Elmer and the Dragon

by Ruth Stiles Gannett | Children's Books | This book has not been rated.
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A stand-alone sequel to My Father's Dragon, in which Elmer Elevator and the flying baby dragon help the king of the canaries find treasure.

About the Author:

American children's writer Ruth Stiles Gannett Kahn, born August 12, 1923, is best known for My Father's Dragon and its two sequels—collectively sometimes called the My Father's Dragon or the Elmer and the Dragons series or trilogy.

Gannett graduated from City and Country School in Greenwich Village, New York City, in the class of 1937. She then attended Vassar College, graduating with a B.A. in chemistry in 1944. Gannett's first novel, My Father's Dragon, was published by Random House in 1948 and was a runner-up for the annual Newbery Medal recognizing the year's "most distinguished contribution" to American children's literature. She wrote two more novels in that series, Elmer and the Dragon and The Dragons of Blueland. The books were illustrated by Ruth Chrisman Gannett, her stepmother, and the typography was designed by her husband, H. Peter Kahn. These popular books have been translated into fourteen languages. Gannett wrote two other short children's novels, The Wonderful House-Boat-Train (1949) and Katie and the Sad Noise (1961), illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg and Ellie Simmons.
Ruth Gannett married artist, art history professor, and calligrapher H. Peter Kahn, (1921–1997). The couple have seven daughters and eight grandchildren. She lives near Trumansburg, New York, near Cornell University, where Peter Kahn was employed for forty years. She is the great-granddaughter of Ezra Stiles Gannett.Ezra Stiles Gannett (1801–1871) who was a prominent Unitarian minister in Boston, Massachusetts and the grandson of Ezra Stiles, a Yale University President.

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