Dragons Get Colds Too

by Rebecca Roan, Charles Santoso (Illustrator)

Overview

For fans of Dragons Love Tacos comes a fresh, funny story that deals with everyone's least favorite thing: a cold.

Is your dragon sleepy? Does he have a runny nose? Does he keep sneezing fire? Unfortunately, it sounds like your dragon has a cold. But luckily, this guide will help anxious dragon owners through the challenges of caring for their sick dragon!

Balancing tongue-in-cheek humor through Charles Santoso's illustrations with gentle reassurance, this story proves that laughter really is the best medicine and will appeal to anyone who has felt under the weather.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781681190440
Publisher:	Bloomsbury USA
Publication date:	02/12/2019
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	9.80(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.10(d)
Age Range:	3 - 6 Years

About the Author

Rebecca Roan works in the book publishing division at Highlights for Children. She is a recipient of the PEN New England Children's Book Discovery Award. The inspiration for Dragons Get Colds Too came from her years of being sneezed on by tiny dragons. This is her first picture book.
www.rebeccaroan.com

Charles Santoso loves drawing things in his little journal and dreaming about funny, wondrous stories. He has illustrated several picture books, including Ida, Always, written by Caron Levis, which was mentioned in the New York Times as "an example of children's books at their best," and The Snurtch and I Don't Like Koala, both written by Sean Ferrell. He has also illustrated Wishtree, a New York Times bestselling chapter book by Katherine Applegate.
www.charlessantoso.com

Editorial Reviews

Humorous . . . readers are sure to see some parallels here, especially if there are any sick toddlers in the house, and will chuckle along.” —Kirkus Reviews

“A light-hearted, charming guide” —BCCB

"A silly, good-hearted read." - Booklist Online

From the Publisher

2018-09-30

A little girl with a sick dragon uses a guidebook to nurse it back to health.

A human woman in stereotypical doctor garb doles out expert advice via a Dr. Spock-like manual. She nurses her own ill dragon, an orange one with yellow ridges down its back and gray wings, as an example. But the child reading the guidebook finds that the advice is a bit off, and her tweaks and real-life experience are juxtaposed, hers on white-backgrounded pages, the expert's on colored ones. Step 1 is to definitively diagnose your dragon with a cold. While the pages that follow don't directly reflect that process, they are humorous nonetheless: A "Fact" box explains that dragons need alternatives to tissues (too likely to ignite). A companion "Tip" is to have extras of your own clothing about, as dragons don't wear sleeves. The tongue-in-cheek digital illustrations belie the easygoing tone of these notes (taped to the pages) and show the girl struggling with a disgustingly snotty dragon (green with orange ridges and dark green wings). Indeed, adult readers are sure to see some parallels here, especially if there are any sick toddlers in the house, and will chuckle along, though younger readers may miss the understated humor entirely depending upon their maturity level (challenging vocabulary may require an extra assist from grown-ups: "distraction," "harsh critics," "adequately," "amusement," etc.). The protagonist presents white and the doctor-author presents black.

Humorous, but it doesn't fill the bill for distracting little listeners from their own colds. (Picture book. 5-8)

Kirkus Reviews