Books: Favorites: Dealing With Dragons

Hello, Dragon Riders!

Before we get started, I just want to say that this is a very exciting post for me. It is the 100th post on On the Breath of a Dragon's Wing!!!

I talked about the dragons in The Enchanted Forest Chronicles a while ago, but now I'm going to talk about the actual books. (If you want to read the post about the dragons in The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, click here.) More specifically, I am going to talk about the first book, because it is my favorite.

Dealing With Dragons, by Patricia C. Wrede, is about a princess, Princess Cimorene, who runs away to live with a dragon. The back of the book gives us a wonderful description of Cimorene: "Meet Princess Cimorene--a princess who refuses to be proper. She is everything a princess is not supposed to be: headstrong, tomboyish, smart. . . .
And bored."

This series is such a brilliant twist on most stereotypical fairy tales. Cimorene runs away to be a dragon's princess, and many knights come to try to rescue her. The only way to get the "chivalrous" knights to go away is to be rude to them. Stepmothers help their daughters make up dramatic and horrible stories, told in almost Shakespearean language to wealthy knights and princes, hoping their daughters will marry rich. A series of boys named "Jack" steal from a nice giant couple, and the list goes on.

What's more, there's something odd going on in the realm of dragons. . .

I remember my mom read this book to me when I was tiny. I loved it, forgot about it, and read it again a few years later. I rediscovered how much I loved it, and have read it periodically ever since.

Fairy tales are the best, aren't they?

Spruce Nogard

Attributions: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/enchanted-forest-chronicles-patricia-c-wrede/1102213128?ean=9780152050528

Genre of the Month: High Fantasy

Hello, Friends!

This month's genre is High fantasy. High fantasy takes place in a world completely unrelated to our own, with no access to our world. This is unlike portal fantasy in that portal fantasy contains portals to completely different worlds.

Some books I have read that are high fantasy are: Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle, The Hobbit, and The Enchanted Forest Chronicles (which I post about here.)

Christopher Paolini's Alagaesia is full of elves, dwarves, dragons, humans, well known fantasy creatures, as well as creatures he made up, like urgals.

Middle-earth is J.R.R Tolkien's amazing fantasy world, while the world in which The Enchanted Forest Chronicles take place is never named.

To learn more about types of fantasy, read Erin's post about fantasy here.

What books have you read that are high fantasy?

Spruce Nogard

Attributions:

https://www.amazon.com/Hobbit-There-Back-Again/dp/061815082X

Dragons: The Enchanted Forest Chronicles

Good Day, Friends!

Today, we are going to talk about the view of dragons in The Enchanted Forest Chronicles. These books are: Dealing with Dragons, Searching for Dragons, Calling on Dragons, and Talking to Dragons. I recommend them, and, as with pretty much any book I mention, shall have to write a post about them sometime.

In The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, dragons are another race. They are equal to witches, wizards, humans, etc. They have their own government system, and are not tied to humans, like they are in the view of dragons taken in The Inheritance Cycle, by Christopher Paolini. (To read that post, click here.)

They are very smart. When they are young, they do not have a gender; they get to decide their gender when they get older (Females get three horns, males get two). Also, you must be very polite to dragons because, after all, they're dragons. Also, it's good to be polite to anyone. :)

Which view of dragons do you like better: The Inheritance Cycle's (Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance) or The Enchanted Forest Chronicles?

Comment Below!

Spruce Nogard

Attributions:

http://www.amazon.com/Enchanted-Forest-Chronicles-Dealing-Searching/dp/B001Y8AUMU