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	• My Father's Dragon Ruth Stiles Gannett Yearling, 2005 - 96 pages average customer review:based on 68 reviews view larger image
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My Father's Dragon

My Father's Dragon, a Newbery Honor Book, has been a favorite among young readers since it was written in 1948. This book, first in a series of three, engages a child's imagination in a story that is complete make-believe. The story begins when Elmer Elevator (the narrator's father as a boy) runs away with an old alley cat to help rescue a flying baby dragon that is being mistreated on faraway Wild Island. While at Wild Island, he encounters tigers, a rhinoceros, lions, gorillas, and monkeys. Elmer uses the things he carries in his backpack to fight off all of the wild animals on his way to save the dragon. A few of the items that he uses are pink lollipops, rubber bands, chewing gum, and a fine-toothed comb. It is through these crazy adventures that Elmer eventually rescues the dragon from its torment. My Father's Dragon is a hilarious tale that will keep children laughing and will induce creativity. This book allows the children's imaginations to run wild. The author, Ruth Stiles Gannett, continued this style of writing in the last two of the trilogy, Elmer and the Dragon and The Dragons of Blueland.

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Dragon Rescue

This book is by Ruth Stiles Gannett. It is fiction because a dragon is in it and animals talk in it. Ruth Stiles Gannett wrote My Father's Dragon a couple years after finishing college in 1944. This book was a great success and won a Newberry award.

The main character is a boy named Elmer. Elmer wishes he could fly. He finds a stray cat that knows a dragon that can take him on a flying ride. Before he can do that, Elmer has to free the dragon from Wild Island that has an extremely thick forest. The dragon is a slave of the animals in the jungle and is used to fly them across the river on the island. To free the dragon, Elmer has to get by vicious animals that want to eat him.

My Father's Dragon makes me feel that I'm in a jungle getting chased by ferocious animals. I loved reading this book because Elmer goes on a gigantic adventure. I recommend this book for people who like reading adventurous stories. Also, it won the Newberry award.

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Dragon Rescue

This book is by Ruth Stiles Gannet. It is fiction because a dragon is in it and animals talk in it. Ruth Stiles Gannet wrote My Father's Dragon a couple years after finishing college in 1944. This book was a great success and won a Newberry award.

A Great Book that Everyone Should Read!

I read the book My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett. I would recommend this book to my friends. This book was so well written that I believed cats could talk.

The story begins one day when a boy finds a cat on the street. The boy is the narrator's father many years ago. The cat and the boy became best friends. His mom was so upset and didn't let the cat stay in the house. This was an unusual cat because it could talk. The father told the cat he wanted to be a pilot. He liked flying a lot. The cat told him about a dragon and that he could fly on the dragon's back. The dragon lived on Wild Island. Wild Island was a dangerous place to travel to because there were wild animals. The father decided to go there. The father survived on Wild Island because he was making the animals happy by giving them things he brought from home.

The narrator's father was a little boy that time. He was brave and very clever. He had a big heart. The cat could talk to people, and normally cats can't. He came from Tangerine Island and back to the mainland.

When I read this story, I believed casts could talk. The story was exciting becasue the father talked to animals. Animals had different feelings like anger or happiness. It did seem like a real story. I think the message was if you want to make something happen, imagine it first and then make it real. Also you need to be smart and brave to survive.

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My Father goes on....

This book is about a boy named Elmer Elevator. The story is told by his child, his daughter, we think. He goes on a big adventure, trying to rescue a baby dragon. We think it is fiction, because dragons are not really real and animals can not talk. A cat told Elmer about Wild Island and Tangerina, and the dragon who was there that was tied up in a rope. But he also told the father, Elmer Elevator, that there was ferocious animals on the island. Elmer Elevator frees the dragon because he was a very smart boy.
We liked this story because it is a really good story about a dragon and a father when he was a nine year old boy. It was a LITTLE funny and it was a really BIG adventure.

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