Dragon World
Rob Brown
Brown Trout Publishing
Fiction, CH? Picture Book/Poetry
Themes: Dragons
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Description
In the fantastic realm of the Dragon World, all manner of dragons live, swim, play, fight, dance, and dream. Rob Brown's rhyming story annotates a collection of illustrations featuring dragons big and small, nasty and nice.
Review
This is technically a picture book, but is really more of an art gallery; the story, which appears in half-lines per page, does little but give a rough structure and order to the paintings. Brown's illustrations are striking, colorful, and imaginative - everything a dragon should be - with an old-school style reminiscent of a previous generation of fantasy artists. Some of his pictures feel a bit off, and the "story" (told in rhyming verse, a couple of words per double-page spread) is largely irrelevant. Still, it does spark the imagination, and can be enjoyed by dracophiles young and old.