- Fiction, Dragons, Juvenile fiction, Fairy tales
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?
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Classical in form, effortless, warm and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- First published
- 1938
- Pages
- 38
- Publisher
- Bodley Head, Collins, Methuen Children's
- Editions
- 228
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781656411600
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“LONG ago-might have been hundreds of years ago-in a cottage halfway between a little English village and the shoulder of the Downs, a shepherd lived with his wife and their little son.”
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