Children of the Plains is set during the early Dragonlance era, about 4000 years prior to the Cataclysm. It was first published in 2000 as a mass-market paperback and co-authored by Paul Thompson and Tonya Cook. It tells the story of the early barbarians/plainsman, specifically a group of nomads and a group of settlers. It begins with a nomadic family being attacked by a group of predators. Only two of the family members survive, although neither is aware that the other lives. One becomes a leader of a nomadic tribe, and the other, through a friendship with a dragon who saved him from the predators, becomes a leader of a group of settlers. Years later, the brother and sister discover the other is alive. Within that story, there is a conflict between humans and elves, humans and elves and dragons, and dragons versus each other.
The paperback version of the book is just over 300 pages and reads fairly quickly. While it does provide a backstory for some of the conflict between humans and elves that exists in the books set during the War of the Lance, especially the Chronicles and Legends trilogies, it is a self-contained story that does not require reading any of the other books to follow. The story is not nearly as good as in the Chronicles and Legends trilogies, but it has enough action to make it enjoyable. Ultimately, it is not one of my must-reads in the series, but if you are a fan of the Dragonlance series and want stories that add context to the more well-known novels, this is worth checking out.
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