This Book is Not About Dragons
Shelley Moore Thomas, illustrations by Fred Koehler
Boyds Mills Press
Fiction, CH Fantasy/Humor/Picture Book
Themes: Anthropomorphism, Dragons
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Description
If you're looking for dragons, look elsewhere. As the mouse narrator points out, there are no dragons here - not in the woods, not behind the cabin, not behind the scorched... um... oh, my...
Review
I read this during some down time at work. A fun little premise with simple, imaginative illustrations, it also acts as a reminder to fact-check your sources, even seemingly reliable narrators in picture books, and perhaps a poke at the futility of denial in the face of facts. Or, at least, the face of dragons.