Title Pet Dragon Series --- Author Sally Symes Illustrated By M.P. Robertson Publisher Frances Lincoln Children's Books - 2016 First Printing Frances Lincoln Children's Books - 2016 Category Children Warnings None Main Characters N/A Main Elements Dragons Website mprobertson.com

Do you dare to care for a dragon?

Here is the ultimate dragon-care guid, featuring four brave children and their dream dragons:
The Swamp Lounger
The Lightning Bolt
The Ridgeback Savage
and the Dinky Diddums.

With top tips and fierce facts to help you survive, the instructions include...

• Dragonatomy
• Choosing an egg
• Feeding
• Grooming
• Visiting the vet
• Flight school

Travel the world with your dragon and remember that a dragon is for life - or for as long as you last!

Good luck!

I went a little silly in the library the other day, grabbing all the dragon picture books they had. I must say that by far this one had the highest quality illustrations. I don't know why, just because it is a book for little kids, the pictures have to look like they were drawn by those kids!

This one attempts to be a factual guidebook on the care and feeding of a pet dragon. It starts with a checklist to see if you are in a position to take care of a dragon, like is your house big enough, or are you insane. In fact, as I've been reading the entire Pern series by Anne McCaffrey I already knew dragons require a lot of maintenance!

The book is broken down by important topics such as "Dragonatomy" where you find out a dragon has three stomachs and some foods take longer to digest than others (like elephants). Or that they do have a brain, but it's puce-green, wrinkled and rarely used. There's also information on choosing and egg (make sure to buy only from a reputable egg-thief, you'll be able to tell since they still have most of their limbs)

The book can get a little gross at times though (the picture of mashed rats to feed your young dragon was rather disturbing) and there is a fair amount of poop jokes (well, what do you expect if you feed your dragon curry...), in the end I felt it took silly a little too far into disgusting. On the other hand, the thought of having to feed your dragon cute bunnies as treats might encourage kids to seek another pet...