Love, love love Nick Bland. The Wrong Book, classic. The Very Cranky Bear, another classic. I could go on, and on.
The first in a new series, ‘Bunny and Bird’, Nick Bland kicks off with How to Hatch a Dragon.
Bunny has bought his best friend, Bird, a present. It’s a dragons’ egg … Bunny got it from the dragon-egg shop. Where else? Luckily it comes with an instruction book. They place the egg in a nest on top of a rock and settled down with their backs to it on the ground with their backs to the rock and egg. Bunny begins to read the instructions out loud to bird.
Bunny explains to Bird that there are two types of dragons – yellow and blue. You don’t know what you’ll get until the egg hatches.
If it’s a blue dragon then lucky you! Blue dragons are slow growing and fabulous pets. Yellow dragons however grow very, VERY QUICKLY and grow very, VERY BIG!!
While Bunny is explaining this to Bird and they read along together, behind them the egg begins to crack …
The pandemonium begins!
When reading this book I couldn’t help but get a giggle going. It bubbled up, erupting into laughter, finally leaving me with a lovely smile on my face.
It’s just such fun. Thank you Nick Bland.
Reviewed by Merle Morcom
Age Guide 3+
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Nick was born on a farm in Victoria’s Yarra Valley, the son of two school teachers. When he moved to the bush at the age of six, he discovered a wonderful new world and his creativity bloomed.
Nick always wanted to be a cartoonist and a writer, but it wasn’t until he got a job at a bookshop in his 20s that he finally found a way to bring those two loves together.
Untrained, he spent the next couple of years reading every picture book that hit the shelves and began discovering his style as a storyteller and illustrator.
He now lives in tropical Darwin where he works full time as an author and illustrator. Nick’s books, which include The Very Cranky Bear, The Wrong Book and The Runaway Hug, have been recognised by many different awards, including the Children’s Book Council of Australia, the Kids Own Australian Literature Awards and the Australian Book Industry Awards.
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