Title Puff, the Magic Dragon Series --- Author Peter Yarrow, Lenny Lipton Illustrator Eric Puybaret Publisher Sterling - 2007 First Printing Sterling - 2007 Category Children Warnings None Main Characters Puff, Jackie Paper Main Elements Dragons Website ---

Puff, the Magic Dragon is simply one of the most beloved songs of all time—a classic that’s become as much a part of the childhood experience as Mother Goose and fairy tales. Yet singer/songwriter Peter Yarrow and co-composer Lenny Lipton have never allowed a picture book adaptation of this magical tale…until now. With Yarrow’s and Lipton’s blessing, Puff, Jackie Paper, and the land of Honalee finally live on the page. The exquisite package includes a cloth case with a tipped-in illustration and an embossed jacket with foil touches, as well as an exclusive CD featuring not only Puff, but several other songs performed by Yarrow, his daughter Bethany, and cellist Rufus Cappadocia. This is a publishing event sure to attract broad attention and please Puff’s many fans.In richly-hued paintings of the deepest sea blues and greens, Puff and his friend Jackie Paper frolic in the land of Honalee—traveling in a fantastic boat with billowed sails, climbing red castle stairs onto a balcony to meet with noble kings and princes, and watching pirate ships lower their flags for the roaring dragon. Artist Eric Puybaret has brought an entire magical world into being with enthralling landscapes, color, and characters. And everyone will love the way the art cleverly turns the song’s end, which at first seemed so sad, into a surprising and joyful moment.

You know, I know the song but never knew the lyrics (I tend not to listen to words when I listen to music) so I never realized how sad a tale this is. Puff is a dragon that lives in a land of magic where young Jackie Paper comes to visit. The artwork brings this all to life in a magical way, keep an eye on the details too, you'd be surprised what has a face on it! But then Jackie grows up and leaves the land of Honalee for good and poor Puff finds himself alone, at least until the next child dreams of a dragon of her own!