- Folklore, Knights and knighthood, Legends, Dragons
Retells the segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which George, the Red Cross Knight, slays the dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years and brings peace and joy to the land.
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- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Margaret Hodges
- First published
- 1984
- Pages
- 32
- Publisher
- Amer School Pub, Little, Brown, Perfection Learning Prebound
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780833561138
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“IN THE DAYS when monsters and giants and fairy folk lived in England, a noble knight was riding across a plain.”
Sarah Margaret "Peggy" Hodges née Moore (July 26, 1911 – December 13, 2005) was an American writer of children's books, librarian, and storyteller. Sarah Margaret Moore was born in Indianapolis, Indiana to Arthur Carlisle Moore and Annie Marie Moore. She enrolled at Tudor Hall, a college preparatory school for girls. A 1932 graduate of Vassar College, she arrived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her husband Fletcher Hodges Jr. when in 1937 he became curator at the Stephen Foster Memorial. She trained as a librarian at Carnegie Institute of Technology. Beginning in 1958 with One Little Drum, she wrote more than 40 published books. She also wrote the book John F. Kennedy Voice of Hope. She was
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