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Your Next Read Silver: Dragon Beach
Series: Your Next Read Silver
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Do you like animals, family and magical stories? Then this book is Your Next Read Silver: Dragon Beach. When Jack’s dog Franky eats something strange at the beach, he turns into a giant dragon! But Ranger Roz doesn’t think a dragon can be a pet and...
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Do you like animals, family and magical stories?
Then this book is Your Next Read Silver: Dragon Beach.
When Jack’s dog Franky eats something strange at the beach, he turns into a giant dragon! But Ranger Roz doesn’t think a dragon can be a pet and wants to take Franky away. Can Jack save his best friend before it’s too late?
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Your Next Read Silver: Dragon Beach
Do you like animals, family and magical stories? Then this book is Your Next Read Silver: Dragon Beach. When Jack’s dog Franky eats something strange at the beach, he turns into a giant dragon! But Ranger Roz doesn’t think a dragon can be a pet and wants to take Franky away. Can Jack save his best friend before it’s too...Paperback$1499Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips early September
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781923419346
Publisher: Affirm Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 30 June 2026
Country: Australia
Imprint: Affirm Kids
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Gus Gordon
DIMENSIONS
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 112
About the Author
Kylie is an award-winning, internationally published children's book author and illustrator from Western Australia. She was raised in the country alongside her brother, dog, sheep, several orphaned kangaroos and one very cheeky echidna. Her obsession with animals also extends underwater as she has braved lionfish in Egypt, piranha and pink dolphins in the Amazon, marine iguanas and hammerhead sharks in the Galapagos Islands and swum with whale sharks, manta rays and humpback whales at Ningaloo, Western Australia.
Gus Gordon is an internationally acclaimed illustrator and author. He has illustrated and written nearly 100 books for children. His books, including Wendy, Herman and Rosie (2013 CBCA Honour book), Somewhere Else (2017 Speech Pathology book of the year), The Last Peach and Finding François have sold in over 20 countries worldwide and have received wide international recognition. He has twice been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.Gus’s first graphic novel, Into the Bewilderness was recently released simultaneously in the US and Australia. Gus lives in Brisbane, Australia. He also loves cheese, and things that go with cheese.
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