Dragonology: The Frost Dragon Book and Model Set: Tracking and Taming Dragons: Volume 2 (Ologies) [Hardcover]

Dr. Ernest Drake (Author), Dugald A. Steer (Editor), Various (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up | Series: Ologies

Here comes the frost dragon, the hot species of the season! Get on track with this essential companion to the #1 bestseller DRAGONOLOGY.

Open this deluxe guidebook and model package and find the complete,
twenty-four-page TRACKING AND TAMING FROST DRAGONS, in which preeminent dragonologist Dr. Ernest Drake shares the special skills needed to set out on the trail of these coldweather dragons. What's more, each package features an easy-to-assemble, lifelike hanging model of the Draco occidentalis maritimus, or frost dragon, with a 24-inch wingspan and movable wings!

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Hardcover: 24 pages
• Publisher: Candlewick (December 23, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0763634263
• ISBN-13: 978-0763634261
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 1 x 12.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #98,178 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dr. Ernest Drake is said to have lived in St. Leonard's Forest, Sussex, England, in the late nineteenth century and to have issued a very limited run - some 100 copies - of DRAGONOLOGY in 1895. A noted dragonologist and a founding member of the Secret & Ancient Society of Dragonologists in London, Dr. Ernest Drake was determined to bring the subject of dragons under the burgeoning umbrella of the nineteenth-century natural sciences. He had absolutely no doubt that dragons exist, and his notes suggest that he had no little experience of them. Apparently, only one copy of DRAGONOLOGY ever appeared in public, surfacing in the basement of a secondhand bookstore in London in 1987. The book was accompanied by a letter, dated 1904, addressed to an unnamed apprentice.

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE FROST DRAGON is fanciful and creative, June 15, 2010

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This review is from: Dragonology: The Frost Dragon Book and Model Set: Tracking and Taming Dragons: Volume 2 (Ologies) (Hardcover)

Winter is here, and maybe it's cold and snowy where you live. If so, perhaps you should check the skies above you to try to catch a glimpse of a frost dragon in migration from one frigid pole to another. To aid you in the detection and identification of the regal dragon, check out Dr. Ernest Drake's THE FROST DRAGON. Published just in time for cold weather dragon tracking, this guide is beautifully illustrated and full of useful information. It also comes with a model of the frost dragon you can put together to assist you in recognizing this beast.

The frost dragon is dangerous, clever and loves ice cream, we learn from Drake's field notes. The guide prepares amateur dragonologists for encounters with these distinct creatures. Included is information on their size and appearance, lairs, diet, migration patterns, eggs, footprints, Arctic and Antarctic habitats, and much more. Drake shares ideas on preparing for polar adventures ("dragon sleighs are available from a few Finnish outlets") and even attracting, befriending and training frost dragons. Finally, he tells readers how to keep their own tracking journals and includes a number of riddles ("like European dragons, frost dragons also share a love for certain kinds of riddles").

Those already fond of dragons will find much to stir the imagination and others will be enchanted with this lovely facsimile of Drake's own notebook. The pages show water marks, exposed stitching, and the wear and tear of Drake's own hands. The illustrations, both black-and-white and color, are fantastical and skilled, and the notes themselves are funny, smart and fun to read. The model here is bigger than the ones found in earlier items in the series but just as easy to assemble; it's meant to be hung up, demonstrating the swooping gracefulness of the frost dragon.

THE FROST DRAGON is fanciful and creative, well-made and entertaining, as are so many of the books in the 'Ologies series.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars dragonology, November 5, 2010

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bix (Palmetto, FL, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Dragonology: The Frost Dragon Book and Model Set: Tracking and Taming Dragons: Volume 2 (Ologies) (Hardcover)

the dragon was fun to build, and my son has it hanging in his room, looks very cool.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Dragon Lover, August 7, 2010

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Marilyn Longo "Ralph's daughter" (Fort Myers, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dragonology: The Frost Dragon Book and Model Set: Tracking and Taming Dragons: Volume 2 (Ologies) (Hardcover)

Quality book for a grandchild who is a "dragon lover."
She will be delighted with this book.