Good Morning, fellow picture book peeps!
I don’t know about you, but there are so many books I want to post for Perfect Picture Book Friday lately that there aren’t enough Fridays! As you well know, by this time next week we’ll be up to our Jack-O-Lantern grins in the Halloweensie Writing Contest, so we’ll have to skip our perfect picture books… but for a very good cause! I can promise you the stories that will be entered will be so much fun to read that you won’t even notice we’re not doing PPBF 🙂
But for today, I have another delightful book to share! And just wait til you see the activity kit that goes along with it – I tell you, it made my writerly heart go pitter-pat! 🙂
Title: Dough Knights And Dragons
Written By: Dee Leone
Illustrated By: George Ermos
Sterling Children’s Books, October 3 2017, fiction
Suitable For Ages: 5-8
Themes/Topics: friendship, creative problem solving, standing for what you believe
Opening: “In a magical kingdom far to the east
lived a very small knight and a very large beast.
One day while collecting fresh herbs in a glen
the young knight discovered a well-hidden den.
It was filled with ingredients he’d not seen before.
The lad couldn’t resist – he just had to explore!”
Brief Synopsis: A young knight and a friendly dragon meet by chance in the woods and become friends when they discover they both love to cook. But the kingdom has a law that knights and dragons must fight each other. The friends can’t bear the thought! Can they cook up a clever way to avoid fighting and put an end to the silly law?
Links To Resources: Fantastic activity kit from the author! Read with A Cooked-Up Fairy Tale by Penny Klostermann and compare and contrast 🙂 (Sorry if I just gave you a ghastly flashback to high school English essays 🙂 )
text copyright Dee Leone 2017, illustration copyright George Ermos 2017
Why I Like This Book: This is such a fun, imaginative story. I love that the boy and the dragon develop a close friendship over cooking and baking, (something you might not expect of a boy and a dragon 🙂 ) but that there is also a real element of tension because of the law that requires them to fight. And I love that they stand up for what they believe in and find a creative solution to the problem. The rhyme is catchy and fun to read aloud, and the art is entertaining, colorful and delightful – a perfect complement to the story!
I hope you enjoy it as much as I do 🙂
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Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!!! 🙂 and come to the NYS Sheep & Wool Festival if you’re in the area! I’d love to see you!!! 🙂
Susanna Leonard Hill 
Susanna, I LOVE this book. It reminds me of Patricia Wrede’s books, though they are MG. I am really excited to find this one. I love dragons and knights when they act contrary to “typical” expectations. The cover cracked me up! Thanks so much for featuring this one. 🙂
This book sounds yummy, Susanna!
What a cute idea! Make love, not war. 🙂
This is a clever twist on a dragon story. I’ve noticed baking themes in recent PB and MG books. Sounds hilarious!
Love the pun in the title and the use of contrasting colors in the spread you posted! Sounds like a fun read for baking season!
What a fun story, Susanna…and my PPBF is also about cooking…I feel a theme coming on. 🙂
I didn’t come by Would You Read It Wednesday, so I must have missed the announcement about Halloweensie…will have to backtrack and check it out…I’m excited!!!
Love the title, the story and the fact that it rhymes! Thank you!
What fun! I can imagine the things a knight and a dragon might cook up (as long as it doesn’t involve hot sauce!)
Love the premise of this book! And the title is perfect. I’m in a hotel at Rutgers tonight, and the links part of your post isn’t loading. Not sure why. So I can’t add my link for my PPBF selection, The Chupacabra Ate the Candelabra. Maybe once I post this comment it will load. Cheers!
Looks and sounds like a fun read. Damn I missed posting PPBF this week. Been under the weather of late. Catch up next time. 🙂