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64 pp.
| Holiday/Pixel+Ink
| November, 2023
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Trade
ISBN 9781645951155
$14.99
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Ebook
ISBN 9781645951179
$8.99
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Illustrated by
Blythe Russo.
In spite of their differences, Drag, a relaxed, spontaneous dragon, and Rex, a more serious and somewhat stiff dinosaur, are the best of friends. When they make a snowbear together, Drag accidentally melts it by breathing fire a bit too close; but then Drag encourages Rex to recover from disappointment and skate on the ice that forms. Later, Rex, wearing a button-down shirt and a sweater with elbow patches, helps Drag, in his T-shirt and jeans, calm down enough to notice that the scary story he is reading can't actually be too scary, since it is about a dragon. The book is divided into three sections, and each section is further divided into three chapters. The stories have plenty of humor; in "Snow Day," readers may empathize with the friends' exhaustion when they finally conquer all the buttons, zippers, buckles, and laces involved in getting dressed to go outside -- and instead they take a nap. Russo's lighthearted cartoon-style illustrations on every page and the abundance of white space and attention to layout all work well together to make the book approachable for young chapter-book readers. Give this to fans of Cordell's
Cornbread and Poppy (rev. 3/22) and Snyder's
Charlie and Mouse (rev. 7/17) and their sequels.