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The Book of Dragons

Author
Edith Nesbit
Series
Children's Classics
Language
English
Length
112 pages
ISBN
9781787244733
Published
12 March 2018
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Nesbit
  • dragons
  • monsters
  • fantasy
  • Tales
  • Fairy
  • fairytale
  • children
  • magic
  • bedtime

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Description

Eight dragon tales turn ordinary households into comic peril as children meet dragonets, awkward wishes, and wild magical consequences that refuse to stay inside storybooks. Nesbit’s fairy collection of humour, fantasy, and moral surprise, where each dragon brings a lesson the young heroes did not mean to learn. Wonder and mischief share one enchanted shelf.

Author

E. Nesbit (1858–1924) reinvented children's literature by letting magic walk into ordinary English life — leftover tea, railway platforms, and wishes that go wrong in the most practical ways. The Railway Children, the Bastable books, and the Psammead adventures taught young readers that wonder need not be solemn. Nesbit wrote as an adult who still remembered how children actually talk: funny, fierce, and rarely pious.

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