About this eBook
My Father's Dragon is a 1948 children’s novel by Ruth Stiles Gannett. The illustrations are by her stepmother Ruth Chrisman Gannett and hand-drawn in black and white with a grease crayon on grained paper. The novel is about a young boy Elmer, who runs away to Wild Island to rescue a baby dragon. He encounters many frightening sights, but his quick thinking and ingenuity prove no match for anyone standing in his way.
About the author
Ruth Stiles Gannett (born August 12, 1923) is an American children's writer best known for My Father's Dragon and its two sequels—collectively sometimes called the My Father's Dragon or the Elmer and the Dragons series or trilogy.
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