TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robertson, M. P.
TI  - The great dragon rescue
SN  - 9780803729735
U1  - Fiction ROB-M 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New York
PB  - Dial Books for Young Readers
KW  - Young Learners
KW  - Dragons
KW  - Witches
KW  - Picture books
KW  - Rescue work
KW  - Adventure stories
N1  - After being flown away by his dragon to a dark forest, George is told by Papa Dragon that his baby has been captured by a wicked witch and asks for his help in getting him back--resulting in George using all his wit and courage to come up with the perfect plan to fight the bad magic they will all soon have to face!
a young boy, George, finds a dragon egg in a chicken coop. When the hatchling emerges, George trains it in the essential arts of fire breathing, damsel rescuing, and so on. This companion story finds George once again in the coop, where he is startled by the reappearance of his dragon friend, who returns in a rush, scoops up boy and coop, and flies off to "the land where everything began with Once upon a time." Upon alighting, the friends rescue a baby dragon from a wicked witch and discover a sweet surprise about the baby's parentage. The threads tying the story elements together are too slender; children unfamiliar with the first book may be particularly confused by the dragon's sudden appearance at the book's outset. But Robertson's watercolour illustrations are a delight, rendering the fairy-tale world's menacing, frog-eating witch; shimmering enchanted castle; and paunchy, sweet-tempered dragon in equally winsome detail
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