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010 $a2016024232
020 $a9781626720923 (hbk.) :$cNT$665
040 $aTWTNM$beng$dTWTNM
050 00$aPR6039.O32$bZ6954 2017
082 04$a828.912$222
100 1 $aMcAlister, Caroline,$d1960-$eauthor.
245 10$aJohn Ronald's dragons :$bthe story of J.R.R. Tolkien /$cCaroline McAlister ; illustrated by Eliza Wheeler.
250 $aFirst edition.
260 $aNew York :$bRoaring Brook Press,$c2017.
300 $a36 p. :$bcolor ill. ;$c29 cm.
500 $aIllustrations rendered using watercolor.
500 $aMarantz copy has the original dust jacket.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (page 39).
520 $aJohn Ronald loved dragons. He liked to imagine dragons when he was alone, and with his friends, and especially when life got hard or sad. After his mother died and he had to live with a cold-hearted aunt, he looked for dragons. He searched for them at his boarding school. And when he fought in a Great War, he felt as if terrible, destructive dragons were everywhere. But he never actually found one, until one day, when he was a grown man but still very much a boy at heart, when he decided to create one of his own. This picture book biography introduces the creator of Middle Earth and author of The Hobbit to a new generation of children who see magic in the world around them.
521 1 $aAges 5-8.
600 10$aTolkien, J. R. R.$q(John Ronald Reuel),$d1892-1973$vJuvenile literature.
650 0$aAuthors, English$y20th century$vBiography$vJuvenile literature.
700 1 $aWheeler, Eliza,$eillustrator.