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| Original Title: | A Book Dragon |
| ISBN: | 0380707691 (ISBN13: 9780380707690) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Donn Kushner
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 197 pages Rating: 4.01 | 256 Users | 42 Reviews
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| Title | : | A Book Dragon |
| Author | : | Donn Kushner |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 197 pages |
| Published | : | March 1991 by Avon Books (Mm) (first published 1987) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Dragons. Young Adult. Historical. Historical Fiction |
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How have I not reviewed this delightful book before? A tragedy!This charming, charming tale is the story of a dragon who becomes obsessed with watching a monk illuminate beautiful book. Dragons, you see, can make themselves larger or smaller, depending on what they eat. A steady diet of humans will make them as large as a cottage, but this dragon, in order to watch the manuscript taking shape, starts eating smaller and smaller prey: vermin, insects, etc, so that he is small enough to hide within the pages of the book. It becomes his treasure, and he guards it through the years. So charming! If this book had been written post-Harry Potter, it would have been considered YA or even middle grade, but when I discovered it, since it was fantasy it was shelved in the adult section. (Another tragedy!)
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Ratings: 4.01 From 256 Users | 42 ReviewsComment On Regarding Books A Book Dragon
Great writing. A whimsical book about a good dragon who decides to guard an illuminated book as his treasure. Not sure that kids today would like it esp. if they were trying to find books about dragons. Nonesuch doesn't do much but sleep and watch the centuries go by until he discovers himself and his illuminated book has come to America-on a plane. He stays awake now and saves the bookstore owner who has bought the box with the book from a greedy man who wants to build a hotel on his property.(Available on Open Library.)Read it twice now, not charmed. Absolutely nothing wrong with it, but not for me.Maybe too episodic. No real substance; we just skim along the centuries. I do like the butterflies. And I like that a certain villain is also a bibliophile. But I just kept waiting for something to reach into my heart or soul and nothing ever did.Not sure of the audience, either. Totally fine for kids age 10 up, but no child characters, and in many ways smart enough for adults. Maybe if
Dragons must have a treasure to guard, or so says Nonesuchs grandmother. But when Nonesuch finds himself alone and getting smaller, he embraces his new size and finds a new sort of treasure.Over the course of the novel, Nonesuch travels through a number of time periods, stopping for longer stays in a Medieval monastery, and then again in the modern era. On the way, he passes through the War of the Roses, the Black Plague, the Fire of London, the dawn of the Age of Reason, and World War II
This unique book is one of my favorite books of all time, and among the best dragon books ever written. A glorious and detailed fantasy about a smallish dragon and his treasure - a medieval illustrated manuscript - that has the flavor of a legend or a classic George MacDonald fairy tale. I re-read it every couple of years.
Exactly the type of book I would have loved as a kid, and thoroughly enjoyed as an adult.
This is the first book I've read by Kushner, and, I must say, I love his style of writing. Here he tells the story of a dragon, Nonesuch, from his life in as a youngster five hundred years ago to today, as he guards his treasure, an illuminated manuscript of the Book of Hours. Kushner introduces some dragon lore that I've never heard before, such as a dragon's ability to change size by eating or fasting allows him to hide in modern times, and a dragon's being visible in the flames of a fire.
How have I not reviewed this delightful book before? A tragedy!This charming, charming tale is the story of a dragon who becomes obsessed with watching a monk illuminate beautiful book. Dragons, you see, can make themselves larger or smaller, depending on what they eat. A steady diet of humans will make them as large as a cottage, but this dragon, in order to watch the manuscript taking shape, starts eating smaller and smaller prey: vermin, insects, etc, so that he is small enough to hide within
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