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Title: The Knight and the Dragon by Tomie dePaola, Tomie dePaola ISBN: 0-698-11623-2 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: February, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.38 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book
Comment: The book is great. It is very funny. Both my son and I
enjoyed it a lot.
The book is very good for kids who just learned to read.
Rating: 5
Summary: My kids LOVE this book! And, they don't cry!!!
Comment: To begin with, one of the reviewers wrote that her four year old son cried when she read this book to him. WHAAA! Maybe the kid needs a Barbie Doll. Anyway, I have three boys from 2-6 and this is by far the most entertaining book we read together. We sit down together and we read about the clumsy knight and the clumsy dragon who each have no business fighting. It is very funny to see them pass each other, the knight ready to lance the dragon and the dragon ready to cook the knight- and end up in water and trees. I suppose you could make it a serious story if you wanted, about how fighting is not necessary and there are other alternatives and blah, blah, blah. But it DOESN'T have to be! Just read it at face value and laugh with your kids. They will enjoy it and you will to. It really is a fun book and the illustrations are hardly terrifying. In fact, they are rather comical. In the end, the clumsy knight and the dragon befriend each other and open a restaurant. The knight lances the burgers and holds them over his shield- now a BBQ- and the dragon cooks them with his fire breath. An entertaining read for the 3-6 year old "men" in your house. From, Dad P.S. I am sure that those of you with young girls will enjoy the story as well. It is ultimately the princess in the story who sets the two "fighters" straight. Some things never change...
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent book for any age
Comment: This is one of my favorite children's books. A knight and a dragon, both perfectly content on their own, realize that they are not living up to society's expectations of them and begin preparing for THE FIGHT. They're terrible at it, though, and fare much better as restauranteurs. What a great lesson, and what a great way to tell it. The book itself contains very few words, but lots of diPaola's detailed, engaging pictures, making it appropriate for a variety of ages. We've read this to our two-year old, discussing how fighting isn't very helpful. I imagine we'll be reading it to her when she's four or six, discussing how you shouldn't do things you don't like just because others say you should. An added bonus is that the princess, who is never mentioned in the text, provides the solution for "the boys", who initially appear to be the main characters in the story. It's a neat twist on a classic theme.
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Title: Knights in Shining Armor by Gail Gibbons ISBN: 0316300381 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Knight Who Was Afraid of the Dark (Picture Puffins) by Barbara Shook Hazen, Tony Ross, Nan Bodsworth ISBN: 014054545X Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: June, 1992 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Custard the Dragon and the Wicked Knight by Ogden Nash ISBN: 0316599050 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Good Night, Good Knight (Dutton Easy Reader) by Shelley Moore Thomas, Jennifer Plecas, Shelly Thomas, Lucia Monfried ISBN: 0525463267 Publisher: Dutton Books Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
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Title: The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame, Michael Hague ISBN: 0805008020 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 June, 1988 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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