Saint George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges

I’ll give this book 5 stars just for that experience.

It was fun to see the power of a story over them and how engrossed they became in it. They asked me to get more books like this. I guess tales of fighting dragons doesn’t excite me any more, but the kids were into it. I don’t think I had heard this story yet.

I thought the details of the artwork were amazing. They both thought this was a great book and they both gave this 5 stars. She asked me why the princess isn’t helping to fight the dragon? I said I guess she didn’t know how or didn’t have the skills. He was very into the sword fight with the dragon and he got so wound up he would grab my arm as I was reading. The nephew kept asking what will happen next. Even with the longer story, both children were engaged in the story. There is a big full page of illustration and a full page of text so it’s a longer story. They almost look like stained glass windows at times. This has very detailed drawings with beautiful colors and it uses panes around the edges similar to something Jan Brett does. 'I need good ideas, and they don't come out of machines,' she once said.įairy tales are pretty amazing. She wrote her stories on a notepad or a typewriter. Hodges died of heart disease on Decemat her home in Oakmont, Pennsylvania. She was a professor of library science at the University of Pittsburgh, where she retired in 1976. Her 1985 book Saint George and the Dragon, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman, won the Caldecott Medal of the American Library Association. Beginning in 1958 with One Little Drum, she wrote and published more than 40 books. She trained as a librarian at Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University, under Elizabeth Nesbitt, and she volunteered as a storyteller at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. when in 1937 he became curator at the Stephen Foster Memorial. A 1932 graduate of Vassar College, she arrived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her husband Fletcher Hodges Jr. She enrolled at Tudor Hall, a college preparatory school for girls. She was born Sarah Margaret Moore in Indianapolis, Indiana to Arthur Carlisle and Annie Marie Moore. Urn:oclc:767883808 Scandate 20091110043710 Scanner 'Peggy' Hodges was an American writer of books for children. OL1903685W Page-progression lr Pages 44 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0316367958 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:40:49 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA105916 Camera Canon 5D City Boston Donor

Saint George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges