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Don't Ask the Dragon
By (Author) Lemn Sissay
Illustrated by Greg Stobbs
Canongate Books
Canongate Books
17th May 2022
24th February 2022
Main
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories
823.92
Short-listed for Spark! School Book Awards - Early Reader Picture Fiction 2022 (UK)
Hardback
32
Width 285mm, Height 295mm, Spine 12mm
610g
This is the story of a little boy called Alem who goes on an adventure.
It's his birthday, but who knows where he can go to celebrate it
Maybe the bear, the fox, the treefrog or the bulldog know
But don't ask the dragon . . . or he will EAT you!
'A lovely book, simple and yet profound. There should be a copy in every nursery'
JACQUELINE WILSON, author of The Story of Tracey Beaker
'A stunning new rhyming folk tale for our time, about someone who wonders where is home. The answer is surprising but it tells us all, from the youngest reader to the oldest that you can find home so long as you've got friends. It's moving, loveable and philosophical, in other words, great mind-soup!'
MICHAEL ROSEN, author of We're Going on a Bear Hunt
'Lemn's dragon is one we all need to meet, want to meet. A dragon with kind teeth, a friend-dragon. A Lemn-dragon! We have grandchildren who will love it. Grandpa loved it too'
MICHAEL MORPURGO, author of War Horse
Lemn Sissay OBE is a BAFTA-nominated, bestselling and award-winning writer and broadcaster. His 2019 memoir My Name Is Why was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. His Landmark poems are visible in London, Manchester, Huddersfield and Addis Ababa. Sissay was awarded an MBE in 2010, the PEN Pinter Prize in 2019 and an OBE for services to literature and charity in 2021. He is Chancellor of the University of Manchester. He is British and Ethiopian.
@lemnsissay | lemnsissay.com
Greg Stobbs is an illustrator, street artist and visual development artist from the South East, with an overactive imagination. He has previously worked with the BBC, CBeebies, Urban Outfitters and John Lewis.
@gregstobbs_illustration | @squirlart