Title Good Dragon, Bad Dragon Series --- Author Christine Nöstlinger Illustrated by Jens Rassmus Publisher NorthSouth Books - 2014 First Printing 2012 Category Children Warnings None Main Characters Finn, Good Dragon, Bad Dragon Main Elements Dragons

Two dragons and one boy equal a lot of courage!

Good Dragon and Bad Dragon are always there for Finn, and together the three are unbeatable. But when Finn's mom wants to go to the seaside, the two dragons refuse - water is for fishes (and drowning dragons). Could it be that dragons can sometimes be afraid? Fortunately, Finn's mom finds the perfect invisible solution to get the invisible dragons into the water. A hilarious and heartwarming picture book!

Good Dragon and Bad Dragon are the invisible friends of Finn. Bad Dragon isn't really bad, but he will pretend to be to protect Finn from the mean kids on the playground. Good Dragon gives Finn courage to make friends with other kids (he also blows soap bubbles out his nose). Now, the dragons come to visit Finn at his house, and sometimes they get sick, rather conveniently whenever Finn doesn't want to go somewhere with his mom and he has to stay home to take care of them. But then his mother decides they are going on a trip to the seaside, but the dragons refuse because they are afraid to drown. Finn's mom has to come up with a solution to convince the dragons to go along, otherwise Finn will miss all the fun!

It was a cute book, I didn't love the pictures but I liked how there were extra meanings behind some of the scenes, where you have a lonely boy, apparently without a father, having to find the courage to deal with the world. I'm not entirely sure why it's a good/bad dragon thing since red/green would have worked just as well, I expected the bad dragon to tempt Finn into mischief and the good one to guide him away from it.