Title The Snow Dragon Series --- Author Vivian French Illustrated By Chris Fisher Publisher Random House, Inc - 1999 First Printing Random House, Inc - 1999 Category Childrens Warnings None Main Characters Little Tuft Main Elements Dragons

When the power-crazy Most Royal of Fire Dragons decides he wants to rule not only his own hot southern kingdom but also the icy wastes of the Snow Dragons' northern territory, catastrophe occurs. The Fire Dragon ignores the warning from the powerful Book that Twolegs will eventually destroy his kind, and sets out crisping and frazzling the world. Little Tuft, a Twoleg, can't ignore the warning and enlists the help of the last remaining Snow Dragon in a thrilling and magical quest to save the world from burning up...

An entrancing story, lyrically told and gorgeously illustrated, which will be appreciated on a variety of levels by children from pre-school to 8-year-olds and older.

Ok, to be fair by the time I got around to reading this book I had read about 10 other children's dragon books, so I was getting kind of tired. Maybe that's why I found the way this one was written felt a little all over the place. It also had more text than most of the others, and as it was getting late, I was rushing it so maybe I wasn't appreciating it as much as I could have.

A war breaks out between the Fire Dragons of the South and the Snow Dragons of the North with the humans (here called Twolegs) trapped inbetween and forced below ground to avoid the fire. But one young boy goes out to see what the world above looks like, stumbling upon a book that once belonged to the Fire Dragon King. It tells the boy how to seek out the Snow Dragon Queen slumbering in the North. The boy does so and the Queen comes to teach the Fire Dragons a lesson. The book however, doesn't seem to really take sides, slipping away before the final battle, leaving us wondering what other mischief it might be planning to stir up.

The artwork was pretty good but it almost might have worked better as a short novel it had so much going on in it.