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I purchased A Book Dragon after seeing a review in an old copy of Dragon magazine. I enjoyed the search for identity story about an anorexic dragon better than the similar idea of the shallow Jonathan Seagull. Even though the book is only about 200 pages with pictures, I had to pause to soak in the ideas of some of the chapters. I also enjoyed the fact that Kushner lacked the misanthrope of the similarly anthropmorphic Watership Down (since a book is for humans, why insult humans?). The bias views of the grandmother dragon were there for the sake of humor. The writing, while free of adult language, uses some big words that make it more suitable for a 16-year-old who has a bigger vocabulary or the patience to check a dictionary rather than the recomended 9-12. As someone much older, I found the writing extremely enjoyable. My problem with A Book Dragon was that the dragon had a sense of detachment to the world around him (he focused mainly on his eating disorder though he would interact with others), until he arrived at the modern world, like the motivations of those in history were not as real to the people around as the motivations today. The final villian and the dragon's response to him represented this. The final villian also started out as fascinating since it was a character that I had never seen represented only to change to a cardboard cut-out to justify the dragon's response. Overall, I enjoyed the book, though I did not find it overpowering at the end as I did at the beginning.Read full review