name that book

[chhotii]

For school, Sophia needs to choose a chapter book she's never read before. But I haven't had a chance to take her to the library.

There's some series of books for young readers I've never read, but which I heard about somewhere. In the first book, a boy finds a dragon egg. And the dragons talk? Or communicate telepathically?

What am I thinking of?

Comments

[quietann.livejournal.com]

I'd second "Black Beauty" if she has any interest in horses at all. But be sure it's the unabridged edition. (I had an abridged edition with pictures when I was young, and was mad when I found the "real thing" and it was so much better! Of course a lot of the abridgement was taking out the really traumatizing scenes, or making them very short... e.g. Black Beauty's encounter with Ginger when she's a carriage horse and falls down from exhaustion in a London street.)

[koshmom.livejournal.com]

Ditto unabridged edition. Actually, it might be a good after-book report to read the unabridged, then the abridged, just so Sophia can see how abridged editions wreck the whole feel of the story.