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A colourfully illustrated, magical story set on the Pembrokeshire coast about a kind old gentleman who befriends a sad young dragon, gives him a name and, with the help of a kind witch, teaches him to dance; for readers aged 9-11 years. Reprint. First Published in 2016.

About the Author :
Julie Rainsbury was born in Kent but now lives in Pembrokeshire. She writes prose and poetry for children and adults. She has been shortlisted for many childrenメs book awards including the TES Nasen award for Crab-boy Cranc and the Tir na-Nog award on numerous occasions. Her latest novel for children, The Midwinters, was published by Pont Books in 2005.

Review :
Graham Howells’s magical land and seascape illustrations draw on a geographic Pembrokeshire of dramatic cliffs and Celtic relics with a definite echo of Disney animations and the Tolkienesque – with Sorcerer’s Apprentice dancing furniture, personified dancing trees, a benevolent witch and fairy tale folk too. Vibrant colour along with more subtle backdrops and scenes, a gallery of characterful expressions, (mostly) dynamic drawings which practically jump off the page, and decorated endpapers of amusing green Coydwig woods-folk all merge together to produce a picture book which resonates with energy and which readers will enjoy exploring. Unusually, Mr Barafundle wakes up to find that his rose-tinted-glasses world is being disturbed by eerie moans and wails. By tuning in his mobile island home to ‘the power of the great bluestones’, he is able to float to the headland where he finds the sobbing culprit, a young rockdragon who ‘should have flown south for the winter long ago’. This nameless creature, having been born late in the season, has been abandoned because he cannot fly. Needless to say, through resourcefulness and the help of white witch Hakin’s herbal potions, Mr Barafundle enables rockdragon Stackpole to cheer up and gain in self-esteem by choosing his own name and becoming ‘the champion rock-dancing champion of the world’. This book is charming without being cloying, but its joy is not the plot – which happily avoids predictability at the end – or the convincing make-believe world (a world not too far removed from that of Anne Lewis’s Bwganwood for older readers), but in its language and style. Well-paced poetic prose and musical verse abound in accessible imagery and fun word play; a rip-roaring twmpath of a myriad dance steps insists readers and listeners join in. Here the prolific Julie Rainsbury has created a jolly hobbit or leprechaun-like character and a miserable but endearing crimson rockdragon whom children of five to eight will want to meet again.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781843234494
  • Publisher: Gomer Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Pont Books
  • Height: 260 mm
  • No of Pages: 32
  • ISBN-10: 1843234491
  • Publisher Date: 13 Mar 2019
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Width: 200 mm


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