My Father's Dragon

In the third grade, I met Mrs. Palombi, my favorite teacher ever. She taught us how to churn butter (you sit in a circle, pass around a bottle of heavy cream that everyone takes a turn shaking up, and spread the resulting curds on Ritz crackers), she brought a cotton candy machine to the Fall Festiv......more

Elmer Elevator learns about a little captive dragon from an old alley cat. He packs his backpack with supplies that seem a bit unusual and stows away on a boat to travel to Wild Island where the dragon is being forced to fly animals back and forth across a river. This Newbery winning book from 1948......more

Delightful classic 1948 children's book for the 8-13 age range, with a retro vibe and old-fashioned illustrations. This is a great kid's fantasy about a boy's adventures with his dragon. My kids loved this book (and its two sequels) when they were young. The narrator tells about his father's adventur......more

Overall, it was a lovely enough book that it is worth a read, but I don't think this is one we will revisit. Both of my littles sat while we read this one over a few nights. It's not as long as some of the other books we've read so my three year old was able to stick around for most of it. This wasn'......more

I loved this book as a kid, and I seem to recall it was the first chapter book I ever read. (Upon my discovery of the Table of Contents, I thought its purpose was so that you could go there and decide which chapter you wanted to read instead of having to read through the whole thing.) Years later I......more