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Three stories of the adventures of Elmer Elevator and the flying dragons
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My Father's Dragon--a favorite of young readers since the 1940s and a Newbery honor book--captures the nonsensical logic of childhood in an amusingly deadpan fashion. The story begins when Elmer Elevator (the narrator's father as a boy) runs away with an old alley cat to rescue a flying baby dragon being exploited on a faraway island. With the help of two dozen pink lollipops, rubber bands, chewing gum, and a fine-toothed comb, Elmer disarms the fiercest of beasts on Wild Island. The quirky, comical adventure ends with a heroic denouement: the freeing of the dragon. Abundant black-and-white lithographs by Ruth Chrisman Gannett (the author's stepmother) add an evocative, lighthearted mood to an already enchanting story. Author Ruth Stiles Gannett's stand-alone sequel, Elmer and the Dragon, and her third volume, The Dragons of Blueland both received starred reviews in School Library Journal and are as fresh and original as her first. (Ages 4 to 8)
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2 hours, 23 min.
2 cassettes
Performance by Robert Sevra
1949 Newbery Honor Book
1999 Platinum Audio Award - Oppenheim Toy Portfolio
Hear all three magnificent dragon stories in this two-cassette set that begins with Elmer Elevator's trip to rescue an overworked dragon from a jungle island of wild beasts in My Father's Dragon. In Elmer and the Dragon, the friends are forced down in another land as they fly back from Wild Island and meet all the escaped canaries of the world. The final book, The Dragons of Blueland, tells of plans to outwit hunters who are trying to capture the dragon's family.
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- PublisherKnopf Books for Young Readers
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0394891368
- ISBN 13 9780394891361
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages96
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