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Title: My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett ISBN: 0-394-89048-5 Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 12 November, 1987 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.85 (34 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: My Fathers Dragon
Comment: This Book is a fiction story about a kid named Elmer, who loves to go on adventures and one of his adventures is rescueing a baby drogon who has been captured by animals, and taken to Wild Island to be used as a way to get across the river there. Elmer hers this news from a stray ally cat that he finds one day, and decides he going to run away and go to Wild Island to freethis dragon. Elmer has to outsmart a buch of animals to get to the dragon but it's easy for him because he's relly clever. I thought the book was very exciting and fun to read. It the kind of book you don't want to put down and want to read it over and over agan.
Rating: 5
Summary: The perfect first chapter book
Comment: This was the first chapter book I read to my son, when he was 4, and I couldn't have found a better choice. The story is simple and easy to follow — a nine-year-old boy saves an enslaved baby dragon and then flies home on the dragon's back. The book's language is simple and direct. And there's a black and white drawing on almost every other page, which is perfect, because most young children still need a picture to look at while they're listening.
The best thing about the book for me was that even though there's plenty of action (mostly involving the little boy outsmarting a series of wild animals in order to reach the dragon), there's nothing the least bit scary here. That was very important to me as the mother of a four-year-old. The book was written in the forties, and it has a sweet, gentle, old-fashioned quality that it's hard to find in any form of entertainment for young children today. (Even Disney is too intense for a lot of four-year-olds.) It has the kind of innocence most of us would like our children to be able to hang on to for a few years.
My son loved the book so much we read it over and over again, and went on to read the other two books in the series (Elmer and the Dragon and The Dragons of Blueland) many times as well.
Years later, when he was in third grade, his teacher mentioned to me that she was hunting for a chapter book to read to the class, but wasn't having much luck. Everything she looked at seemed beyond the attention span of many of the kids in her class. I told her about My Father's Dragon, but I also said it probably wasn't exciting enough to hold the attention of third graders. But she tried it anyway, and later told me that kids who had never shown any interest in books were reminding her every day to read another chapter. She, too, went on to read the whole series.
It's a great introduction to chapter books. More important, it's a lovely, gentle book to share with a child.
Rating: 4
Summary: Dragon Rescue
Comment: This book is by Ruth Stiles Gannet. It is fiction because a dragon is in it and animals talk in it. Ruth Stiles Gannet wrote My Father's Dragon a couple years after finishing college in 1944. This book was a great success and won a Newberry award.
The main character is a boy named Elmer. Elmer wishes he could fly. He finds a stray cat that knows a dragon that can take him on a flying ride. Before he can do that, Elmer has to free the dragon from Wild Island that has an extremely thick forest. The dragon is a slave of the animals in the jungle and is used to fly them across the river on the island. To free the dragon, Elmer has to get by vicious animals that want to eat him.
My Father's Dragon makes me feel that I'm in a jungle getting chased by ferocious animals. I loved reading this book because Elmer goes on a gigantic adventure. I recommend this book for people who like reading adventurous stories. Also, it won the Newberry award.
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Title: Elmer and the Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett ISBN: 0394890493 Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 12 November, 1987 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Dragons of Blueland by Ruth Stiles Gannett ISBN: 0394890507 Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 12 November, 1987 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater ISBN: 0316058432 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 02 November, 1992 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Three Tales of My Father's Dragon by RUTH STILES GANNETT ISBN: 0679889116 Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 25 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden ISBN: 0440415632 Publisher: Random House Children's Books Pub. Date: 15 September, 1970 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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