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

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

Eregon but it is a LONG book and not a storybook. I'm sure there are several who match that description.

[chhotii.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think it's Eragon I'm thinking of. Thanks.

Hrmpf, looked it up on Amazon. It doesn't look too promising after all.

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

We have a copy if you'd like to look at it. And it deals with some very mature topics. I read it after Liam finished the series.

[koshmom.livejournal.com]

I don't remember how old Sophia is, but "Black Beauty" comes to mind. There's also the Little House on the Prairie books. Eragon is quite long. Can she use the Hobbit?

[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.)

[ceo]

It might not be the one you're thinking of, but Benjamin really liked My Father's Dragon and the other two books in that series.

[infinitehotel.livejournal.com]

It sounds a bit like "The DragonRiders of Pern" by Anne McCaffery? My memory is those are aimed at a more middle-school audience though.

[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.

[chhotii.livejournal.com]

Maybe in some future year, given the mature topics. Thanks.

Sophia's done with the red Children's Hour books BTW. You wanted them back for your grandkids? I know that's a long way off, but I make sporadic efforts at decrufting sometimes.

[chhotii.livejournal.com]

Ooh, we will have to read Black Beauty sometime.

Of course, by now, Sophia has read all the Little House books. Except made not the last (after Laura is married).

Hah, I tried to get Sophia started on the Hobbit! She wasn't into it.

ok.

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

Let's talk about getting them back sometime after Arisia.