{"id":127,"date":"2022-01-25T17:41:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T17:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/la-granota.com\/blogs\/?p=127"},"modified":"2022-01-25T17:41:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T17:41:24","slug":"dragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/la-granota.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2022\/01\/25\/dragons\/","title":{"rendered":"draGons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Here is a small glimpse of the fascinating adventure story, “draGons!”, by Wilhelmina Lyre<\/a> and Georgia Lythgoe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was first published 3 years ago (2018) in a printed, quadrilingual edition (English, Catalan, Spanish, and drAgon), although the story (in English and drAgon) and illustrations had been finished 2 years previously. Ms. Lyre and Ms. Lythgoe are currently working on a sequel, “The tiGerdraGon From Hell”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms. Lythgoe (currently 10 years old) is La Gr@not@’s specialist consultant on all matters to do with dragons (and draGons).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

draGons!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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by Wilhelmina Lyre<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(for Georgia and Greg)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

illustrations by Georgia Lythgoe<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(with a tiny<\/strong> bit of help from Mum)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There is this draGon, whose name is XpqmtvbfrLpxptm. Now, I suspect that a few of my readers might not speak drAgon, and won\u2019t know quite how to pronounce that name. So I\u2019m going to give you an idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It sounds something like a door being slammed, something like a squishy-ripe fig falling onto a hedgehog\u2019s back, something like a doe-deer\u2019s sneeze, with a tiny, weenie suggestion of purple wind in a chimney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you got that? Good!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But I\u2019m very much afraid that \u2013 if a grown-up is reading this book with you \u2013 they will have no idea of how to combine those sounds correctly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, to make it easy on the grow-ups (and we should always make things as easy as possible for these poor creatures, hem hem hem), we\u2019re going to allow them to call the draGon \u2018Georgia\u2019. Even grown-ups should be able to handle that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anyway, XpqmtvbfrLpxptm \u2013 or Georgia \u2013 lives in a land where there are lots of hills. Which is a good thing, really, because when she\/he\/it (one never can be quite sure with draGons) doesn\u2019t want to be disturbed, he\/it\/she simply lies down and blends in with all those hills. [See if you can tell which of these hills is\/are (one never can be quite sure with draGons) Georgia.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We BELIEVE<\/strong><\/em> that Georgia had help with this drawing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There is a lot of discussion about whether draGons breathe fire and\/or fly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Jackson J. (\u2018Wiggly Ears\u2019) Jackson, MDS, PhD, FRS, CBE of Oxford University spent 24 years studying these questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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… and with SOME of the titles in this one.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

At the end of that time, he published his findings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Maybe they do. And maybe they don\u2019t.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anyway, back to \u2018our\u2019 draGon (known to grown-ups as Georgia):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\/she\/he knows perfectly well whether he\/it\/she can fly\u2026 but it\/he\/she isn\u2019t saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The complete story of “draGons!<\/strong>\/draCs!<\/strong>\/\u00a1draGones!<\/strong>” will be one of the first of La Gr@not@’s digital books (once again in a quadrilingual edition), ready and waiting for our relaunch in the spring of 2022!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is a small glimpse of the fascinating adventure story, “draGons!”, by Wilhelmina Lyre and Georgia Lythgoe. It was first published 3 years ago (2018) in a printed, quadrilingual edition (English, Catalan, Spanish, and drAgon), although the story (in English and drAgon) and illustrations had been finished 2 years previously. Ms. Lyre and Ms. Lythgoe… Continue reading draGons<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/la-granota.com\/blogs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/la-granota.com\/blogs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/la-granota.com\/blogs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la-granota.com\/blogs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la-granota.com\/blogs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/la-granota.com\/blogs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/la-granota.com\/blogs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/la-granota.com\/blogs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la-granota.com\/blogs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la-granota.com\/blogs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}