Customer Reviews

Revenge of the Dragon Lady (Dragon Slayers' Academy 2)

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My son and I discovered this whole series of books when he was a first grader...perfect for him to read as a second grader now. In the spirit of Harry Potter and the Hobbit but not so complex that kid's lose the story line. Full of jokes and adventure, I cannot recommend these any more strongly for the 7 to 10 age group (depending on reading ability). We've had two impressive endorsements:

When we first began reading about Wiglaf, it was on a plane to Colorado. As I read to my son, I realized that other children were tuning in to the story. Several parents asked for the book titles and the author when we landed.

Also, late last year I read books 1-3 for a first grade class and have since read to the second grade. The library has been unable to keep two full sets in stock and the teachers have purchased their own sets. It has taken reading by storm as boys and girls strive to finish the series.

Oh yeah, and adults will get a private chuckle out of the humor and wordplay from time to time.

This book was great! I got it for my 9 year old son, because it was recommended by Amazon as similar to Harry Potter. It has many similarities, including humor, peril and awful relatives. The main difference is the length of the books. At under 100 pages, my son finds this book much less intimidating. I definately recommend this book for anyone who enjoys wordplay, adventure, and likes seeing the little guy win every once in a while.

We are big Harry Potter fans, but the books are a bit out of range for our 7 year old. Happy is the day that I stumbled across this series. We love to listen to books in the car, and this one has been an instant success.

L.J. Ganser does an amazing job with the characters and voices. I will never be able to hear "Knock knock" without the deep growl of Fergus, as done by Ganser. I will go out of my way to find more books read by him as he has been very enjoyable to listen to.

Getting our son to read can be a chore at times, but he's diving into these books with great abandon. I recommend this book and others in the series for anyone who likes books or humor, and especially to people who like both!

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.

My son is enjoying the book very much. Prices for book are great but the shipping is to high. I don't think I would order again do to shipping cost.

I read the first book in the series "The New Kid at School" to my first and second grade students as part of Fantasy in the library. They are really enjoying Wiglaf's adventures and all of the books in the series are always checked out. The students made the request to read the second book now that we have finished the first and I am more than willing. The students and I are looking forward to more of Wiglaf and his friends from DSA. I think that any child from grade one to five would find this series exciting and fun to read.

More jokes about eels for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, more clumsy spells of wizards, more greed from the Headmaster, and a smelly female dragon that is awfully mad at Wiglaf for killing her son. Probably a bit too predictably for nine to twelve year olds, this dragon's weakness is a bath. Basically a saturday morning cartoon episode set to prose, this might be good for reluctant readers just getting started on chapter books or six to nine year olds who devour up anything medieval, but the 9 to 12 tag is pushing it a bit.
J. Lyon Layden
The Other Side of Yore

It's OK. Not as good as the first one. The pace was too slow.