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    My Father's Dragon - Unabridged
    My Father's Dragon - Unabridged
    My Father's Dragon - Unabridged
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    My Father's Dragon - Unabridged

    By Ruth Stiles Gannett and Ruth Crisman Gannett

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    Ruth Stiles Gannett's beloved tale of adventure and exploration, "My Father's Dragon" takes the reader on a trip to Wild Island, where the narrator's intrepid young father must navigate a maze of exotic animals - including a rhino, a lion and some hungry alligators - to rescue an imprisoned baby dragon. 


    At once hilarious

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFt. Raphael Publishing Company
    Release dateJul 10, 2022
    ISBN9781958943021
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    Ruth Stiles Gannett

    Ruth Stiles Gannett wrote My Father’s Dragon just a few years after her graduation in 1944. It was an immediate success, becoming a Newbery Honor Book, and was soon followed by two sequels, Elmer and the Dragon and The Dragons of Blueland. All three dragon stories have been continuously in print in America in the more than 70 years since their publication. The author’s other books include Katie and the Sad Noise and The Wonderful House-Boat-Train. She was married to the artist and calligrapher Peter Kahn, before his death in 1997. She has seven daughters and eight grandchildren. Visit her online at myfathersdragon.org

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      My Father's Dragon - Unabridged - Ruth Stiles Gannett

      cover-image, My Father's Dragon

      MY FATHER'S DRAGON

      Story by

      RUTH STILES GANNETT

      Illustrations by

      RUTH CHRISMAN GANNETT

      FORT RAPHAEL PUBLISHING CO.

      CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

      www.FortRaphael.com

      Copyright © 2022 by Ft. Raphael Publishing Company

      All Rights Reserved.

      Edited by Kevin Theis, Ft. Raphael Publishing Company

      Front Cover Artwork and Graphics by Paul Stroili,

      Touchstone Graphic Design, Chicago

      

      

      1.  My Father Meets the Cat

      2.  My Father Runs Away

      3.  My Father Finds the Island

      4.  My Father Finds the River

      5.  My Father Meets Some Tigers

      6.  My Father Meets A Rhinoceros

      7.  My Father Meets A Lion

      8.  My Father Meets A Gorilla

      9.  My Father Makes A Bridge

      10.  My Father Finds the Dragon

      Biography of Ruth Stiles Gannett

      

      CHAPTER ONE - MY FATHER MEETS THE CAT

      One cold rainy day when my father was a little boy, he met an old alley cat on his street. The cat was very drippy and uncomfortable so my father said, Wouldn't you like to come home with me?

      This surprised the cat--she had never before met anyone who cared about old alley cats--but she said, I'd be very much obliged if I could sit by a warm furnace, and perhaps have a saucer of milk.

      We have a very nice furnace to sit by, said my father, and I'm sure my mother has an extra saucer of milk.

      My father and the cat became good friends but my father's mother was very upset about the cat. She hated cats, particularly ugly old alley cats. Elmer Elevator, she said to my father, "if you think I'm going to give that cat a saucer of milk, you're very wrong. Once you start feeding stray alley cats you might as well expect to feed every stray in town, and I am not going to do it!"

      This made my father very sad, and he apologized to the cat because his mother had been so rude. He told the cat to stay anyway, and that somehow he would bring her a saucer of

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