The Book of Dragons

by E. NESBIT (1858 - 1924)

8 - Kind Little Edmund, or The Caves and the Cockatrice

The Book of Dragons

A dragon who flies out of a magical book; one whose purr quiets a fussy baby; another who eats an entire pack of tame hunting-hippopotomuses: These eight dragon tales are filled with the imaginative wit of children's author Edith Nesbit. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden)