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Children's Booklist - Dragonology


Title: Dragon world
Author: Rob Brown
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Title: The library dragon
Author: Carmen Agra Deedy
Summary: Miss Lotta Scales is a dragon who believes her job is to protect the school's library books from the children, but when she finally realizes that books are meant to be read, the dragon turns into Miss Lotty, librarian and storyteller.


Title: Dragon in the cupboard
Author: Karen Dolby
Summary: Crunch... crackle... munch... slurp... The sounds were coming from the large cupboard in the farthest, darkest corner of the kitchen. When George and Lottie open the doors, they are amazed to discover a small, friendly and very hungry dragon. He is lost and needs their deep help to find his way home.


Title: Arthur's tractor : a fairy tale with mechanical parts
Author: Pippa Goodhart
Summary: Unaware that a princess in distress and a dragon on the loose are right behind him, Arthur the farmer thinks that the strange noises he keeps hearing are being made by his tractor breaking down.


Title: The reluctant dragon
Author: Robert D. San Souci
Summary: The boy who finds the dragon in the cave knows it is a kindly, harmless one, but how can he convince the frightened villagers and, especially, St. George the dragon killer that there is no cause for concern?


Title: Who wants a dragon?
Author: James Mayhew
Summary: A baby dragon, looking for someone to love and cuddle him, finally encounters his mother.


Title: Harry on the rocks
Author: Susan Meddaugh
Summary: Harry and his boat become stranded on an island, where he discovers an egg which hatches into a strange lizard with wings.


Title: The egg
Author: M.P. Robertson
Summary: George hatches a dragon from a strange egg that he finds and then faces the challenge of raising him properly.


Title: Jasper the terror
Author: John A. Rowe
Summary: Jasper the dragon creates problems for his animal friends because he keeps sneezing and setting fire to things.


Title: Sir Cassie to the rescue
Author: Linda Smith
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Title: The dragon machine
Author: Helen Ward
Summary: George, ignored and overlooked, begins seeing dragons everywhere and soon comes to a decision that he alone must lead them back to their wilderness home.


Title: The queen's dragon
Author: Anne Cassidy
Summary: When the queen gets tired of her dragon, Harry, and starts to look for a replacement, the royal parrot tries to help him reclaim the queen's affections.


Title: The book of dragons
Author: Michael Hague
Summary: A collection of short stories featuring dragons, by such authors as Italo Calvino, Kenneth Grahame, and Elizabeth Coatsworth.


Title: The bookstore mouse
Author: Peggy Christian
Summary: A mouse living in an antiquarian bookstore learns the true power of words when he literally falls into a medieval tale and helps defeat the dragon Censor.


Title: Sign of the dove
Author: Susan Fletcher
Summary: As the last of the dragon eggs, laid long ago, begin to hatch, Lyf becomes a reluctant friend who tries to save both the dragon mothers and their newly born children from their enemies.


Title: DRAGON RIDER
Author: Cornelia Funke
Summary: After learning that humans are headed toward his hidden home, Firedrake, a silver dragon, is joined by a brownie and an orphan boy in a quest to find the legendary valley known as the Rim of Heaven, encountering friendly and unfriendly creatures along the way, and struggling to evade the relentless pursuit of an old enemy.


Title: Falcon's egg
Author: Luli Gray
Summary: Taking care of her younger brother and a loving but flighty mother has made Falcon very responsible for a eleven-year-old, but she needs the help of her great-great aunt, a friendly neighbor, and an ornithologist when she finds a unusual egg in Central Park.


Title: Roverandom
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
Summary: A dog who has been turned into a toy dog encounters rival wizards and experiences various adventures on the moon with giant spiders, dragon moths, and the Great White Dragon.


Title: Dragon keeper
Author: Carole Wilkinson
Summary: An orphan slave girl becomes a Dragon Keeper when she heroically comes to the aid of an aging dragon and both go on a dangerous journey across China to protect a mysterious stone vital to the dragon's legacy.


Title: The dragon's boy
Author: Jane Yolen
Summary: Young Arthur meets a dragon and comes to accept him as a friend and mentor.


Title: Tales of Deltora
Author: Emily Rodda
Summary: Presented as a collecton of nineteen tales that reveal the secret history of Deltora and the rise of Adin.


Title: Three tales of my father's dragon
Author: Ruth Stiles Gannett
Summary: A compilation of three tales which relate the fantastic adventures of Elmer Elevator and a baby flying dragon named Boris.


Title: The dragonling
Author: Jackie French Koller
Summary: Finding a baby dragon accidentally left alive after his older brother's dragonquest, Darek risks death and the anger of his people in trying to return it to the Valley of the Dragons.


Title: Dragon Slayers' Academy
Author: K.H. McMullan
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Title: Lily Quench
Author: Natalie Jane Prior
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Title: The Enchanted Forest Chronicles
Author: Wrede, Patricia C.
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Title: Behold-- the dragons!
Author: Gail Gibbons
Summary: Explains how myths about dragons developed, different types of dragons, what draconologists do, and how different cultures portray dragons.


Title: The dragon's pearl
Author: Julie Lawson
Summary: During a terrible drought, a cheerful, dutiful son finds a magic pearl which forever changes his life and the lives of his mother and neighbors.


Title: Merlin and the dragons
Author: Jane Yolen
Summary: When young Arthur is troubled by dreams, Merlin tells him a story about a fatherless boy who himself dreamed about dragons and the defeat of the evil king Vortigern.