While I am sometimes wary of such books, kids old enough to read and enjoy this text will hopefully also be old enough to differentiate between fantasy and reality.
Many of the "facts" are consistent with Dungeons and Dragons and other fantasy worlds, including good metallic dragons and evil chromatic dragons, scale color giving an indication of habitat and powers, and the life stages a dragon passes This book purports to be an annotated nonfiction field guide about dragons written by a "kender".
Many of the "facts" are consistent with Dungeons and Dragons and other fantasy worlds, including good metallic dragons and evil chromatic dragons, scale color giving an indication of habitat and powers, and the life stages a dragon passes through. All dragons featured are European. Unfortunately there are a number of internal contradictions. This seems especially odd since the author could make up any facts they wanted. Maybe this helps children realize it is all nonsense, but I would have appreciated more effort and respect given to the topic.
The author has a note saying they "prefer not to judge a dragon by the color of its skin" then differentiates everything by dragon skin color. This may be an artifact of the annotations vs. The title is A Practical Guide to Dragon Riding, but that is only the focus of five pages 16 if I am extremely generous out of the entire book.
The author says "once your dragon has grown to the size of a horse The text claims dragons fly by coasting with their large wings, yet has a table claiming many dragons fly at miles per hour. The text states that dragonliches can only be created by collaborating with en evil dragon, yet the note says the author hopes to create one themselves. Maybe they are evil and do promote stealing eggs and wearing dragonhide to train a dragon , but later they shy away from even describing Draconians because they are "so truly evil and horrible" Overall it's a neat idea for a book when done right, but the lack of attention to detail led to a number of problems.
Nov 16, Eva rated it really liked it Shelves: pretty-fantastic. Features solid information about the raising of dragons and aerial combat, as well as other species in the dragon family.
The art is beautiful and it is easily read and understood. Sep 08, Ashley rated it really liked it Shelves: j-nonfic , fantasy. Cute little monster manual for dragons! Nov 13, Conan Tigard rated it really liked it. Although Tas did not write this book, another Kender did. What is a Kender you might ask? A Kender is a small humanoid that look a bit like an Elf with pointed ears don't tell an Elf that I said that , is very excitable, easily distracted, very brave, always wears their hair in a topknot, dresses colorfully, and has a tendency to "borrow" items they see.
During Sindri's adventures while under the tutelage of the wizard Maddoc, he compiled a massive amount of information about dragons. In his previous book, A Practical Guide to Dragons, Sindri wrote about the ten different types of dragons that walk and fly in the world of DragonLance.
There are five types of Chromatic Dragons and five types of Metallic Dragons. The Chromatic Dragons are evil while the Metallic Dragons are good. In his newest book, Sindri focuses on how a person would go about hatching a dragon egg, bonding with the wrymling, raising the wyrmling to adulthood, and finally training the dragon to take on a rider. Sindri also discusses different creatures that are related to dragon in the Dragonkind chapter.
I am happy to report after reading both of Sindri Suncatcher's books that I am now extremely knowledgeable about dragons and am ready to become a dragon rider.
I know what I need to do to find a dragon egg, what I have to do to hatch the egg, what I have to feed the wyrmling, what materials I need to build a saddle, what gear I need to wear, and how to train the dragon for a rider.
I am totally ready to go. Now, if only I could find a Silver Dragon egg. She did an terrific job of researching and gathering all of this information and writing it so it can be easily understood. The cover and interior art, by sixteen different artists, is wonderful. This book is absolutely beautiful. Overall, A Practical Guide to Dragon Riding is an marvelous book full of very interesting facts about dragons and dragonkind. Young readers will spend hours and hours pouring over the information and images in this book, which will help them better understand the dragons and creatures in the Dragon Codex series.
I rated this book a 9 out of Jul 27, Sophie Avett rated it it was amazing Shelves: good-for-beginners , reference-books , dragons-myths-legends-lore , awesome-images. If you're trying to write dragons and you don't have this book, I have no idea what you're doing.
The images are fantastic, and the explanations for dragon flight mechanics and proper riding techniques are simple and easy understand. A wonderful foundation for an author to start creating their own fantastic mounts.
Not that dragons need riders Jun 15, Moira rated it it was amazing Shelves: with-himself , reference , himself. Looked at and read one of them the entire time on a 6 hour drive, made up dragon stories and imaginary dragon friends. The only con in his view is the authors' view on colored dragons being "bad" or worse than metallics anyway. That, he finds ridiculous. Sep 27, Whole And rated it really liked it Shelves: childrens-books-dragons. Excellent dragon guide for the serious dragon lover.
Fiercely beautiful. Aug 12, Helen Viorel rated it it was amazing. A very useful guide! Jan 09, tim harper rated it liked it. If you want to learn more about how to take care of dragons and ride then this is the book for you. A Practicial Guide to to Dragon Riding is educational book about dragons.
May 18, David Syzdek rated it liked it. Entertaining but not awesome book. Some of the data tables for dragon speeds seem off. There were a few typos. Sarah rated it it was amazing Apr 02, Laura rated it really liked it Jul 22, Paula Huddy rated it really liked it Jan 11, Evermore rated it it was amazing Apr 22, Robin Blackburn rated it it was amazing Jan 13, Brielle rated it it was amazing Aug 29, Cora rose maria hont rated it it was amazing Dec 24, Shannon Klinner rated it really liked it May 22, Sistora Neeley rated it it was amazing Oct 08, Jason rated it really liked it Jun 15, Kiley rated it liked it Jun 02, Isabelle rated it it was amazing Aug 06, DragonGirl rated it it was amazing Oct 02, Robert M Monteith rated it really liked it Dec 25, Gabriella rated it it was amazing Oct 02, Search WorldCat Find items in libraries near you.
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