Dragon, Dragon, and Other Tales
Gardner, John Champlin;

New York: Random House, 1975


The bindings are tight and square. Text is clean; light, even age-toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. The cloth is sun-faded on the edges. The price-clipped dust jacket has modest corner wear and rubbed spine tips. 9.25 inches tall; 3-73 [1] pages

Good / Good. Illustrations by Charles Shields.

Four original fairy tales—playful, sly, and told in a classic folk-voice—about a kingdom-plaguing dragon, a swaggering tailor, a scheming mule, and a chimney-sweep who rescues the world from darkness. Gardner blends traditional structures with modern wit, creating stories that read simply for children yet land clever for adults; it became a noted children’s title on release.

Named a New York Times Outstanding Book for Children that year, the collection blends folk-tale frames with Gardner’s modern wit; notes on many editions credit Michael Sporn as illustrator. 

Subjects: Dragons & quest satire; Trickster/giant tales; Talking animals; Chimney-sweep hero; Modern re-tellings in folk-tale form; John Gardner—children’s works; Michael Sporn—illustrations; Children’s literature; Fairy tales; Fantasy; Short stories.

Item #21101 Dragon, Dragon, and Other Tales. John Champlin Gardner

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