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My Father's Dragon

✍ Scribed by Gannett, Ruth Stiles; Stiles, Ruth

Book ID: 107043297
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Year: 1987
Tongue: English
Weight: 2 MB
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

Amazon.com Review

My Father's Dragon --a favorite of young readers since the 1940s and a Newbery honor book--captures the nonsensical logic of childhood in an amusingly deadpan fashion. The story begins when Elmer Elevator (the narrator's father as a boy) runs away with an old alley cat to rescue a flying baby dragon being exploited on a faraway island. With the help of two dozen pink lollipops, rubber bands, chewing gum, and a fine-toothed comb, Elmer disarms the fiercest of beasts on Wild Island. The quirky, comical adventure ends with a heroic denouement: the freeing of the dragon. Abundant black-and-white lithographs by Ruth Chrisman Gannett (the author's stepmother) add an evocative, lighthearted mood to an already enchanting story. Author Ruth Stiles Gannett's stand-alone sequel, Elmer and the Dragon , and her third volume, The Dragons of Blueland both received starred reviews in School Library Journal and are as fresh and original as her first. (Ages 4 to 8)

Review

"Delightfully logical nonsense, appealing characters and irrepressible humor." -The New York Times

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