Dragon Age Art Books

[Alexandrie Gallup]

NoteSome of these are or were marketed as adult fantasy (particularly the Lackey books), but the protagonists are young or coming-of-age adult, so I included them here. Bear in mind that some YA books contain sexual content and may not be suitable for younger readers.

What are your favorite dragon stories?? My shelves have run out and he's consistently asking for more. Any reading level if it would interest a 7yo boy. :)

He's gone through My Father's Dragon, How to Train Your Dragon, Magic Treehouse dragon volume, and more I can't remember off the top of my head. Anything he can get his hands on really.

Something like Wimpy Kid is his sweet spot for mashing his reading level with his maturity, but he'll power through something like Quidditch Through the Ages if he likes it well enough. And of course he'll gladly gobble up easier books for good stories. :)

My 6.5 year old loves the Dragon Masters series. Also the Kingdom of Wrenly books aren't all entirely about dragons, per se, but the main character has a pet dragon who features heavily in all the stories.

Something like Wimpy Kid is his sweet spot for mashing his reading level with his maturity, but he'll power through something like Quidditch Through the Ages if he likes it well enough. And of course he'll gladly gobble up easier books for good stories. :)

Oh, I just remembered that I took a picture of a dragon book the other day to see if I could find it at our library. It was one of the Beast Quest books...it appears that quite a few of them are about dragons. However, from reading the blurb it seems the dragons are the enemy, so that might not be what you are looking for.

The Hobbit has the evil dragon Smaug at the end of the story, but that's at a middle school reading level. You might try one of the graphic novel versions, if your DS doesn't mind a bad dragon character:

The Hobbit Illustrated (Wenzel)

The Hobbit (Dixon) -- part 1, part 2, part 3

My daughter's goal since she was six has been to grow up to be a dragon. She's been picky, however, because a lot of times dragons in books aren't "correct" according to her imagination, and we never do books where dragons are bad guys or are slain or anything unspeakable like that.

Just in case anyone reading this thread cares, and is not aware, McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series is an adult fantasy series, with some mildly adult situations in some books. For example, the dragons are telepathically linked to their riders, and when the dragons fly solo up into the air to mate, their riders down on the ground experience... ahem... the heat of passion, shall we say, and sometimes act on that with another dragon rider nearby.

BUT... there is a tiny YA spinoff series Dragonsong and Dragonsinger - these don't have anything like that, the abusive characters in the story are the bad guys, the young heroine is a strong and positive character, the bullies get what's coming to them, etc. The first book is like Julie of the Dragons, the second one is like Medieval Mean Girls with Dragons. They're cute.

The Accidental Pirates series by Claire Fayers is another one that my dragon lover has gotten into. I don't think the first book, Journey to the Magical North, has dragons, but they feature in the second book, Journey to Dragon Island.

He has been raised on Narnia, Hobbit, and Harry Potter and adores those stories. So he's comfortable with more mature story lines than material aimed at his age, but he is only 7. :001_smile: He'd largely prefer the dragon is the cool character but Smaug still inspires awe.

Some days ago he had a shield in his arm with a Nerf under his arm, a sword down the back of his shirt, and another sword in his other hand, on his way to the backdoor. I said the same well-wishing comment about slaying dragons I've said since my now graduates suited up. His response was, "Mom. Please. I *am* the dragon." :lol:

I missed that a lot of the lower order dragons had different sex riders so if you dragon paired up with another the relationship was often homosexual the first time I read them. I like them but I would go with the 3 about Menolly and if I was concerned about such things I might reread them first.

I have, technically, already written books with dragons in them. Dragons in the cosmere... you've only heard from one. There haven't been... Frost, who is Hoid's old friend from the planet where he grew, is a dragon. And he's the person that he's exchanging letters with. Look for where Hoid calls someone "you old reptile." So, there are dragons in the cosmere. They are shapeshifters. And so you will rarely see them in dragon form until I go back and do Hoid's origin story. Then, you'll see quite a number of them. But you will also see them later on.

