The Baby Dragon-Tamer
Digital version – browse, print or download
BfK Newsletter
Receive the latest news & reviews direct to your inbox!
Cover Story
This issue’s cover illustration by Nick Price is from Pongwiffy, Back on Track by Kaye Umansky. Kaye Umansky is interviewed by Julia Eccleshare. Thanks to Bloomsbury for their help with this May cover.
PDF
Printer-friendly version
Send to friend
The Baby Dragon-Tamer
One night a very large and very noisy dragon turns up in a baby’s room. The dragon is looking for treasure, but eventually, charmed by the baby’s refusal to be awed by him, he realises he has a greater treasure in the baby. Fearnley’s softly drifting line and watercolour flow across the landscape-format double-page spreads, capturing the interaction between dragon and baby; this is especially effective in the scenes where the dragon takes the baby with him to fly through the night sky.
Very young children will be reassured by a comforting story in which the monster turns out to have a soft heart.
