de Janeiro. Lexa Hillyer wrote several entries in the series, including the junior novelization and various storybook adaptations. The books were published in 2011 alongside the first film and in 2014 for the sequel.
The titles range from full junior novelizations to shorter picture-book-style entries like Blu and Friends and One Big Blue Family. These are children’s books aimed at young readers who enjoyed the animated films, and they represent the media tie-in work that Hillyer did early in her publishing career before focusing on original YA fiction.