My Father's Dragon

✍ Ruth Stiles Gannett 📂 Fiction 🌐 English ⚖ 7 MB

When Elmer Elevator tells a stray cat about his dream of being able to fly, he learns of a captive dragon on Wild Island. The dragon has been forced by the jungle residents to serve as their shuttle across a wide river -- and anyone who rescues the dragon from its cruel captors might be entitled to

My Father's Dragon

✍ Stiles, Gannett Ruth 📂 Fiction 🏛 Random House 🌐 English ⚖ 2 MB

##### *1949 Newbery Honor Book* ### 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

My Father's Dragon

✍ Gannett, Ruth Stiles 📂 Fiction 📅 1987 🏛 Random House Books for Young Readers 🌐 English ⚖ 710 KB

### 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 res

My Father's Dragon

✍ Gannett, Ruth Stiles; Stiles, Ruth 📂 Fiction 📅 1987 🏛 Random House Books for Young Readers 🌐 English ⚖ 710 KB

### 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 res

My Father's Dragon

✍ Gannett, Ruth Stiles; Stiles, Ruth 📂 Fiction 📅 1987 🏛 Random House Books for Young Readers 🌐 English ⚖ 2 MB

### 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

My Father's Dragon

✍ Ruth Stiles Gannett; Ruth Stiles 📂 Fiction 📅 1988;1987 🏛 Random House Childrens Books;Distributed by Random 🌐 English ⚖ 1004 KB 👁 4 views

When Elmer Elevator hears about the plight of an overworked and underappreciated baby flying dragon, he stows away on a ship and travels to Wild Island to rescue the dragon. #### Annotation A young boy determines to rescue a poor baby dragon who is being used by a group of lazy wild animals to fe