The Truth About Dragons, Jaime Zollars
The Truth About Dragons, Jaime Zollars
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The Truth About Dragons

Author: Jaime Zollars

Narrator: Marisa Calin

Unabridged: 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/22/2020


Synopsis

A spellbinding picture book about the anxiety and excitement of a new experience, represented by a castle full of dragons that aren't quite what they appear.
As a young girl cautiously approaches a castle full of soaring, roaring dragons, she worries about their wildness and their terribly sharp teeth. And indeed, the dragons are hungry and noisy, and they seem to be hovering closer and closer . . . until the girl notices that some of the beasts are wearing mismatched socks. And some are playing tambourines. And some prefer to color quietly in the corner. Could there be more to these dragons than the girl first realized?
In this remarkable debut, every page turn reveals another dragon meticulously transformed into a friend, each child working through his or her own overwhelming first day of school. Inspired by the author's daughter, The Truth About Dragons encourages young readers to see beyond their fears to the often surprising truths underneath . . . and to find their inner dragons.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kate on October 26, 2021

I wanted to read this book as part of a vaguely Halloween, scary creatures story time set but I genuinely don't understand the ending...so this book is saying everyone is a dragon? And dragons symbols are this girl's anxiety about interacting with people at school? Or something like that? The illust......more

Goodreads review by Amy on January 12, 2021

The illustrations are really whimsical and fun but I completely missed the point of the story until the end when I suddenly realized dragons were turning into children and that it had something to do with not being afraid of people? Or how getting to know them changed how you saw them? I'm grasping......more

Goodreads review by Penny on September 28, 2020

Sweet drawings, and a lovely story. We dragons are not always what we seem. My secret is out! My favorite part was the picture of the dragons in the library, surrounded by dozens of my favorite books about dragons!......more

Goodreads review by Melanie on March 28, 2021

Beautiful picture book for a broad range of ages. Jaime Zollars uses fabulous vocabulary, great rhythm and rhyme and ever-present alliteration to weave a fantastic dragon book that will be just fun for the toddlers who are not afraid of dragons on a page and then as those same kiddos get older, the......more


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Praise for The Truth About Dragons:

An Amazon Best Book of the Month, September 2020

"Lushly illustrated.... Beautiful."
SLJ

"A beautifully rendered, comforting, gentle lesson in overcoming fears."—Kirkus Reviews