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Dragons: Truth, Myth And Legend written by David Passes and illustrated by Wayne Anderson
01/08/2005 . Source: Geoff Willmetts 
pub: Chrysalis Children's Books. 45 page softcover. Price: £ 5.99 (UK). ISBN: 1-84458-476-3. Buy from Amazon US - Buy from Amazon UK
nb: US titles may only be available from Amazon US, and UK titles from Amazon UK. check out website: www.chrysalisbooks.co.uk
This book came into our review column as a cross-connection from our friends at Paper Tiger to one of the other departments at publisher Chrysalis. Although it's aimed at the children's market, it also features dragons. If you're indoctrinating your off-spring into this fantasy area, then this book should be considered looking at.
This is a reprint of the 1993 edition and it contains 13 short stories of people who have had to fight dragons to maintain territory or prevent human sacrifices to appease the beasties. Often as not, the heroes involved in such actions didn't always survive such encounters neither. These mythological stories come from all across the world from England to Greece to China. It's an interesting thing about world mythology that dragons play such a large part in them all. It isn't as though all these places or people had ever even heard of the most dangerousm let alone name, the Komodo Dragon. Saying that, although dragons share reptilian characteristics, there are none that share their wings or ability to breath fire as well.
Wayne Anderson's artwork serves the short stories in a variety of styles and mostly shaped to fit around the text although there are some full and double-page pictures. This book might not as adventurous as some dragon illustrations we see in the adult artbooks but they won't sent your kids to bed with nightmares neither. If the book stirs their little hearts, then it'll be the start of the influence that might take them more into the fantasy genre.
vGF Willmetts
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