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Description

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

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Summary

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.

First Sentence

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

Authors & Contributors

  1. Ruth Stiles Gannett (Author)
 

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