Noooo, except for on fundamental cosmere rules stuff, but that's-- I would say no, in the same way that if you're like, "Is there any similarity between the way that bats fly and birds fly?" Well, there is some similarity 'cause-- But there is [convergent] evolution and stuff like that.

No, um, the idea for white sandWhite Sand came first, and it was more that I was exploring divergent ecology, but I've been doing that in Dragonsteel and in White Sand and in here with Roshar. I would say that the fact that white sand hadn't been published meant that I could do something's that were similar without worrying about repeating myself, but it's not like I used them specifically as models.

Uh, well, in Dragonsteel the dragons are sapient, so when I write Dragonsteel I will put dragons in there, but the dragons are intelligent and uh, can take human form, but there are actual little dragons.

The second question is about dragons! One race, on Yolen, are dragons with the ability to shift. I'm positively sure that we haven't seen any dragons in dragon form around yet. How about in human form, and would it be possible to actually recognize a human dragon?

So, the question is, I haven't written the book yet, but one of the books I've talked about that is the origin of all of this is called Dragonsteel, and there are dragons in it! 'Cause, like I said, 'Why not? Why wouldn't you?' And she's asking about Dragonsteel. Have we seen dragons hidden among the characters in the books that we have seen. You have very likely seen -

You've once said that there were three sentient species on Yolen: Human, Dragon and [Sho Del]. We've seen a lot of 'people' on the different planets that were either descended from or intentionally based on humans. Frost is known to be a dragon.

Depends on how you want to express it. Some of the dragons from Yolen are as old and are very crafty. You could argue that the aethers, the actual core aethers, are as ancient and potentially powerful. I wouldn't put them by raw power at Shard level, but they would claim that they are. Depends on what you would think there. There are some other individuals of a similar, not as dangerous as Hoid, but on a similar level. Been around for thousands of years, investigated a lot of the magics, and these sorts of things.

Yes, I smile inwardly as I say that, because I know that--indeed--I don't use a lot of dragons. I do like reading about them, but I haven't found myself eager to put them into my works. I think it's because I've read so many excellent dragon books, I figure, that area of fantasy is being covered by others--and I should try different things.

You'll get some answers to this very soon because you'll be able to read Dragonsteel Prime. (And some of you have read that. We'll be doing this as a Curiosity, like we did Way of Kings Prime). Dragons act in the cosmere as kind of this... the Primary magic system that they use is something akin to soothing and rioting, but they have followers who pray to them and ask for them to help them with their emotions during difficult times, and the dragons are able to do that across any distance. That's kind of the main thing that they're doing, other than that they can transform between a dragon and a person in shape. There's a little bit more to it, but I'll give you those nuggets.

One of my books has dragons. It's the one I wrote but didn't get published and will eventually re-publish, called Dragonsteel. So one of the very first I wrote had dragons, but I don't want to do dragons in every book. So I'm waiting for the book that it is right for.

His biggest interest is how aethers break down, and he's really researching the water cycle, and trying to figure out how the seethe happens, because he's very interested in the decomposition of aethers, which is what's causing the seethe. That's what he is hoarding there. He's got quite the establishment in Silverlight as well. Silverlight was once upon a time a bunch of dragon palaces, they all still have their skyscrapers there, basically. He's taking a little detour for some decades on Lumar, but his home base would be in Silverlight.

He's taken a bit of seclusion, but I wouldn't say... There's a whole bunch of different things about dragons. If you've got a Tamu Kek, you can contact them, you can pray to them, and they can actually influence your emotions. They're all kind of like little mini gods. They're not immortal immortal, but they're pretty long lived and functionally immortal. They've been around for a while doing all kinds of stuff, so there's all kinds of things going on with them. Some of them will be secluded. Some of them take their duties very seriously, like Frost takes his duties very very very seriously. Other ones just don't care. You will get some themes with dragons, they do like bargains, they do tend to have their interests, they do tend to collect people and have either followers or corporations or things like that--I don't want to go too cyberpunk on us, but yeah. You'll notice some themes the more you get to know them.

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