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- Herausgeber: Swift Press
- Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
- Serie: My Father's Dragon
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021
Book three in the My Father's Dragon trilogy Elmer is safe and sound at home in Evergreen Park while Boris is heading to Blueland, where he'll reunite with his family. There's just one problem: hunters have trapped Boris' family and plan to capture and sell them to zoos all over the world! When Boris discovers the hunters' plan, he knows exactly who to go to for help - Elmer Elevator, whose creative plans and schemes always save the day. With time ticking away and the hunters ready to pounce, will Elmer rescue The Dragons of Blueland in time?
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SWIFT PRESS
First published in Great Britain by Swift Press 2021
Published by arrangement with Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
My Father’s Dragon and design is a trademark of Ruth Stiles Gannett.
Copyright © 1951 by Random House, Inc. Copyright renewed 1979 by Ruth Stiles Gannett and Ruth Chrisman Gannett.
The right of Ruth Stiles Gannett and Ruth Chrisman Gannett to be identified as the Author of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN: 978-1-80075-044-9
eISBN: 978-1-80075-088-3
WHAT WENT BEFORE
Once a baby dragon flew away from home to ride on a cloud. And he fell off onto a place called Wild Island, hurting one wing so badly that he could not fly back to his cloud. The fierce wild animals of Wild Island tied him to a rope, and when his wing got well, they made him fly them back and forth across a muddy river.
An old alley cat exploring the island saw the miserable dragon. They became good friends, and she promised to help him escape. When she went home she told Elmer Elevator, a brave boy of nine, all about the dragon. He set off to the rescue and tricked the wild animals, cutting the dragon’s rope just as the animals were about to catch him, too. He jumped onto the dragon, and off they flew.
Then Elmer remembered that he’d better start back home to Nevergreen City. The dragon offered to fly him, but a terrible storm forced them down over the ocean. Just by luck they landed on a sand bar near an island, and when they waded ashore they found that only canaries lived there. Elmer met an old canary friend who introduced them to the canary king, King Can XI. The King asked if they would dig up an old treasure chest, explaining that he was suffering from the dreadful disease of curiosity and could not get well until he had seen that treasure.
Elmer and the dragon finally found the treasure. Everybody joined in a wonderful celebration, and afterwards Elmer and the dragon flew off to Nevergreen City. The dragon left his good friend on a wharf, and started back to his own home in Blueland.
CONTENTS
1. The Hiding Place
2. Mr. and Mrs. Wagonwheel
3. The Men on the Slope
4. In the Cave
5. Back to Nevergreen City
6. Elmer to the Rescue
7. The Dragons of Blueland
8. To Spiky Mountain Range
9. Blueland
10. Escape
11. “The Dragon Affair”
Chapter One
THE HIDING PLACE
Over the harbor, past the lighthouse, away from Nevergreen City flew the happy baby dragon. “I’m on my way home to the great high mountains of Blueland!” he shouted to the evening skies. “At last I’m off to find my six sisters and seven brothers, and my dear gigantic mother and father.”
He sped northward over the coast of Popsicornia. He flew all night through the dark scudding clouds toward Awful Desert, which surrounded the mountains of Blueland. “I must be careful,” he thought to himself, “that nobody sees me on my way, but I’ll have to stop and rest somewhere. Where can I hide? I’ve grown as big as a buffalo, and my blue-and-yellow stripes and goldcolored wings will certainly attract attention.”
The darkness faded into morning, and looking down he saw green meadows, fields of corn and potatoes, a road wandering past barns and houses, and a brook zigzagging back and forth across the road. “Perhaps I can find a bridge to hide under,” thought the dragon, “but I’ll have to hurry. Soon the farmers will be up.”
He swooped, and coasted down to a place where the road crossed the brook. Gently he landed and pattered down the bank to hide underneath the bridge. But there wasn’t any bridge! The road had been built right over the brook, and the water flowed under the road through a culvert, a long round tunnel. And the culvert was too small for a dragon to hide in.
“I’ll try another crossing,” he said to himself, scrambling up the bank, and galloping down the road as fast as he could to the next crossing. But here, too, a very small culvert carried the water under the road.
“Oh dear, oh dear!” he muttered as he galloped on farther between a yellow farmhouse and a big yellow barn. Just as he was passing he heard a rooster scream and a window slam shut in the house. “Where shall I hide? Where shall I hide?” he panted.
And then he came to a third crossing. He tumbled down the bank and found another culvert, but a big culvert, big enough for a baby dragon to hide in. He crawled inside, wading through shallow water that cooled his hot, sandy feet.
