Author: Jerdine Nolen
Illustrator: Elise Primavera
Publisher: Silver Whistle, Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998
Genre: Fantasy, Picture Book
Age Range: K-2
Summary: A girl helps work on a farm with her mom and dad. She knew everything about raising dragons, just like her father knew everything about farming. She found this "rock" at Miller's cave and watched it for days. Finally the rock became an egg and cracked open with a baby dragon inside. The girl raised the dragon. She would feed it, read to it, play with it. Eventually Hank, the dragon got big enough and helped the farm out more than ever. The people wanted the "dragon vegetables" and "dragon popcorn". Hank grew older and knew it was time to leave. He went to a dragon island where there were many other dragons. Hank told the girl goodbye and left her with several more "rocks" and she lived her life raising dragons.
Response: This book was really interesting and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The girl's imagination, curiosity, and determination were really interesting throughout the book. I would use this book in my future classroom and possibly even on days that the students are writing or learning to write. This book would help get the children's minds set on creativity or imaginative thinking. This book made me feel young again and wish that I was creative and could still play with imaginary things, like I did when I was little. Overall, its a great book for children to read and some will really enjoy it.
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