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A lonely young princess (well, she’s called a girl, but the family portraits in her castle show crowns) yearns for a friend -- a dragon friend. Fortunately, in a cave under a mountain, a real dragon is dreaming of a girl for a friend. Once the "all-alone" girl’s lonely tears make their rhyming way from her castle to his cave ("past a boat in the moat / past a frog in the bog"), the dragon follows them back (reversing the rhyming sequence); happily, the fact that he’s much the louder and larger of the two in no way inhibits their joyful play together. Readers needn’t notice that the dragon represents the power of imagination, nor that he embodies the possibility of befriending someone different; those thoughts are nicely embedded in the story, and Joosse’s buoyant verse keeps the mood light. Cecil’s jaunty, toylike characters are amusingly angular; his dreamy nighttime palette of gray-blue and -green oils suits the lullaby mood of a bedtime charmer that should be equally at home with a rambunctious morning group. joanna rudge long
A lonely young girl yearns for a friend--a dragon friend. In a cave under a mountain, a real dragon is dreaming of a girl for a friend. Once the "all-alone" girl's lonely tears make their rhyming way to his cave, the dragon follows them back (reversing the rhyming sequence). Joosse's buoyant verse keeps things light. Cecil's dreamy nighttime palette suits the lullaby mood.
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