The Dragon of Lonely Island

by Rebecca Rupp

Book Overview

"Rebecca Rupp's magical tale . . . radiates a glow as golden as the dragon's scales." -- Boston Globe Hannah, Zachary, and Sarah Emily are spending the summer at their great-aunt Mehitabel's house on... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 0439853370
• ISBN13: 9780439853378
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Scholastic Book Services
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 10.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful

This is a book about about a three kids that go to thir aunt's castle and they go into the tower room and find a box that has a map and a dragon scale and they meet a dragon named Fafnyr Goldenwings and the dragon is three headed, each head tells a story to tell and each story has a lesson. Every single person that reads this review should get this book. It is wonderful, and enjoying, exciting and the best book that I ever read!

A magical secret three-headed dragon and three children .

Hannah, Zachary, and little Sarah Emily have to spend the summer on their Aunt's island while their mother is writing a book. Aunt Mehitabel sends them a little old-fashioned, curlicued-handled key to unlock the Tower Room at the top of the house. They find a beautiful wooden box whose lid is really an intricate puzzle. Hidden inside is a special clue about the island. Using the map, they find the tridrake, a three-headed dragon, in the cave at the top of Drake's Hill. Fafnyr Goldenwings has a special story to tell each of them, but they must promise to keep Fafnyr a secret.A wonderful whiff of the magic of long, endless summers when there was time to dream and explore.

NOT your average dragon tale!

I have to say this book is quite interesting! This book is about a 3-headed dragon and the three kids who visit Lonely Island. The dragons are NOT in any way blood-sucking or in other words they don't feast on humans. The dragons tell tales to the 3 children and they each have a moral from which each child benefits off of. I have read a lot of books with dragons in them, from Harry Potter to Jeremy Thatcher Dragon Hatcher, but this is dragon life from a point of view that most people wish for dragons to be like.

Lots of adventure and some mystery. Reads like a classic.

Not a slow or dull page in this childen's adventure book about these 3 dragons in one! My 9yr old, reluctant to read fiction was so captivated, he read it three times in a row.

A timeless tale: children and dragons learn from eachother

This new book is written in that wonderfully timeless style that lets you believed you MUST have loved it as a child. Three children discover a three headed dragon when they vacation on a small island owned by their great aunt. The dragons heads each tell a tale in which other children learned - or taught - life lessons. The children in this tale, as well as those in the stories within it, develop special Friendships with this "Tri-Drake." Though there are morals to the tales (don't take what isn't yours; use your head; trust your own wisdom; help others when you can), you don't notice them as you read, and your kids will absorb them unwittingly.