The Dragon Companion
Want to know your wurms from your wyverns? Should you feed your dragon arsenic or blood, or tempt it with sake? Everything you want to know about dragons in one beautifully illustrated volume.
People have been telling stories about dragons for more than 3000 years. Five-headed dragons, fire-breathing dragons. As big as mountains, as small as dogs. Dragons that can be moody, dragons that are brave or cowardly, smart or stupid, good or downright evil. Here is an encyclopedia of the most amazing dragon stories ever told - stories of famous dragons and dragon-slayers. Read everything about dragons from blood and claws to the wicked dragon king of Enoshima. Go around the world, back in time and into the fantastical.
Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year, Younger Readers (2008)
About the Dragonkeeper Series
Books in series order
- 1.Dragonkeeper(2003)
- 2.Garden of the Purple Dragon(2005)
- 3.Dragon Moon(2007)
- 4.Blood Brothers(2012)
- 5.Shadow Sister(2014)
- 6.Bronze Bird Tower(2017)
- +Dragon Dawn(2007)
- +The Dragon Companion(2007)
Reading age: 8+ years
This series should be read in order.
The multi-award winning books in the Dragonkeeper series, combine an enthralling mix of ancient Chinese culture and history, magic, myth and fantasy. The story is set during the Han dynasty of China, and follows the adventures of Ping and an aging dragon, Danzi. Although Ping is just a humble young slave girl, she finds the strength and courage to make an epic and perilous journey with Danzi, across China.