My Father's Dragon - Couverture rigide

Gannett, Ruth Stiles

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0394914384 ISBN 13 : 9780394914381

Editeur : Random House Childrens Books, 1948

Synopsis

Book by Gannett Ruth Stiles

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

My father and the cat became good friends but my father's mother was very upset about the cat. She hated cats, particularly ugly old alley cats. "Elmer Elevator," she said to my father, "if you think I'm going to give that cat a saucer of milk, you're very wrong. Once you start feeding stray alley cats you might as well expect to feed every stray in town, and I am not going to do it!" This made my father very sad, and he apologized to the cat because his mother had been so rude. He told the cat to stay anyway, and that somehow he would bring her a saucer of milk each day. My father fed the cat for three weeks, but one day his mother found the cat's saucer in the cellar and she was extremely angry. She whipped my father and threw the cat out the door, but later on my father sneaked out and found the cat. Together they went for a walk in the park and tried to think of nice things to talk about. My father said, "When I grow up I'm going to have an airplane. Wouldn't it be wonderful to fly just anywhere you might think of!" "Would you like to fly very, very much?" asked the cat.

Biographie de l'auteur

RUTH STILES GANNETT wrote My Father's Dragon just a few years after her graduation from Vassar College in 1944. It was an immediate success, becoming a Newbery Honor Book, and was soon followed by two sequels, Elmer and the Dragon and The Dragons of Blueland. All three dragon stories have been continuously in print in the more than 40 years since their publication. The author's other books include Katie and the Sad Noise and The Wonderful House-Boat- Train. She is married to the artist and calligrapher Peter Kahn. They have seven daughters and seven grandchildren.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Random House Childrens Books
• Date d'édition: 1948
• ISBN 10: 0394914384
• ISBN 13: 9780394914381
• Reliure: Relié
• Illustrateur: Gannett Ruth Stiles