Three Tales of My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett - ISBN: 9780679889113
Hardcover
Boy and dragon’s epic adventures rescued from peril, over and over.

Three Tales of My Father's Dragon

Three Tales

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  • Hardcover

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    15 March 1998

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Summary

Three timeless tales in one! Follow the adventures of a boy and his dragon in this beloved trilogy that begins with the Newbery Honor Book My Father’s Dragon, now a Netflix animated film featuring the voices of Jacob Tremblay, Gaten Matarazzo, Whoopi Goldberg, Alan Cumming, and more.

“Irresistible … a real delight.” - The New Yorker

First published between 1948 and 1951, My Father’s Dragon, Elmer and the Dragon, and The Dragons of Bluela…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780679889113
ISBN-10:0679889116
Author:Ruth Stiles Gannett, Berman
Publisher:Random House USA Inc
Imprint:Random House Books for Young Readers
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:256
Edition:50th
Release Date:15 March 1998
Weight:374g
Dimensions:211mm x 165mm x 22mm
Series:My Father's Dragon
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Critics Review

Praise for My Father’s Dragon

“Here is a real delight–a nonsense tale in which the ingenuity of the humor and the logic of the nonsense are irresistible.”The New Yorker

“The power of My Father’s Dragon lies in the author’s assurances that while the adults in our lives can set things right some of the time, children will also become strong and clever enough to take care of themselves, and, when the time comes, will rescue their own children.”The Horn Book

About The Author

Ruth Stiles Gannett

Ruth Stiles Gannett

Ruth Stiles Gannett authored My Father’s Dragon just a few years after her 1944 graduation from Vassar College. An immediate success, it was named 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. In 2022, My Father’s Dragon premiered as an animated film on Netflix. Ruth Stiles Gannett died in 2024, at the age of one hundred.

Ruth Chrisman Gannett

Ruth Chrisman Gannett was already a well-established artist and illustrator when she began collaborating with her stepdaughter on My Father’s Dragon and its sequels. Her pictures for these books are perhaps her most enduring work. Her illustrations can also be seen in the first edition of John Steinbeck’s Tortilla Flat and in Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey. Ruth Chrisman Gannett was married to Lewis Gannett, daily book critic for the New York Herald Tribune. She died in 1979.

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