Title Dragonworld: Secrets of the Dragon Domain Series --- Author S.A. Caldwell Illustrated By Various sources Publisher Running Press - 2011 First Printing Running Press - 2011 Category Children Warnings None Main Characters N/A Main Elements Dragons

To all those who seek to know the dragon, pay heed to the legends and lore gathered together in this curious volume - for there is wisdom within, and rare secrets for those brave enough to keep them...

Take a journey beyond the furthest reaches of the world you know - to the domain of the dragons. Form the glittering peaks of frozen mountains to dripping caverns hidden deep underground, Dragonworld charts the natural habitats of the mighty and ancient creatures. Marvel at the razor-sharpness of the huge talons, the jewel-like patterns of their scales, the power of their magic, and the depths of their wisdom.

In the land where dragonfire lights up the skies and only the brave dare to venture, many dark secrets wait to be discovered.

A book that claims to be actual research of a dragon specialist. Now, this doesn't chronicle actual dragon folklore, but rather invents some dragonology of it's own. But just the same, it's fun to read. I didn't like the CG generated dragon images, somehow the dragons looked fake, just pasted into the background of the pages they were on. Or like they were some kind of creepy mannequin (as can happen with human CG, it looks real, but just a little wrong, so adds a creepy factor). However the CG of the dragon artifacts like claws and fangs looked extremely realistic, like someone took a picture of actual specimens. It was almost like I could reach into the page and pick one of them up. The pencil illustrations are beautiful though, as are the decorative touches to the pages, the sepia colouring giving the book a sense of age.

While this book is not the only one claiming to be a dragon text book, it would still be fun for a kid to pretend he was in a Harry Potter like wizard school studying his dragon lore with a book like this. You won't learn much about actual historical dragonlore, so hopefully that doesn't confuse kids as to real historical mythology, but rather they can take the ideas from this book and come up wih their own dragons! I've even seen a fake documentary on dragons, which I had expected would talk about actual dragon mythology and not invent some "real" dragons to film. I generally find these fakes kind of silly, but I can also see how they might be kind of fun as long as you know it's fake fun (unlike that Shark Week documentary that tried to trick people into believing some giant ancient prehistoric shark still existed).