title: Dragonart: How to Draw Fantastic Dragons and Fantasy Creatures
author: Jessica "Neon Dragon" Peffer
description: Grade 5 Up This book has great writing and superb illustrations and manages to do everything right from the front cover to the index. The author is clearly knowledgeable about her topic and her enthusiasm is contagious. Her dragons are wonderfully diverse and, while none of them looks particularly easy to draw, the sheer breadth of Peffer's imagination will encourage readers to try and create some of their own. The writing hits the perfect note between didactic and mischievous and will especially appeal to the sensibilities of teen artists. There is nothing else out there right now with the wit and style of <i>DragonArt</i>; it is sure to become a classic in fantasy-art instruction.<i> Steev Baker, Kewaskum Public Library, WI</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  “Dragons,” Jessica whispered.
  
  No one had the heart to look at her, to see the grief on her face.
  
  “Dragons,” she repeated in a husky whisper. Slowly, she rose to her feet.
  
  “Look!” she cried. “Silver dragons!”
  
  Like quicksilver arrows just loosed from a bow, three silver dragons shot up
  from the valley. Two from the left, one from the right, they rose unerringly
  to the receding form of Pyrothraxus. At the last moment, Pyrothraxus saw them
  and swerved. They crossed just beneath him, screaming, long plumes of white
  frost arcing from their mouths to strike and freeze his wings. A gout of flame
  from his nostrils responded to the attack, but too late and much too slowly.
  The smaller, quicker silver dragons rose above him and met, hanging in the air
  for a moment, as though conferring, while Pyrothraxus laboriously increased
  the beat of his wings.
  
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  **The Rose and the Skull**
  
    
  
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  ( Dragonlance - Bridges of Time, Book 4 )
  
  