THE DRAGON OF MITH – World’s Most Lovable Dragon

A new DRAGON has arrived and he’s like no other DRAGON you’ve read about before.

• He’s blue & shiny.

• He’s big-hearted and burps.

• He’s THE DRAGON OF MITH.

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“No one heard him. No one saw him. He came in the night, in the middle of the night, when even the owls were dreaming.”

THE DRAGON MITH was Awarded an Honour Book Prize (runner-up) in the Australian Children’s Book of the Year Awards – Younger Readers 1990. See http://cbca.org.au/9099.htm

Read to: 5 years old and upward.   Read alone: 9 years old and upward.

This book has its villains, wicked deeds and nail-biting moments, but at heart it’s a tale in which gentleness, understanding and good manners triumph. And a whole of lot silliness is revealed.

‘…the instant they saw him, they all started to shriek, “It’s a dragon! It’s a dragon!” Which was pretty silly. He was as tall as a haystack and as long as three semi-trailers. Anyone with two eyes could see he was a dragon.

… Mayor Pennyworth turned white and nearly swallowed his teeth.

“Run for your lives!” he ordered.’

For the first time since electing him Mayor, the townspeople did exactly as he suggested. They lifted their night-shirts and ran like racehorses, round and round the market square. That wasn’t what he’d meant for them to do. But people in crisis often do peculiar things, like run around in circles.

One person doesn’t run away – the sensible young turkey-herder, Miss Krissy.

‘… she hurried to the market square to look into this dragon business for herself. And there he was, a huge scaly creature with his head on his forearm and his crinkly old eyelids closed over his eyes.

… She asked herself calmly, “The first time you saw a turkey, did it frighten you?”

“Indeed it did,” she answered. She remembered the incident well.

… “But are you afraid of turkeys now?” she asked herself and answered, “Good heavens, no. Think of this dragon as a turkey,” she told herself. “Give yourself time to get used to him.”

So she sat on a barrel under the bakery awning, and allowed herself a full fifteen minutes for the task.’

What she discovers is something quite wonderful. He’s not at all what everyone thinks he is. No one is in danger from him. But he may be in danger from them.

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