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    My Father's Dragon
    My Father's Dragon
    My Father's Dragon
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    My Father's Dragon

    By Ruth Stiles Gannett

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    Elmer Elevator (narrator's father as a boy) runs away with an old alley cat to rescue a flying baby dragon being exploited on a faraway island. With the help of two dozen pink lollipops, rubber bands, chewing gum, and a fine-toothed comb, Elmer disarms the fiercest of beasts on Wild Island.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCaramna Corporation
    Release dateFeb 18, 2020
    ISBN9788835374596
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    Ruth Stiles Gannett

    Ruth Stiles Gannett was born in 1923 and wrote her first novel at age 25. “My Father’s Dragon” was a 1948 Newberry Honor Book and went on to be an ALA notable Book. Her other titles include The Wonderful House-Boat-Train and Katie and the Sad Noise. The granddaughter of Unitarian minister and reformer Ezra Stiles Gannett, she is married to artist and calligrapher Peter Kahn and lives in upstate New York, near Cornell University. For more information, visit myfathersdragon.org.

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      My Father's Dragon - Ruth Stiles Gannett

      My Father’s Dragon

      Ruth Stiles Gannett

      Originally published in 1948

      Republished 2018 Caramna Corporation

      Contents

      My Father’s Dragon

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

      Chapter Nine

      Chapter Ten

      Chapter One

      My Father Meets the Cat

      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 on my father sneaked out and found the cat. Together they went for a walk in the park and tried to think of nice things to talk about. My father said, When I grow up I’m going to have an airplane. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to fly just anywhere you might think of!

      Would you like to fly very, very much? asked the cat.

      "I certainly would. I’d

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