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The preface for 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up is by children's illustrator and author Quentin Blake and introduction by Julia Eccleshare. [2] There is an index of titles, arranged alphabetically, and an index by author/illustrator, arranged alphabetically too, but by author/illustrator, not by title of book.
The novel is about a young boy, Elmer, who runs away to Wild Island to rescue a baby dragon. Both a Newbery Honor Book and an ALA Notable Book, [1] it is the first book of a trilogy whose other titles are Elmer and the Dragon and The Dragons of Blueland. All three were published in a 50-year anniversary edition as Three Tales of My Father's Dragon.
The fascinating story and "Harald Wiberg's darkly luminous rendition of a tranquil snowy farm" turn the book into a great bedtime story for children and leave a lot of room for fantasy. [8] The writer Sarah Moore Fitzgerald thinks The Tomten and the Fox is "gentle, benign and soothing". It was her favorite book as a child. [9]
Dugald Steer also wrote a series of children's books called the Dragonology Chronicles based around the lore created in the Dragonology books. There are four books in this series: The Dragon's Eye [ 9 ] published in 2006, The Dragon Diary [ 10 ] published in 2008, The Dragon's Apprentice [ 11 ] published in 2011, and The Dragon Prophecy [ 12 ...
One scholar describes the book as "a story about language", such as the "dialect of the illiterate people", and the "literary aspirations of the dragon". [3] The story also has an opening scene in which a little girl named Charlotte (a character from Grahame's The Golden Age) and a grown-up character find mysterious reptilian footprints in the snow and follow them, eventually finding a man who ...
Hugh Skinner as Zog, the orange accident-prone dragon who tries his best every day to win a golden star. Rocco Wright as Young Zog. Kit Harington as Sir Gadabout the Great, the knight in the story who, at one point, joins Zog for a fight. Patsy Ferran as Princess Pearl, the princess who lives in a castle with her uncle and dreams of being a doctor.
Children's books about dragons, reptilian legendary creatures that appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. Beliefs about dragons vary considerably through regions, but dragons in western cultures since the High Middle Ages have often been depicted as winged, horned, and capable of breathing fire.
Jane and the Dragon book cover. Jane and the Dragon is a series of children's books written and illustrated by Martin Baynton. The original trilogy consists of Jane and the Dragon (1988), The Dragon's Purpose (1989), and Jane and the Magician (2000). In 2008 two further books followed: Three's a Crowd and A Dragon's Tail.