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    My Father's Dragon
    My Father's Dragon
    My Father's Dragon
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    My Father's Dragon

    By Ruth Stiles Gannett

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    On Wild Island a group of lazy animals had captured a baby dragon and put him to work. This little dragon could fly, so they used him to ferry them across the river. He didn’t like it. So went the tale that Elmer Elevator (“my father”) heard from his friend, the cat, long ago. Being a kind-hearted boy, Elmer set out to rescue the dragon. With the advice of the cat, he made elaborate preparations for his secret journey, but he never dreamed what adventures were to befall him once he set foot on Wild Island. How he outwitted the lions, tigers, wild boars and other animals and freed the dragon makes an appealing and delightfully humorous tale.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDigireads.com Publishing
    Release dateSep 21, 2020
    ISBN9781420976793
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    Ruth Stiles Gannett

    Ruth Stiles Gannett was born in 1923 and wrote her first novel at age 25. “My Father’s Dragon” was a 1948 Newberry Honor Book and went on to be an ALA notable Book. Her other titles include The Wonderful House-Boat-Train and Katie and the Sad Noise. The granddaughter of Unitarian minister and reformer Ezra Stiles Gannett, she is married to artist and calligrapher Peter Kahn and lives in upstate New York, near Cornell University. For more information, visit myfathersdragon.org.

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      My Father's Dragon - Ruth Stiles Gannett

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      My Father’s Dragon

      By Ruth Stiles Gannett

      Illustrated by Ruth Chrisman Gannett

      Print ISBN 13: 978-1-4209-7512-3

      eBook ISBN 13: 978-1-4209-7679-3

      This edition copyright © 2021. Digireads.com Publishing.

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      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

      Chapter Nine

      Chapter Ten

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      Chapter One

      MY FATHER MEETS THE CAT

      One cold rainy day when my father was a little boy, he met an old alley cat on his street. The cat was very drippy and uncomfortable so my father said, Wouldn’t you like to come home with me?

      This surprised the cat – she had never before met anyone who cared about old alley cats – but she said, I’d be very much obliged if I could sit by a warm furnace, and perhaps have a saucer of milk.

      We have a very nice furnace to sit by, said my father, and I’m sure my mother has an extra saucer of milk.

      My father and the cat became good friends but my father’s mother was very upset about the cat. She hated cats, particularly ugly old alley cats. Elmer Elevator, she said to my father, "if you think I’m going to give that cat a saucer of milk, you’re very wrong. Once you start feeding stray alley cats you might as well expect to feed every stray in town, and I am not going to do it!"

      This made my father very sad, and he apologized to the cat because his mother had been so rude. He told the cat to stay anyway, and that somehow he would bring her a saucer of milk each

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