Cimorene has her hands pretty full fending off would-be rescuers, cleaning and organizing the treasure and library of her dragon, Kazul, and making buckets of chocolate mousse for dragon dinners, but then she runs into a pair of devious wizards who are obviously up to something, and she even gets drawn into dragon politics.
Cimorene's world is a humorous, fairy-tale like place. At one point, in the Caves of Fire and Night, Cimorene meets a prince who has been turned into stone. It had been prophesied that he would render a great service to a King, so he was sent to hero school (great little side references to some of his classmatess: Jack of beanstalk fame, and an Art who pulls a sword out of a stone). The Stone Prince was eager to get his great service over and done with, and jumped at the chance to help a king by going to find the healing water that unfortunately turned him to stone-- as he says, it was completely obvious it should have been the quest of that King's youngest son. The Stone Prince does render his service to a King before the book ends, just not a human one as he had expected.
The story is a little predictable (Cimorene picks up a pebble in the Caves of Fire and Night that you just know will be crucially important later on), but is still quite entertaining and enjoyable.
Cimorene's world is a humorous, fairy-tale like place. At one point, in the Caves of Fire and Night, Cimorene meets a prince who has been turned into stone. It had been prophesied that he would render a great service to a King, so he was sent to hero school (great little side references to some of his classmatess: Jack of beanstalk fame, and an Art who pulls a sword out of a stone). The Stone Prince was eager to get his great service over and done with, and jumped at the chance to help a king by going to find the healing water that unfortunately turned him to stone-- as he says, it was completely obvious it should have been the quest of that King's youngest son. The Stone Prince does render his service to a King before the book ends, just not a human one as he had expected.
The story is a little predictable (Cimorene picks up a pebble in the Caves of Fire and Night that you just know will be crucially important later on), but is still quite entertaining and enjoyable.
| Title: | Dealing with Dragons |
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| Author: | Patricia C. Wrede |
| Date published: | 1990 |
| Genre: | Young Adult Fantasy |
| Series: | Enchanted Forest Chronicles |
| Number of pages: | 212 |
| Notes: | repeat reading; loan from Catey |
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