My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett

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Newbery Honor (1949)
Lewis Carroll Shelf Award (1968)
Book Sense Book of the Year (2002.2 | Rediscovery Winner, 2002)

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When Elmer Elevator hears about the plight of an overworked and underappreciated baby flying dragon, he stows away on a ship and travels to Wild Island to rescue the dragon.

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Once cold rainy day when my father was a little boy, he met an old alley cat on his street.

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Ruth Stiles Gannett (Author)

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