The Book of Dragons

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Eight delightful stories of different magical dragons are enclosed in this utterly enjoyable volume. While it is basically designed for the little ones, there are a few grownups who will come across it and find it tempting to peer into. A very beguiling and fascinating hour to read.

Attractive illustrations were done by the very artistic Harold Robert Millar, the Scottish designer and illustrator popular for his distinct and illusory sketches. Written in the 20th century, the book was given credits from both parents and children. Most of the stories are situated in modern urban England, while others go in the conventional Dragon Country, swaddled in smog and glum zones.

Edith Nesbit was an English writer and poet. She wrote her children’s books with the name of E. Nesbit.

She was also a political activist and a co-founder of the Fabian Society, a socialist organisation later associated to the Labour Party.

Nesbit wrote approximately 40 books for children, such as novels, collections of stories and picture books. She collaborated with others, writing around so much more.

In her biography by Julia Briggs, Nesbit was “the first modern writer for children”: Nesbit “helped to reverse the great tradition of children’s literature inaugurated by Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald and Kenneth Grahame, in turning away from their secondary worlds to the tough truths to be won from encounters with things-as-they-are, previously the province of adult novels.” Briggs also tributes Nesbit with having produced the children’s fiction. Noël Coward was a huge fan of hers and, in a letter to an early biographer Noel Streatfeild, stated “she had an economy of phrase, and an unparalleled talent for evoking hot summer days in the English countryside.”

She was also known for her books such as The Story of the Treasure Seekers and The Wouldbegoods, which both retell the stories of the Bastables, and the story of The Railway Children.
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