The Book of Dragons
E. Nesbit
(Author)
Description
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- The book contains eight stories featuring youngsters and dragons who come to cross purposes and clash. To paraphrase what used to be written in the unexplored areas of ancient maps, Here There Be Dragons: a red dragon who escapes from a book, a purple dragon who changes life forever in Rotundia, a plague of green dragons with yellow wings, a dragon made of ice, an old white dragon with a beard, a rust-red armored dragon with a furry secret, a shining fiery dragon, and a huge yellow dragon. Competing against the various dragons were such clever children as Edmund (he is a boy who likes to find things out, which is not the same as learning things), Lionel (who really should never have opened that lovely book he found), and more than one Princess: Mary Ann (who loved her little pet rhinos, but most especially loved her tiny elephant), and Sabrinetta (who had a heart of gold). Nesbit writes many vivid, humorous, striking, or beautiful similes. One dragon's "claws were as long as lessons and as sharp as bayonets." Another dragon cries with rage "like twenty engines all letting off steam at the top of their voices inside Cannon Street Station." The Northern Lights look like "as if the fairies were planting little shining baby poplar trees and watering them with liquid light." And "when the Dragon saw them start, he turned and flew after them, with his great wings flapping like clouds at sunset, and the Hippogriff's wide wings were snowy as clouds at moonrise." The stories in The Book of Dragons are rarely scary, occasionally moving, often beautiful, and always witty. Children and adults should enjoy them. Scroll Up and Grab Your Copy! Also by E. Nesbit The Story of the Treasure Seekers https: //www.createspace.com/6558030 The Railway Children https: //www.createspace.com/6483012 Five Children and It https: //www.createspace.com/6358326 Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare https: //www.createspace.com/6555710 The Enchanted Castle https: //www.createspace.com/6553916 Oz Books The Wonderful Wizard of Oz https: //www.createspace.com/6426287 TIK-TOK of OZ https: //www.createspace.com/6353841 Ozma of Oz https: //www.createspace.com/6356346 Glinda of OZ https: //www.createspace.com/6461890 The Scarecrow of OZ https: //www.createspace.com/6461981 The Marvelous Land of Oz https: //www.createspace.com/6462832 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz https: //www.createspace.com/6464450 The Road to Oz by https: //www.createspace.com/6464521 The Emerald City of Oz https: //www.createspace.com/6464602 The Patchwork Girl of Oz https: //www.createspace.com/6464682 The Lost Princess of Oz https: //www.createspace.com/6465342 The Tin Woodman of Oz https: //www.createspace.com/6466582 Rinkitink in Oz https: //www.createspace.com/6464764 The Magic of Oz https: //www.createspace.com/6466620 Grimm's Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm https: //www.createspace.com/6440051 Sky Island by L. Frank Baum https: //www.createspace.com/6446563 The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett https: //www.createspace.com/6455917
Product Details
Price
$10.24
Publisher
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Publish Date
September 07, 2016
Pages
98
Dimensions
6.0 X 9.0 X 0.2 inches | 0.31 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781537550947
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About the Author
Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 - 4 May 1924) was an English author and poet; she published her books for children under the name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on more than 60 books of fiction for children. Nesbit published approximately 40 books for children, including novels, collections of stories and picture books. Collaborating with others, she published almost as many more. According to her biographer Julia Briggs, Nesbit was "the first modern writer for children" "(Nesbit) helped to reverse the great tradition of children's literature inaugurated by Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald and Kenneth Grahame, in turning away from their secondary worlds to the tough truths to be won from encounters with things-as-they-are, previously the province of adult novels." Briggs also credits Nesbit with having invented the children's adventure story. Noël Coward was a great admirer of hers and, in a letter to an early biographer Noel Streatfeild, wrote "she had an economy of phrase, and an unparalleled talent for evoking hot summer days in the English countryside."
