Title How to Draw a Dragon Series --- Author Douglas Florian Illustrated By Douglas Florian Publisher Beach Lane Books - 2015 First Printing Beach Lane Books - 2015 Category Children Warnings None Website N/A Main Characters N/A Main Elements Dragons

If you open up this book, you will see how dragons look. They have skin with shiny scales, spiny backs, and spiky tails, sharp teeth in a giant jaw - and best of all, they're fun to draw!

The books guides children how to draw dragons, from their spikes to their wings, from their legs to their fire, and it does so in rhyme (which sometimes results in oddities like a dragon playing violin so it could rhyme with chin). The illustrations are extremely childish, but then no child wants to presented with perfectly drawn dragons that they cannot hope to achieve. I know if I were younger I'd actually be trying out the instructions and drawing some dragons based on this book, including putting together a dragon art show, whether with my friends or I'd just fill the walls with my own art.

From a more adult perspective I could see that Florian included both boys and girls drawing dragons, and from various cultures and races.