Author/Illustrator: Jack Prelutsky/Peter Sis
Genre: Poetry
Awards: ALA Booklist Editors' Choice, Horn Book Fanfare
Age Level: 7-9 years old
Summary: The Dragons are Singing Tonight is a collection of children's poems about the different sorts of dragons. In the collection of poems, the reader sees singing dragons, sleepy dragons, thunder dragons,dragons in the computer, secret dragons, and sick dragons. Prelutsky crafts his poetry with imagination, creativity, and humor. Illustrations are spellbinding and extraordinary. The pages are full of color with a border on the edge representing a wooden frame. Inside the wooden frame, is a detailed picture of the dragon being described. Each dragon is brought to life with descriptive words and the reader can't help but feel empathetic to the dragons wishing people still believed in them. The author and illustrator work hard to captivated the reader and enchant them into a new world with their poems.
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