Publisher Description
One cold and rainy day, a boy named Elmer befriends an old alley cat who tells him a way he can fly. All he has to do is rescue an enslaved baby Dragon from a mysterious island inhabited by all sorts of wild animals. Intrigued, the young boy, armed with only his wits and a knapsack of essential implements, embarks on a perilous journey to Wild Island to free the Dragon and fly. This adventure story by Ruth Stiles Gannett has delighted and entertained children from the day it was first published.
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About Ruth Stiles Gannett
Ruth Stiles Gannett wrote My Father’s Dragon just a few years
after her graduation from Vassar College in 1944. It was an immediate success,
becoming a Newbery Honor Book, and was soon followed by two sequels, Elmer and the Dragon and The Dragons of Blueland. All three
dragon stories have been continuously in print since their publication. The
author’s other books include Katie and
the Sad Noise and The Wonderful
House-Boat-Train. She is married to the artist and calligrapher Peter Kahn.
They have seven daughters and seven grandchildren.
About Noelle Dupuis
Noelle Dupuis is an accomplished voice actor and audiobook narrator based in Ontario, Canada. For Voices in the Wind Audio Theatre, she has read children’s classic stories, including The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, The Beatrix Potter Collection, Thumbelina, The Wild Swans, The Princess Collection, and The Hans Christian Andersen Collection, to name a few. Blackstone Publishing distributes all these titles. Noelle teaches drama and music at her local Elementary School when she isn’t narrating audiobooks.