Book Description:
From the author of The Wind in the Willows comes this story of a boy who befriends a lazy, but quite pleasant, dragon that takes up residence nearby. When the townspeople call in St. George, the eminent dragon-slayer, to do battle, it s up to the boy to sort things out and stick up for his newfound friend. It s a hilarious story that will have you cheering for the dragon and his pal.
The Reluctant Dragon was made into a Walt Disney film in 1941; it's also seen life as a children's operetta. Listen carefully to the language of the literature-loving dragon; he seems rather more intelligent than the townspeople intent on skewering him.
About PlainTales Classics
There seem to be two kinds of stories: the ones you should read and the ones you want to read. We think the twenty-two stories included in the PlainTales Classics line are both. You and your family will love tales like Hansel and Gretel, The Velveteen Rabbit and Rip Van Winkle because they have great characters you can cheer for (or despise unabashedly) and because they leave you hungry to know what comes next.
They're also good for you. A first introduction to some of the world's great writers, including Nathaniel Hawthorne and Oscar Wilde, PlainTales Classics are cultural touchstones that have informed subsequent works of literature, right down to Harry Potter, for the past 100 years.
Of course, learning is easy when you're having fun.
About PlainTales
There are plenty of reasons to enjoy classic stories. Maybe there's nothing good on TV (there probably isn't). Maybe it will make you smarter (it probably will). Or perhaps you have happy memories of reading great stories or having them read to you. You remember times when a story was so captivating that everything else seemed to melt away, when just the sound of the words transported you to another world. Suddenly homework and feeding the dog went out the window, and nothing mattered more than finding out what happened next.
A sense of magical alchemy occurs when words and imagination mix, and it's the goal of PlainTales to make that easier. The other benefits of hearing great stories such as a bigger vocabulary, the ability to think creatively, a jumpstart on school success matter. But in the end it's the wonderful, transporting pleasure of a good story that makes them worth visiting again and again. And that can change your life for the better, forever.
We hope you'll try listening to a PlainTales story. Prepare to be transported.
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