Dragon Stories -- An Annotated List

This list will remain in its current size for now.
I do not have much time to update or add new items.
A little disclaimer: fairrosa is not a "dragon lore expert."
Please do not ask her about dragon-related questions.

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FOREWORD

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Dragons From Western Folk Tales

• The Dragon of Boeotia
  • The Serpent's Teeth
• Beowulf
  • Beowulf: A prose summary version of the tale of Beowulf and the dragon
• Dragons in the Bible
• Drac
• How Three Mighty Heroes Saved the Sun and the Moon from the Dragon
• Ivanko and the Dragon
• The Loathsome Dragon
• Jack and the Fire Dragon
  • Old Fire Dragaman
• Saint George and the Dragon
  • Faerie Queene, Book I: The Spenser Full-Text
• Tarasque
  • The Gargouille
• Vouivre
• The Yellow Dragon

Dragons From Eastern Folk Tales

• Liu Yi
  • The Daughter of the Dragon King
• Dragon's Pearl
  • Wang Niang Tan: The same story told in Chinese
• The Jewel from a Dragon's Head
• The Luminous Pearl
  a similar story featuring a Dragon King in Chinese:
  • Lieh Ren Hai Li Bu
• The Monkey's Liver
• The Dragon's Revenge
• Zhou Chu and the Three Beasts

Dragons in Children's Books

Picture Books

• Alexander and the Dragon by Katharine Holabird
• Beware the Dragons by Sarah Wilson
• Custard the Dragon by Ogden Nash
• The Dragon Nanny by C.L.G. Martin
• The Little Girl and the Dragon by Else Homelund Minarik
• Matthew's Dragon by Susan Cooper
• Nelly's Garden by Elizabeth Slote
• The Popcorn Dragon by Jane Thayer
• There's a Dragon in My Sleeping Bag by James Howe
• World Famous Muriel & the Scary Dragon by Sue Alexander

Fiction

• Dove Isabeau by Jane Yolen
• Dragonsong Trillogy by Anne McCaffrey
• The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia Wrede
• Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville
• My Father's Dragon (Trillogy) by Ruth Gannett
• The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Graham

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