Customer Reviews

Class Trip to the Cave of Doom #3 (Dragon Slayers' Academy)

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I disagree with the previous review, my son loved the book. His cousin, age 7, also loved it. Harry Potter is too much for this age. Dragon Slayer's is perfect. If you find a boy with a flashlight reading after lights out, it's a hit.

I disagree with Moira from Detriot. My son & nephew love the Dragon Slayers series. Getting boys to love books is a challenge. These books sparked a natural high in them. They've both been caught with flashlights reading after bedtime and lights out.

Dragon Slayers Academy books are enjoyable books that helped my kids realize pictures aren't as important to a book as a good story.

I read this book aloud to my tween sons. We enjoyed the book, which climaxed with a great Indiana Jones-like scene in the cave.

We hadn't read the earlier books in the series, and that was no problem. It's not necessary to have read the other books in the series in order to understand the characters and plot. The only exception is the "yearbook" at the end of the book, which presents some characters from other books in the series. But you can just skip over the ones that aren't part of book 3.

There are black-and-white illustrations in roughly every other chapter (9 chapters in all) and not too much text on each page. Good for struggling readers -- or for reading aloud in short sessions.

My son really liked this book, he came to me a few times laughing about something that was happening. This is part of a series of books by this author and I highly recommend it. He is at the age where he is starting to tell me reading is boring, so any set of books I can get that he actually likes reading is a win.

In this installment Wiglaf's headmaster is angry with him because he didn't bring home any gold in the last book. The headmaster takes the students on a class trip to the Cave of Doom to find Seetha's gold, and much Rin and Stimpie cartoon humor is used along the way. Of course Wiglaf and his friends find the gold and are given little credit for doing so at the end. This one is a little better than the first two, some of the stale humor being replaced by new ideas for amusement, and thankfully the plot does not center around an imposing dragon with a silly weakness that the kids are trying to discover the whole length of the book. These are really better suited to 6 to 10 year olds, and the sheer number of books and speed at which they were put out should alert parents that these are basically glorified comic books or saturday morning cartoons set to prose. Good for beginning chapter book readers who are being weened off of TV, but if you are looking for something to read after Harry Potter I'd suggest these:
Abacar the Wizard and the Dark Lord of Dragons: Book Two of the Abacar the Wizard series
Abacar the Wizard: A Tale of Magic, War, Elves, Goblins, Orcs, Monsters, Fantasy, and Adventure

J. Lyon Layden
The Other Side of Yore