The Book of Dragons

by E. Nesbit, Francis Rabelais (Illustrator), H Granville Fell (Illustrator)

Overview

Review from "Literature", Volume 7, December 8, 1900:

FOR those who are juvenile and early there is an enormous number of amusing books this year. We have already written of the advance guard, and now the main army is upon us. In the forefront Mrs. Nesbit offers us THE BOOK OF DRAGONS, which has the advantage of being decorated by Mr. H. Granville Fell and illustrated by Mr. H. R. Millar, who has always been particularly happy in his work of a fairy nature. In these stories of eight "dreadful dragons," the quaint mixture of phantasmagoria and the things belonging to the world we consider real is done in a way that children always welcome; the personages of each little history are agreeable, the moral, although merely suggested, is of value.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798823155137
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	11/18/2022
Pages:	60
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.12(d)
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924) was an English writer and poet, who published her books for children as E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on more than 60 such books. She was also a political activist and co-founder of the Fabian Society, a socialist organisation later affiliated to the Labour Party.

Nesbit's biographer, Julia Briggs, names her "the first modern writer for children", who "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 credits Nesbit with inventing the children's adventure story. Noël Coward was an admirer. In a letter to an early biographer, Noel Streatfeild wrote, "She had an economy of phrase and an unparalleled talent for evoking hot summer days in the English countryside."