Want to know your wurms from your wyverns? Should you feed your dragon arsenic or blood, or tempt it with sake? Everything you want to know about dragons in one beautifully illustrated volume. People have been telling stories about dragons for more than 3000 years. Five-headed dragons, fire breathing dragons. As big as mountains, as small as dogs. Dragons that can be moody, dragons that are brave or cowardly, smart or stupid, good or downright evil. Here is an encyclopaedia of the most amazing dragon stories ever told. Read everything about dragons from blood and claws to the wicked dragon king of Enoshima. Go around the world, back in time and into the fantastical.

Author Biography

Carole Wilkinson is an award-winning author of books for children. She has a longstanding fascination with dragons and is interested in the history of everything. Carole is a meticulous researcher who finds it difficult to stop researching and begin writing. She once searched for weeks to find out whether there were daffodils in Han Dynasty China. Carole is married, has a daughter, and lives in inner-city Melbourne. Dean Jones has a background in psychology, music and IT but what he really loves to do is draw. He started his career in illustration by winning the student category of the inaugural Australian and New Zealand Illustration Awards in 2004. Since then Dean has been steadily busy with commercial illustration assignments. He recently joined the black dog family with two books both collaborations with Carole Wilkinson the most recent of which was The Dragon Companion. Dean lives in inner city Melbourne.