My Father's Dragon (Illustrated)
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One cold rainy day when my father was a little boy, he met an old alley cat on his street. The cat was very drippy and uncomfortable so my father said, "Wouldn't you like to come home with me?"
This surprised the cat—she had never before met anyone who cared about old alley cats—but she said, "I'd be very much obliged if I could sit by a warm furnace, and perhaps have a saucer of milk."
Ruth Stiles Gannett
Ruth Stiles Gannett was born in 1923 and wrote her first novel at age 25. “My Father’s Dragon” was a 1948 Newberry Honor Book and went on to be an ALA notable Book. Her other titles include The Wonderful House-Boat-Train and Katie and the Sad Noise. The granddaughter of Unitarian minister and reformer Ezra Stiles Gannett, she is married to artist and calligrapher Peter Kahn and lives in upstate New York, near Cornell University. For more information, visit myfathersdragon.org.
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My Father's Dragon (Illustrated) - Ruth Stiles Gannett
Ruth Stiles Gannett
My Father's Dragon (Illustrated)
Illustrator: Ruth Chrisman Gannett
e-artnow, 2019
Contact: info@e-artnow.org
ISBN 405-76-641-8905-9
Table of Contents
Chapter One MY FATHER MEETS THE CAT
Chapter Two MY FATHER RUNS AWAY
Chapter Three MY FATHER FINDS THE ISLAND
Chapter Four MY FATHER FINDS THE RIVER
Chapter Five MY FATHER MEETS SOME TIGERS
Chapter Six MY FATHER MEETS A RHINOCEROS
Chapter Seven MY FATHER MEETS A LION
Chapter Eight MY FATHER MEETS A GORILLA
Chapter Nine MY FATHER MAKES A BRIDGE
Chapter Ten MY FATHER FINDS THE DRAGON
Chapter One
MY FATHER MEETS THE CAT
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One cold rainy day when my father was a little boy, he met an old alley cat on his street. The cat was very drippy and uncomfortable so my father said, Wouldn't you like to come home with me?
This surprised the cat — she had never before met anyone who cared about old alley cats — but she said, I'd be very much obliged if I could sit by a warm furnace, and perhaps have a saucer of milk.
We have a very nice furnace to sit by,
said my father, and I'm sure my mother has an extra saucer of milk.
My father and the cat became good friends but my father's mother was very upset about the cat. She hated cats, particularly ugly old alley cats. Elmer Elevator,
she said to my father, "if you think I'm going to give that cat a saucer of milk, you're very wrong. Once you start feeding stray alley cats you might as well expect to feed every stray in town, and I am not going to do it!"
This made my father very sad, and he apologized to the cat because his mother had been so rude. He told the cat to stay anyway, and that somehow he would bring her a saucer of milk each day. My father fed the cat for three weeks, but one day his mother found the cat's saucer in the cellar and she was extremely angry. She whipped my father and threw the cat out the door, but later