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A Herbivorous Dragon of 5,000 Years Gets Unfairly Villainized (齢5000年の草食ドラゴン、いわれなき邪竜認定, Yowai 5000-nen no Sōshoku Dragon, Iwarenaki Jaryū Nintei, lit. "A 5000-year-old Herbivore Dragon Was Recognized as an Evil Dragon For No Reason") is a Japanese light novel series written by Kaisei Enomoto and ...
Dragon Hoops received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, [1] School Library Journal, [2] The Horn Book, [3] Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, [4] and Booklist, [5] as well as positive reviews from Kirkus, [6] San Francisco Chronicle, [7] and The New York Times.
The "Rain Wild Chronicles" is set in the Rain Wilds, an inhospitable swampy region encompassing the Rain Wild River.After centuries, following the disappearance of the Dragons and their Keepers, the Elderlings, together with their Magic, the Rain Wild River has become polluted, turning the waters acidic and deadly to the people of the Rain Wilds Forests.
To describe the scene in which the city of Tarsis is destroyed by dragons, Margaret Weis studied World War II films of the bombing of London. [2]During the scene in which most of the characters are killed in a dream, Margaret Weis references Othello by William Shakespeare, with Caramon speaking the phrase: "No, you're wrong, Tanis.
One scholar describes the book as "a story about language", such as the "dialect of the illiterate people", and the "literary aspirations of the dragon". [3] The story also has an opening scene in which a little girl named Charlotte (a character from Grahame's The Golden Age) and a grown-up character find mysterious reptilian footprints in the snow and follow them, eventually finding a man who ...
The perfectly crafted rhyming text is ideal for reading aloud. And the ambitious princess is a great touch." [1] Zog has also been reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, [2] Booklist, [3] and the School Library Journal. [3] In 2010, the story book won the Galaxy National Book Award. [4]
The novel is about a young boy, Elmer, who runs away to Wild Island to rescue a baby dragon. Both a Newbery Honor Book and an ALA Notable Book, [1] it is the first book of a trilogy whose other titles are Elmer and the Dragon and The Dragons of Blueland. All three were published in a 50-year anniversary edition as Three Tales of My Father's Dragon.
The Harper Hall trilogy is a series of three science fiction novels by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey. [2] They are part of the Dragonriders of Pern series as it is known today, 26 books by Anne or her son Todd McCaffrey or daughter Gigi McCaffrey as of 2018.