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Among the knights is a 60-year-old knight named Sir Nobonk, who becomes a dragon-catcher in order to save the dragons from extinction. Setting forth into the nearby forest, Sir Nobonk successfully captures the last living dragon, and convinces the king to open a zoo to help dragons to repopulate. The plan becomes successful, and also helps ...
Dragon Boy is a children's novel by British author Dick King-Smith, first published in 1993. The novel is about John, a young orphan in the Middle Ages who is adopted by dragons . Dragon Boy appears on numerous school reading lists [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and is taught in schools. [ 4 ]
Radius is the son of Di of Ameter and Sir Cumference. He has a friend named Vertex in Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone, and plays an important role in both Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi and The Sword in the Cone first by turning his father to a dragon and back, and later assisting Vertex in becoming King.
Children's books about dragons, reptilian legendary creatures that appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. Beliefs about dragons vary considerably through regions, but dragons in western cultures since the High Middle Ages have often been depicted as winged, horned, and capable of breathing fire.
Bragwort – DSA student, first introduced in Book 7, who is known for being a braggart. Count Upsohigh – A nobleman, introduced in Book 8, who tricked people into giving him gold. Zack – A boy who is transported from New York in 1999 by his computer into medieval times in Book 8 (a crossover with the book series The Zack Files). He ...
Gary Gentile, A Time For Dragons (1989), Dragons Past (1990), and No Future For Dragons (1990): Various dragons. Rick Cook, Wizard's Bane (1989), LRD, little red dragon guards the compiler book. Jean Marzollo, Baby Unicorn and Baby Dragon (1989): A young dragon named Moon to match the crescent mark on his head.
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights is a 1903 children's novel by the American illustrator and writer Howard Pyle. The book contains a compilation of various stories, adapted by Pyle, regarding the legendary King Arthur of Britain and select Knights of the Round Table .
Many tales of dragons, ending with the dragon-slayer marrying a princess, do not precisely fit this cliché because the princess is in no more danger than the rest of the threatened kingdom. An unusual variant occurs in Child ballad 34, Kemp Owyne , where the dragon is the maiden; the hero, based on Ywain from Arthurian legend, rescues her from ...