In this third fantasy book in the Dragon Keepers series, Kate Klimo introduces readers to a magical library filled with shelf elves and reveals the secrets of the gigantic red book that Jesse and Daisy discovered in The Dragon in the Sock Drawer.
Now the dragon keepers and their dragon must storm Sadie’s castle and rescue the professor from the witch and her pack of vicious dog-men! She has hatched a wicked scheme to use the professor to both find St. The kidnapper is none other than Sadie Huffington, the girlfriend of their enemy, St. Jesse and Daisy go online to ask Professor Andersson, their favorite dragon expert, for help and end up seeing him being kidnapped! In The Dragon in the Sock Drawer, the first in a new series, author Kate Klimo has cleverly imagined what it would be like if a couple of modern day kids had to raise a dragon.ĭragon keepers Jesse and Daisy need help!Įmmy, their rapidly growing dragon, has become a real grouch, saying she’s missing ‘something,’ and the cousins don’t have a clue what that something is. Here Jesse and Daisy discover that the little dragon s hatching means that they are now Dragon Keepers, and not only do they have to feed Emmy but they also have to keep her safe from the villainous Saint George, who has kept himself alive over centuries by drinking dragons blood. An Internet search leads them to the library and then back to the Internet, where they find a strange Web site called foundadragon. Soon the two kids are at Emmy s beck and call, trying to figure out what to feed her. Jesse names the bright green dragon Emmy, short for Emerald. So it’s a dream come true when Jesse s newly found thunder egg hatches and a helpless, tiny but very loud baby dragon pops out. Ten year old cousins Jesse and Daisy have always wanted something magical to happen to them. Let’s get started.Grade Level: 3 4 Age Level: 8 9 Listening Level: Grade 3 4 Together, they form a dark constellation of stories that generations have traced, in wonder and fear and hope.īelow, I've ranked King's books in order from worst to best. That still leaves over sixty novels and more than a dozen collections of tales. Any published stories compiled within a larger collection will not be ranked singularly. The man has written over seventy books, so some nod to brevity is required. The following list is an attempt to rank King’s published work in all its darkness, weatherworn beauty, and surprising weirdness. Of course, in so long and varied a career, there are exhilarating highs, a few bewildering lows, and many unexpected diversions.
Nat Cassidy, author of this year’s Mary: An Awakening of Terror, put it best, describing King as his “mother tongue.” He is not just a writer he is an industry, an aesthetic, a genre of one. I have interviewed hundreds of horror writers from all across the genre’s wide spectrum, and when asked for their inspirations and their gateways to fearful fiction, so many leap immediately to King. But for millions of readers and writers, he is our North Star, our Southern Cross. Such prolificacy has often led to sniffing criticism from those who consider him “merely” a horror writer (as if horror is anything “mere”). Almost everything he has ever written has been optioned or adapted for the screen, in some cases several times. King has regularly published two or three books per year, a stream of words that flows incessantly west towards Hollywood.
He arrived during a resurgent interest in all things frightening–following the success of Ira Levin's Rosemary’s Baby (1967) and William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist (1971)-and quickly set about reshaping the genre in his own image. Since the publication of his first novel Carrie, just shy of fifty years ago, King has held dominion over the landscape of horror. There will probably never be another author like Stephen King.
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