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Dragons Are Singing Tonight
Author: Jack Prelutsky

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Publisher: Not Avail
Book Type: Paperback
Rating:
5

ISBN-13: 9780590223317 - ISBN-10: 0590223313


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Book Description:

Once They All Believed In Dragons

Once they all believed in dragons
When the world was fresh and young,
We were woven into legends,
Tales were told and songs were sung,
We were treated with obeisance,
We were honored, we were feared,
Then one day they stopped believing--
On that day, we disappeared.

Now they say our time is over,
Now they say we've lived our last,
Now we're treated with derision
Where we once ruled unsurpassed.
We must make them all remember,
In some way we must reveal
That our spirit lives forever--
We are dragons! We are real!

"An excellent collection....Prelutsky and Sis...bring to life so many sorts of dragons: the large, the small, the ferocious, the technological, the gentle, the ominous, and the disconsolate. There's a `just right' quality to the verse that makes it a pleasure to read the words aloud. Their sounds fit together with seamless craftsmanship and their sense rewards listeners with humor, imagination, and occasional poignancy....Because it appeals on so many levels, this is one poetry book that won't siton the shelf for long."--Booklist.

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Please Rate these Book Reviews

Jocelyn E. (hoopridge) wrote on 12/21/2008...


I love dragons, and I love poetry, so it stands to reason that I would like this book. I did, to a point, but the poems seemed, after awhile, a bit contrived and forced, like Prelutsky had to write just a few more poems to make it a complete book, but the subjects may as well have been cows or houses or trains. There's not a lot of passion in the poems...yes, the poems are for children, but you still need passion to write poems at all.

Cute drawings and OK poems.

Terry N. wrote on 11/24/2007...


If you don't believe in dragons,
It is curiously true
That the dragons you disparage
Choose to not believe in you.


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