Griffith's Guide for Dragon Masters: A Branches Special Edition (Dragon Masters)

by Tracey West, Matt Loveridge (Illustrator)

Overview

Calling all Dragon Masters! Own the official Dragon Masters guide — featuring full-color artwork on every page!

Kids love reading all about the Dragon Masters' adventures in Tracey West's bestselling Dragon Masters early chapter book series. Now fans can own the official dragon guide. This 144-page, full-color special edition features maps, information about Dragon Masters and their dragons, notes from wizards, the history of Dragon Masters, and more! This book has everything a future Dragon Master could need to know!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781338540345
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	12/03/2019
Series:	Dragon Masters Series
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	830L (what's this?)
Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

About the Author

Tracey West is the author of the New York Times bestselling series Dragon Masters, for Scholastic Branches. She has written more than 400 books for children, including the Underdogs series, illustrated by Kyla May; the Pixie Tricks series, illustrated by Xavier Bonet, and the perennially popular Pokemon chapter books. She lives with her husband, adopted dogs, and chickens in the western Catskill mountains of New York State.
MATT LOVERIDGE likes to draw subjects that expose the lighter side of life, so he loves illustrating children's books! He's the illustrator of Dragon Masters. Matt lives in Utah with his beautiful, supportive wife and their three rambunctious kids (who are a constant source of inspiration!).

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Rise of the Earth Dragon (Dragon Masters #1):

"In this first of the Dragon Masters series, vocabulary is accessible; sentences,paragraphs, and chapters are short; and dialogue moves the story along rapidly.Black-and-white sketch-type drawings add depth to the story and feelings to thecharacters (both children and dragons). Emergent readers will find happy successhere." — Booklist

"The first of a new series of early chapter books, this entry is sure to attract fans.Brief chapters, large print, lots of action, attractive illustrations in every spreadincluding a maplike panorama, an enviable protagonist — who wouldn't want to be a Dragon Master? — all combine to make an entertaining read. With plenty left to be resolved, the next entry will be eagerly sought after." — Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2019-09-24
An informational guidebook to the characters and worldbuilding of the Dragon Masters series.

It seems that Griffith of the Green Fields, the royal wizard of the kingdom of Bracken, wants to compile his wizardly research and wisdom into a book, so he has enlisted his friend "Tracey of the West" to pull together a Dragon Masters guidebook from his notes and the contributions of his other friends. The book is primarily organized into illustration-heavy two-page spreads consisting of maps, character profiles (with plenty of information on each Dragon Master's type of dragon, of course), important objects, and snippets of the world's history. The diversity among Dragon Masters is foregrounded. The book explicitly states that the Dragon Masters come from all over the world (which is reflected in their racial presentations in the full-color illustrations as well as the cultural notes and illustrations of the regions they come from). Furthermore, some have disabilities, as they are no barrier to a person's becoming a Dragon Master; all candidates need is to "have good hearts." Though most profiles provide plenty of context clues as to any given character's ethnicity and their kingdom's real-world analog, a map placing characters on continents shaped like Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania erases ambiguity. There is an inescapably "It's a Small World"-esque feel to it all, but it certainly means well. The informational format works well for reluctant and below-grade-level readers, and it will help maintain interest in the series for maturing readers more inclined to game guides than fiction.

A good resource for established fans. (Fantasy. 6-10)

Kirkus Reviews