D'Lacey mixes up a lovely bag of dragons, squirrels and a strangely
appropriate adult protagonist. Twenty-year-old David comes to live
in Liz and Lucy's extra room in a house full of ceramic dragons.
Liz sculpts them, but what's the Hrrr coming from her studio and
how does she fire them without a kiln? Liz's young daughter Lucy
knows the dragon secrets but isn't allowed to tell. Lucy latches on
to David and pulls him into her search for an injured squirrel in
the backyard and the nearby library gardens. She practically forces
David to write a book for her about the squirrels she knows. Liz
gives David a dragon named Gadzooks that seems to be helping him
write somehow. Liz is an appealing mix of secretly magic-loving
adult and disciplinarian. Two stories-within-the-story are
inexplicably blander than the main narrative. Infused with a gentle
sense of wonder. (Fantasy. 7-11) (Kirkus Reviews)
'David ran a hand through his mop of brown hair. Dragons. It was
certainly different from his last set of lodgings, where all you
got were spiders and the occasional mouse. "It's perfect," he
said.' When David arrives at Wayward Crescent he has no idea what
lurks inside the Pennykettle house. Only when he's given his own
special dragon does he begin to unlock their mysterious secrets,
and to discover the fire within...
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