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Summary: My Father's Dragon
Review: The book "My Father's Dragon" was a very good book. I liked the book because it was interesting and exciting. Also, I liked the it because the book was fiction. Another thing I liked about the book is that it was an adventure book. That is why I liked the book.The best part of the book was at the end when Elmer and the dragon were flying away from Wild Island. I liked that part of the book the best because all the animals that had tried to kill Elmer were going to be eaten by the crocodiles. Also I liked that part of the book the best is because Elmer and the dragon got away from the island. That is what I think is the best part of the book. One of the most vivid parts of the book was the setting because it was very descriptive and I could picture it in my head. Another vivid part of the book was the characters, because they all had their own unique personalities and qualities. Those are what I think are the most vivid parts of the book.
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Summary: My Fathers Dragon
Review: This Book is a fiction story about a kid named Elmer, who loves to go on adventures and one of his adventures is rescueing a baby drogon who has been captured by animals, and taken to Wild Island to be used as a way to get across the river there. Elmer hers this news from a stray ally cat that he finds one day, and decides he going to run away and go to Wild Island to freethis dragon. Elmer has to outsmart a buch of animals to get to the dragon but it's easy for him because he's relly clever. I thought the book was very exciting and fun to read. It the kind of book you don't want to put down and want to read it over and over agan.
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Summary: My Father goes on....
Review: This book is about a boy named Elmer Elevator. The story is told by his child, his daughter, we think. He goes on a big adventure, trying to rescue a baby dragon. We think it is fiction, because dragons are not really real and animals can not talk. A cat told Elmer about Wild Island and Tangerina, and the dragon who was there that was tied up in a rope. But he also told the father, Elmer Elevator, that there was ferocious animals on the island. Elmer Elevator frees the dragon because he was a very smart boy.
We liked this story because it is a really good story about a dragon and a father when he was a nine year old boy. It was a LITTLE funny and it was a really BIG adventure.
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Summary: Dragon Rescue
Review: This book is by Ruth Stiles Gannet. It is fiction because a dragon is in it and animals talk in it. Ruth Stiles Gannet wrote My Father's Dragon a couple years after finishing college in 1944. This book was a great success and won a Newberry award. The main character is a boy named Elmer. Elmer wishes he could fly. He finds a stray cat that knows a dragon that can take him on a flying ride. Before he can do that, Elmer has to free the dragon from Wild Island that has an extremely thick forest. The dragon is a slave of the animals in the jungle and is used to fly them across the river on the island. To free the dragon, Elmer has to get by vicious animals that want to eat him. My Father's Dragon makes me feel that I'm in a jungle getting chased by ferocious animals. I loved reading this book because Elmer goes on a gigantic adventure. I recommend this book for people who like reading adventurous stories. Also, it won the Newberry award.
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Summary: Dragon Rescue
Review: This book is by Ruth Stiles Gannett. It is fiction because a dragon is in it and animals talk in it. Ruth Stiles Gannett wrote My Father's Dragon a couple years after finishing college in 1944. This book was a great success and won a Newberry award. The main character is a boy named Elmer. Elmer wishes he could fly. He finds a stray cat that knows a dragon that can take him on a flying ride. Before he can do that, Elmer has to free the dragon from Wild Island that has an extremely thick forest. The dragon is a slave of the animals in the jungle and is used to fly them across the river on the island. To free the dragon, Elmer has to get by vicious animals that want to eat him. My Father's Dragon makes me feel that I'm in a jungle getting chased by ferocious animals. I loved reading this book because Elmer goes on a gigantic adventure. I recommend this book for people who like reading adventurous stories. Also, it won the Newberry award.
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Summary: This book was really good
Review: This book is so good. It's fun to read because he meets a cat and wants to fly a plane, so the cat tells him to go rescue the dragon. There were some things that were so funny, like a lion with braids and bows in his hair! When I asked my Mom if there was any more books, I was glad to hear that there was more. Devon age 7
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Summary: Every person should read this book.
Review: This is a great book because it was adventurous. It was a cool book! At first we didn't think Elmer, which is the father, could get the dragon. You should read this book if you like adventures and animals.
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Summary: what a great book!
Review: this is a very fun story about a boy who goes to rescue a baby dragon on wild island he also finds and tricks some animals along the way
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Summary: The perfect first chapter book
Review: This was the first chapter book I read to my son, when he was 4, and I couldn't have found a better choice. The story is simple and easy to follow — a nine-year-old boy saves an enslaved baby dragon and then flies home on the dragon's back. The book's language is simple and direct. And there's a black and white drawing on almost every other page, which is perfect, because most young children still need a picture to look at while they're listening. The best thing about the book for me was that even though there's plenty of action (mostly involving the little boy outsmarting a series of wild animals in order to reach the dragon), there's nothing the least bit scary here. That was very important to me as the mother of a four-year-old. The book was written in the forties, and it has a sweet, gentle, old-fashioned quality that it's hard to find in any form of entertainment for young children today. (Even Disney is too intense for a lot of four-year-olds.) It has the kind of innocence most of us would like our children to be able to hang on to for a few years. My son loved the book so much we read it over and over again, and went on to read the other two books in the series (Elmer and the Dragon and The Dragons of Blueland) many times as well. Years later, when he was in third grade, his teacher mentioned to me that she was hunting for a chapter book to read to the class, but wasn't having much luck. Everything she looked at seemed beyond the attention span of many of the kids in her class. I told her about My Father's Dragon, but I also said it probably wasn't exciting enough to hold the attention of third graders. But she tried it anyway, and later told me that kids who had never shown any interest in books were reminding her every day to read another chapter. She, too, went on to read the whole series. It's a great introduction to chapter books. More important, it's a lovely, gentle book to share with a child.
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