An introduction to Handbook for Dragon Slayers. Tilda's Book Talk. This is the foot deformity that Princess Tilda was born with. About: Handbook for Dragon Slayers from the author's website. Winner: Schneider Family Book Award 2014 (Middle Grades), the DetCon1 Award for Middle Grade Speculative Fiction (The Reading Robot) From HarperCollins Children’s BooksClick through for purchasing options Paperback: May 27, 2014 ISBN: 978-0062008183 Hardback: May 28, 2013 ISBN: 978-0062008169 Tilda has never given much thought to dragons, attending instead to her endless duties and wishing herself free of a princess’s responsibilities.
When a greedy cousin steals Tilda’s lands, the young princess goes on the run with two would-be dragon slayers. Before long she is facing down the Wild Hunt, befriending magical horses, and battling flame-spouting dragons. On the adventure of a lifetime, and caught between dreams of freedom and the people who need her, Tilda learns more about dragons—and herself—than she ever imagined. Read the first five chapters at HarperCollins.com Extras: Wyrm-Tongue Glossary, Key to Historical and Mythological Personages, Easter Eggs, all COMING SOON. Author's Blog about Handbook for Dragon Slayers. The book I’m writing at the moment, whose working title is A Handbook for Dragon Slayers (this will doubtless change, even though I think it’s genius, but there’s more than genius that goes into choosing titles for books), has a playlist.
Which is weird, because I TRIED and TRIED to come up with a playlist for The Princess Curse and I just never did. I hardly listened to any music during the first draft–I composed nearly all of the draft in the Reading Room at the Graduate Library at University of Michigan before work, pictured here: It was so quiet there, I didn’t really need any music. Â I have a strong memory of listening to KT Tunstall’s “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree” on drives home and thinking about plot points around this time, but I don’t know that they were necessarily plot points related to The Princess Curse. Metallic Horses Do Exist! We are referring, of course, to the Akhal-Teke, a breed best known for the natural metallic bloom of their coats.
But do you know what is responsible for their signature sheen? The hair structure of Akhal-Tekes is quite fine and rather unusual. Their “glow” is caused by the smallness, or even absence, of the opaque core that is typically at the center of the hair shaft. The transparent part of the hair, or medulla, takes up the extra space and acts much like a fiber optic tube, bending light through one side of the hair and refracting it out the other side. When most people hear “Akhal-Teke,” they probably think of the breed’s archetypical glittering gold color, featured in the photos below.
Recently, photos Akhal-Tekes have been making their way around social media outlets. And a few months ago BuzzFeed ran this collection of Akhal-Teke photos under the subhead: “That mane! Check out these photos and share your thoughts, Horse Nation! Top photo: horseforum.com [teke.ca] [weheartit.com] More Books about Dragons! Beowulf’s fiery nemesis, Tolkien’s dwarf-munching Smaug, the sinuous creatures of Chinese folklore—throughout literary history, dragons have captured the imagination as worthy foes and wise ancients.
Dragon encounters test human mettle and ingenuity. Their majestic presence cannot help but inspire awe, even when they try to fricassee our favorite heroes. The current explosion of dragon literature owes a great deal to landmark titles like Robin McKinley’s The Hero and the Crown, whose dragon infected an entire kingdom with evil thoughts, and Anne McCaffrey’s science fiction “Dragonriders of Pern” series, which imagined dragons as the product of selective breeding. The next generation of dragon books was equally entrancing. Patricia C. For Hatchlings BAKER , Ken. BAR-EL, Dan. GLIORI, Debi. KIRK, David. LIGHT, Steve. MEISTER, Cari. For Dragonets BAILLIE, Allan. BRESLIN, Theresa. NEUBECKER, Robert. PEET, Mal & Elspeth Graham. WARNER, Sally. For Treasure- Seeking Wyrms ANDERS, Lou. References for Handbook for Dragon Slayers.