The Book of Dragons
by Michael Hague
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Author: Michael HagueIllustrator: Michael Hague
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-05-01
ISBN: 0060759682
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: HarperCollins
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Book Review: the Illustrations are exquisite, the selection of stories less so.
Summary: 4 Stars
Michael Hague is one heck of an illustrator! The vividly coloured, imaginative, detailed drawings put me in mind of some of the classic illustrators such as Arthur Rackham. My girl picked this up off the library shelf and was utterly enthralled. You can just stare at these pictures for hours on end. Even the line drawings are filled with detail, and imagination - the perspective the emotions of it. Amazing, just amazing
However in here are 17 stories and they vary markedly in both quality and appropriateness for age. In that I am not talking content, rather I am talking about understanding. While there are excellent authors I found that some stories seemed loose and unfinished - unrounded - Italo Calvino's tale comes to mind here. I felt like part of it was missing - the story of a girl who has a magic horse who tells her everything - who is nearly convinced to marry a prince. It feels like it is part of the greek myth of Oedipus - or of Moses and that it was actually part of a much more complex story. And then there was Bilbo and Smaug which I didn't think sat well alone as a story without the rest of the the Hobbit around it.
So while some stories worked, others just didn't (to me anyway). Borrow for teh illustrations alone though - you can definitely weave your own stories around them. They are mind-blowing!
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