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Discover the Dragons

A Memory Game
By Emily Hawkins
Series: Folklore Field Guides
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Discover the Dragons by Emily Hawkins is an enchanting dragon matching game, perfect for providing delightful, screen-free entertainment for dragon fans of all ages. Can you reunite the dragons with their friends in this fun and easy-to-learn game? The sturdy gift box contains 40 cards, each... Read More
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Discover the Dragons is a fun card game where you can put your memory skills to the test and learn about the diverse dragons of the world while you play.

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Discover the Dragons by Emily Hawkins is an enchanting dragon matching game, perfect for providing delightful, screen-free entertainment for dragon fans of all ages. Can you reunite the dragons with their friends in this fun and easy-to-learn game?

The sturdy gift box contains 40 cards, each measuring 8.8 × 6.6 cm, alongside a 28-page booklet. The box itself is a convenient size of 10 × 14.4 × 4.7 cm. Within this game, you will encounter 20 diverse dragon species from all corners of the world, and your task is to match the pairs belonging to the same species.

Included is an illustrated booklet with game rules, fascinating dragon facts, and tips for finding them yourself. This beautiful new memory game is based on the popular gift book A Natural History of Dragons. It challenges players to match the rainbow-coloured Feathered Serpents and remember where a pair of Flits is hiding.

The cards feature naturalist illustrations of dragon species from different regions, such as the Australian Flamethrower, the Japanese Water Dragon, the Saharan Strangler, and the Western Woodstalker. The booklet serves as a field guide to the dragon species on the cards. Discover how the vegetarian Bumblelump (Draco tumbulus) uses its powerful front legs to dig its burrow home into hillsides. Learn about the Lindwyrm (Draco vermis), which does not breathe fire but can spit a foul-smelling venom causing blistering and blindness.

To play the game, arrange the cards face down on a table, then flip over two cards at a time. Do they show the same dragon species? If they do, you collect the pair. If not, try to remember their locations to make a match on your next turn.

The Folklore Field Guides series is a charming collection of beautifully illustrated handbooks that delve into topics of lore and legend. These guides are filled with fascinating facts and breathtaking illustrations, all presented in a captivating narrative form.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781836005612

Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC

Format: Cards

Date Published: 07 August 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Kaddo

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Jessica Roux

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 144.0mm

Height: 100.0mm

Weight: 350g

Pages: 40

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About the Author

Once a children's book editor, Emily Hawkins is now a full-time author. Her work has been featured on the New York Times bestseller list (Oceanology, 2009) as well as winning the Children's Travel Book of the Year Award (Atlas of Animal Adventures, 2016). Along with her background in children's non-fiction Emily has a strong interest in myth, folklore and storytelling, and has written several titles in the Lost Atlases and Spin to Survive series (Wide Eyed Editions). In 2020 she wrote A Natural History of Fairies, which has been translated into twelve languages, selling more than 100,000 copies worldwide. Jessica Roux is a Nashville-based illustrator and plant and animal enthusiast. She loves exploring in her own backyard and being surrounded by an abundance of nature. Using subdued colours and rhythmic shapes, she renders flora, fauna, food and many other things with intricate detail reminiscent of old world beauty. Her first book with Frances Lincoln was A Natural History of Fairies (September 2020).

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