The Trouble with Dragons
Debi Gliori
Bloomsbury
Fiction, CH Fantasy/Picture Book/Poetry
Themes: Dragons
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Description
Dragons take their world for granted, building their cities and leveling their forests and spreading their garbage everywhere, until things start to go wrong.
Review
A thinly-veiled message about civilization's toll on the environment, The Trouble with Dragons shows what went wrong with the dragon
world, and how they worked together to make it right. Of course, it's easy in a picture book... It gets marks for actually mentioning that
overpopulation is a problem, a topic many grown-up books shy away from. The rest is familiar to anyone concerned about pollution, climate change,
and carbon footprints. The rhyming tale's a trifle heavy handed and simplistic, but the topic is timely.
Will books like this save planet Earth? I doubt it, given a child's limited control over their world, but ignoring the issue sure hasn't worked.