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Book Review: The Bakery Dragon

The Bakery Dragon is a children’s fantasy book written and illustrated by Devin Elle Kurtz. It was published in 2024 by Alfred A. Knopf (Penguin Random House is the parent company). The story is about a little dragon named Ember who, like all dragons, loves gold more than anything. Problem is, he doesn’t have a hoard of gold like the other dragons (who are much bigger and intimidating than him). While the bigger dragons can spew out fire and scare people into giving them gold, Ember can only spew out a small flame and cannot scare villagers into giving him anything. In his search for gold, he comes across a kind baker who teaches him how to bake tasty “gold,” and he learns that this tasty gold is even better when it is shared. I enjoyed the story, as well as the moral about sharing with others is much better than stealing and hoarding. The writing is good, but since this is a children’s book, I feel the biggest strength is the illustrations. The illustrations are beautiful, and Devin E...
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No. 2 lay on his side next to the others. It would be his turn after the other one was finished. He was not looking forward to it. He would probably be trembling in fear or try to roll away if he were able to move. But he couldn’t. He had to stay there and listen to the machine’s grinding and scraping of wood against metal, waiting for the next victim. One of the others in the group probably read his fear, for he said, “Don’t worry, it doesn’t hurt at all.” Then No. 2 was lifted by a large hand and his head was stuck inside the circular hole of the contraption. He waited to feel pain. He was turned around and around against the metal and plastic, and to his surprise, it really didn’t hurt. The other No. 2 was right. Soon he was sat back on the table along with the shaven No. 2’s. “You’re looking pretty sharp,” one of them said. No. 2 beamed. He liked his new sharpened lead. His pencil friends were right, he did need a shave.




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