Fairies And Dragons

Rest from the rigors of life and traipse into lush summer. Coax fairies, dragons, and flowers to life as you color 20 pages of beautiful hand-drawn artwork. Image complexity ranges from wide open summer blooms to thick inky jungle. Explore a beautiful, flowering world that's waiting to delight you.

This is a children's fantasy book about a lost baby dragon that is taken care of by tiny fairies who help him find his way back home. He makes new friends and learns that even though dragons and fairies are so very different, they can still be friends and live together.

Thirty imaginative full-page illustrations depict the antics of winsome fairies and pint-sized dragons as they gather flowers, swim with ducks, chat with chipmunks, and romp through a delightful dreamscape.

A guide to Disney's myriad of mythical creatures-from dragons to fairies to mermaids and more-plus stories about their worlds! Can you name all of Ariel's sisters from The Little Mermaid? Or know the mythical monsters battled in Hercules? And what's the difference between the fairies who help Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella's Fairy Godmother? This hardcover book features mini biographies, fun facts, and short stories about Disney's most recognizable mythical creatures, and is the perfect gift for 3 to 7-year-old fans of dragons, mermaids, fairies, and more!

Don’t be fooled by Tinkerbell and her pixie dust—the real fairies were dangerous. In the late seventeenth century, they could still scare people to death. Little wonder, as they were thought to be descended from the Fallen Angels and to have the power to destroy the world itself. Despite their modern image as gauzy playmates, fairies caused ordinary people to flee their homes out of fear, to revere fairy trees and paths, and to abuse or even kill infants or adults held to be fairy changelings. Such beliefs, along with some remarkably detailed sightings, lingered on in places well into the twentieth century. Often associated with witchcraft and black magic, fairies were also closely involved with reports of ghosts and poltergeists. In literature and art, the fairies still retained this edge of danger. From the wild magic of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, through the dark glamour of Keats, Christina Rosetti’s improbably erotic poem “Goblin Market,” or the paintings inspired by opium dreams, the amoral otherness of the fairies ran side-by-side with the newly delicate or feminized creations of the Victorian world. In the past thirty years, the enduring link between fairies and nature has been robustly exploited by eco-warriors and conservationists, from Ireland to Iceland. As changeable as changelings themselves, fairies have transformed over time like no other supernatural beings. And in this book, Richard Sugg tells the story of how the fairies went from terror to Tink.

Poor little Dragon just can't get to sleep, no matter how hard he tries. Instead, what he'd really like to do is dance through the moonlight and play games in the starlit sky with the fairies . . . but will they let him? This book will be perfect at bedtimes for settling sleepyheads down for the night. Another beautifully written, velvety verse from James Mayhew with beautiful illustrations from Lindsey Gardiner who won the Richard and Judy prize with her Poppy and Max characters.

Demonstrates how to draw dragons, fairies, ogres, merfolk, and everything in between!

From the fire-breathing beasts of North European myth and legend to the Book of Revelation’s Great Red Dragon of Hell, from those supernatural agencies of imperial authority in ancient China to the so-called dragon-women who threaten male authority, dragons are a global phenomenon, one that has troubled humanity for thousands of years. These often scaly beasts take a wide variety of forms and meanings, but there is one thing they all have in common: our fear of their formidable power and, as a consequence, our need either to overcome, appease, or in some way assume that power as our own. In this fiery cultural history, Martin Arnold asks how these unifying impulses can be explained. Are they owed to our need to impose order on chaos in the form of a dragon-slaying hero? Is it our terror of nature, writ large, unleashed in its most destructive form? Or is the dragon nothing less than an expression of that greatest and most disturbing mystery of all: our mortality? Tracing the history of ideas about dragons from the earliest of times to Game of Thrones, Arnold explores exactly what it might be that calls forth such creatures from the darkest corners of our collective imagination.