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My Father's Dragon

By Ruth Stiles Gannett and Ruth Chrisman Gannett
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2026 Hardcover Reprint of 1948 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. My Father's Dragon is a children's novel about a young boy, Elmer Elevator, who runs away to Wild Island to rescue a baby dragon. Both a Newbery Honor... Read More
Format: Hardback
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2026 Hardcover Reprint of 1948 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software.

My Father's Dragon is a children's novel about a young boy, Elmer Elevator, who runs away to Wild Island to rescue a baby dragon. Both a Newbery Honor Book and an ALA Notable Book, it is the first book of a trilogy whose other titles are Elmer and the Dragon and The Dragons of Blueland. The 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.

In 2012, it was ranked number 49 among all-time children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal. The story was written by Ruth Stiles Gannett and illustrated by her stepmother Ruth Chrisman Gannett.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781684229239

Publisher: Martino Fine Books

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 09 September 2024

Imprint: Martino Fine Books

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 313g

Pages: 94

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Children's Books Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Ruth Chrisman Gannett Ruth Stiles Gannett Young Adult

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