There are dragons. And chocolate. What more
could anyone want?
My son loves this book because the main character,
Aventurine, gets to resolve big, scary things without hurting anyone. Even
giant, fire-breathing dragons can be talked out of destroying the city once you
understand what they want.
Also, his mother tends to make more desserts when
this book is in the bedtime reading rotation. Yum!
Aventurine is the fiercest, bravest kind of dragon, and she's ready to prove it to her family by leaving the safety of their mountain cave and capturing the most dangerous prey of all: a human.
But when the human she captures tricks her into drinking enchanted hot chocolate, she finds herself transformed into a puny human girl with tiny blunt teeth, no fire, and not one single claw. She's still the fiercest creature in these mountains though - and now she's found her true passion: chocolate! All she has to do is walk on two feet to the human city,…
