title: Dragons in Mythology (The World of Dragons)
author:  Matt Doeden 
description: Matt Doeden is a freelance author and editor from Minnesota. Hes written numerous childrens books on sports, music, current events, the military, extreme survival, and much more. His books Sandy Koufax (Twenty-First Century Books, 2006) and Tom Brady: Unlikely Champion (Twenty-First Century Books, 2011) were Junior Library Guild selections. Doeden began his career as a sports writer before turning to publishing. He lives in Minnesota with his wife and two children.
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  # The Little Dragons by Rowan Starsmith
  
  
  Before the Kings came, the People of the Land
  
  
  had an agreement with the Dragons. It was negotiated by the Dragon
  
  
  Priestesses, who could communicate with those fearsome beasts
  
  
  through their familiars, the Little Dragons. The Kings, however,
  
  
  knew only the way of the sword. In their war against the Dragons,
  
  
  they killed their smaller cousins as well, along with the
  
  
  Priestesses who cared for them. The revenge of the Dragons was
  
  
  disastrous for both peoples, forcing everyone to live their lives
  
  
  at night, when the Dragons sleep in their caves in the
  
  
  mountains.
  
  
  Feeling her age breathing on the back of her
  
  
  neck, Mother Peg, a Senior Healer of the Earth People, is
  
  
  determined to track down the persistent rumours that some of the
  
  
  doomed Dragon Priestesses shared their knowledge with the Healers
  
  
  who sheltered them. On the other side of the Realm, powerful King
  
  
  Anglewart of the Westlands, as determi