- Fiction, Dragons, Animals, Juvenile fiction
A young boy runs away from home to rescue an abused baby dragon held captive to serve as a free twenty-four hour, seven-days-a-week ferry for the lazy wild animals living on Wild Island.
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Classical in form, resolved, earnest and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
- effortlessdemanding
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Ruth S. Gannett
- First published
- 1948
- Pages
- 80
- Publisher
- Collins, Accolade Press, Trumpet Club Special Edition
- Editions
- 93
- Language
- Japanese, tur, German, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781913988302
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“Once cold rainy day when my father was a little boy, he met an old alley cat on his street.”
Ruth Stiles Gannett Kahn (born August 12, 1923) is an American children's writer best known for My Father's Dragon and its two sequels—collectively sometimes called the My Father's Dragon or the Elmer and the Dragons series or trilogy.
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