Dragon · Book 2

A Friend for Dragon

by Dav Pilkey

Published
1 January 1991
Pages
51
ISBN-13
9780876174913
Type
novel

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Cover of A Friend for Dragon

About this book

A Friend for Dragon (1991, 51 pages) is one of Dav Pilkey's five original Dragon picture books, following the gentle, accident-prone blue dragon through one of his ordinary mishap-turned-misadventures, painted in the same soft, loose watercolors as the rest of the series. It runs slightly longer than Dragon Gets By, published the same year.

Its place in Dragon

A Friend for Dragon is book 2 in the Dragon series. It follows Dragon Gets By. It is followed by Dragon's Merry Christmas. See the full Dragon reading order.

Years before Captain Underpants, Dav Pilkey's Dragon was his first recurring character: a gentle, accident-prone blue dragon living alone in a small house, whose five early picture books each follow him through one ordinary mishap-turned-misadventure -- taking in a stray cat he has no idea how to care for, bungling his own chores, throwing a Halloween party that goes sideways, hosting Christmas. Pilkey wrote and painted the series with watercolors bought from a local grocery store, and the resulting look -- soft…

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