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My Father's Dragon is a children's novel about a young boy, Elmer Elevator, who runs away to Wild Island to rescue a baby dragon. The narrative mode is unusual, in that the narrator refers to the protagonist only as "my father", giving the impression that this is a true story that happened long ago. The novel was made into an anime film titled, Elmer's Adventure: My Father's Dragon, alongside a new animated film to be released in 2021 on Netflix.
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One cold rainy day when my father was a little boy, he met an old alley cat on his street. The cat was very drippy and uncomfortable so my father said, "Wouldn't you like to come home with me?"
This surprised the cat—she had never before met anyone who cared about old alley cats—but she said, "I'd be very much obliged if I could sit by a warm furnace, and perhaps have a saucer of milk."
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One cold rainy day when my father was a little boy, he met an old alley cat on his street. The cat was very drippy and uncomfortable so my father said, "Wouldn't you like to come home with me?"
This surprised the cat—she had never before met anyone who cared about old alley cats—but she said, "I'd be very much obliged if I could sit by a warm furnace, and perhaps have a saucer of milk."
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Ruth Stiles Gannett
Ruth Stiles Gannett wrote My Father's Dragon just a few years after her graduation from Vassar College in 1944. She lives in Upstate New York.
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My Father's Dragon (Illustrated) - Ruth Stiles Gannett
Ruth Stiles Gannett
My Father's Dragon (Illustrated)
Illustrator: Ruth Chrisman Gannett
e-artnow, 2019
Contact: [email protected]
ISBN 405-76-641-8905-9
Table of Contents
Chapter One MY FATHER MEETS THE CAT
Chapter Two MY FATHER RUNS AWAY
Chapter Three MY FATHER FINDS THE ISLAND
Chapter Four MY FATHER FINDS THE RIVER
Chapter Five MY FATHER MEETS SOME TIGERS
Chapter Six MY FATHER MEETS A RHINOCEROS
Chapter Seven MY FATHER MEETS A LION
Chapter Eight MY FATHER MEETS A GORILLA
Chapter Nine MY FATHER MAKES A BRIDGE
Chapter Ten MY FATHER FINDS THE DRAGON
Chapter One
MY FATHER MEETS THE CAT
Table of Contents
One cold rainy day when my father was a little boy, he met an old alley cat on his street. The cat was very drippy and uncomfortable so my father said, Wouldn't you like to come home with me?
This surprised the cat — she had never before met anyone who cared about old alley cats — but she said, I'd be very much obliged if I could sit by a warm furnace, and perhaps have a saucer of milk.
We have a very nice furnace to sit by,
said my father, and I'm sure my mother has an extra saucer of milk.
My father and the cat became good friends but my father's mother was very upset about the cat. She hated cats, particularly ugly old alley cats. Elmer Elevator,
she said to my father, "if you think I'm going to give that cat a saucer of milk, you're very wrong. Once you start feeding stray alley cats you might as well expect to feed every stray in town, and I am not going to do it!"
This made my father very sad, and he apologized to the cat because his mother had been so rude. He told the cat to stay anyway, and that somehow he would bring her a saucer of milk each day. My father fed the cat for three weeks, but one day his mother found the cat's saucer in the cellar and she was extremely angry. She whipped my father and threw the cat out the door, but later
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