Being Friends with Dragons
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
A 2023 Children’s Book Council Children’s Favorites Award Winner
A 2023 CBC Teacher Favorites Winner
Dragons can be great friends . . . most of the time.
Dragons always know the best games to play, the perfect way to toast a marshmallow, and how to get that cookie out of a cookie jar undetected. While dragons can be good friends, they sometimes forget how. They can yell, stomp their feet, shoot flames out of their mouths, and not be a very good listener. It can be hard to be friends with a dragon, but with some deep breaths and calming words, you and your dragon can learn how to be best friends forever.
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Relationships with dragons can be fraught, posits this picture book, in which Locke and Ewen explore all the ins and outs. Able to "toast the perfect marshmallows" and "help scratch your back," dragons can be ideal buddies—unless they get mad, in which case they resort to fire-breathing and earthquake-producing stomps. If this happens, Locke's knowing guidebook-like narration acknowledges, "You might sulk and cross your arms!/ You might cry and say mean things!" Fortunately, dragons also know how to make amends, and a series of didactic examples present the multidimensional, fancifully hued creatures managing their emotions, taking turns, and being polite. Ewen's loose textural graphics feature flatly portrayed children of varying skin tones, and capture chaotic but congenial dragon-human camaraderie with a winking hilarity that suits this mock-serious manual, which offers takeaways for any friendship. Ages 4–8.
