Title There was an Old Dragon who Swallowed a Knight Series --- Author Penny Parker Klosterman Illustrator Ben Mantle Publisher Random House Books for Young Readers - 2015 First Printing Random House Books for Young Readers - 2015 Category Children Warnings None Main Characters --- Main Elements Dragons

A knight, a steed, a squire, a cook, a lady, a castle, a moat, plus one very hungry old dragon add up to a hilarious and rollicking tale about a dragon who just can't keep his mouth closed...at least not until he eats almost everything in the kingdom.

It's not polite!

A silly take on the Old Lady who Swallowed a fly (but then the original poem was kind of silly too). I won't say if the knight ever gets back out again, but that must have been one HUNGRY dragon. That steed, with all speed, made me laugh, and the poor squire that had the impossible job of trying to get the steed to calm down, quite a challenge considering they'd been devoured by a dragon! Of course, then you need to feed the squire so he can care for the steed, so you need a cook, and then a lady to tell everyone what to do, and a castle so she would have somewhere to live...seems like once you start it's hard to stop!