No more Harry Potter(or Tolkien)? Illustrated in brilliant colour like a medieval illuminated manuscript, here’s everything you’ve ever wanted to know about dragons in ancient myth and more recent fiction – and some that you didn’t! The stories are often gross and sexist, like the men who imagined them. But the author of the Dragonkeeper trilogy has a writer’s eye for the kind of tale young readers will love, like the dragon that everyone in the village has to bare their backsides to whenever it appears, or the many dragons that can only live on the blood of maidens. Strong stuff – but it’s classic, right? Age 8+