Imagine a Dragon, Laurence Pringle
Imagine a Dragon, Laurence Pringle
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Imagine a Dragon

Author: Laurence Pringle

Narrator: John McDonough

Unabridged: 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/14/2014


Synopsis

For thousands of years, the notion of dragons has struck fear in the hearts of men and women all over the world. The ancient Egyptians believed there was a dragon of darkness that attacked the sun god each day, and in Norway people thought that a dragon gnawed at the roots of the tree that sustained all life on Earth. Around the globe, dragons have been depicted as everything from massive, winged, fire-breathing creatures to beasts sporting a camel's head, deer's horns, rabbit's eyes, and eagle's claws! Dragons might hoard treasure in caves, or they might be responsible for floods and the death of livestock. Dragons, in fact, prove as diverse as the many cultures that tell of them. The works of Laurence Pringle have garnered major awards, including the Eva L. Gordon Award for Children's Science Literature, the Washington Post-Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award, and a Lifetime Achievement Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rose on June 30, 2024

This informative book provides a survey of dragon lore. Pringle's book is off to a good start with the excellent rhyme in the title. Different cultures imagine dragons differently. * If you lived in England, you might fear that a dragon would terrorize the countryside. * Alternatively, if you lived in......more

Goodreads review by Whole And on April 20, 2015

A favourite read over and over kind book, with tales of friendly and helpful dragons and those that are fierce and foes. Legends and myth told from around the world. Stunning illustrations. My daughter declared once how sad she was that dragons were always killed in stories and this book offers lege......more

Goodreads review by Marie on September 26, 2008

Interesting history of the legends of dragons around the world.......more