The winter feels long. But a few days of pleasant, warmer temperatures have allowed us to take hikes where normally everything would be covered in snow.
At home, it’s been all about the Dragons. We have been reading the series Wings of Fire.
Last year was all about Harry Potter and we read the series until he was having bad dreams and we decide to give it a break until he gets older.
Now come the dragons.
I’ve been expecting it for sometime now. A number of his friends have been into the books. Their play together suddenly went from robes and wands to just robes, but they were running around holding them out like wings.
They started building dragons out of Legos and Finn started asking for more Lego dragon sets.
There aren’t that many out there but the Fantastic Beasts ones seem to be easily modified to his satisfaction.
And now come the nightly readings.
Though the books don’t hold my interest like the Harry Potter novels did I still, in spite of myself, look forward to finding out what those little peace loving dragonets are going to get themselves into next on their quest to stop the dragon wars.
Will Clay find his family? Will Tsunami be a queen? Why is sweet mild mannered Glory suddenly spitting poison venom?!
I find it humorous when the author gives the dragons human characteristics. For example they have to study their history by reading scrolls. I imagine those little dragons sitting on their hind legs holding the fragile scrolls up with their long talons. Seems like it would be a little tricky without constantly ripping the pages.
But I suppose for a dragon to physically write the scrolls in the first place would be the most difficult task.
From earlier descriptions in the book, we learn the dragons are big enough to hold a cow in one… hand?… so their scrolls have got to be enormous.
One scene describes Queen Coral writing a scroll using one of her talons as a pen, dipping it in ink. Legible penmanship from a giant talon dipped in ink? Sounds a little questionable.
I can believe in dragons. But a writing dragon? Hmmm.
Do they have reporter dragons who fly with a pad in their hand covering the dragon wars? Maybe they have little harnesses with pockets. Or rather, ENORMOUS harnesses with pockets.
Finn and I went to the bookstore to hunt down book two after we finished the first one, which he had received as a gift. When I noticed that there were fourteen books in the series I nearly lost consciousness.
It’s time to up our winter hiking game.