The Trouble with Dragons is an excellent children’s book
about the environment that was written and illustrated by the extremely talented
Debi Gliori.
The dragons are very colorful and have very expressive
features. The city that the Dragons live becomes more and more crowded with all
of the space taken up. There are some amusing small touches to the pictures of the book. The motorway sign
reads to CO2 and the factory chimney is of cigarettes.
In the book, the Dragons do not look after their environment. The Dragons
begin to experience the effects of the sea beginning to rise and the affects of
their wastefulness.
The dragons agree to adapt and modify their behavior There
are many things in the way the Dragons live which have to be changed in order
to live in an environmentally sustainable way. These changes are simply
explained so that the Dragons do not become extinct..
The Trouble with Dragons is a children’s book that is about
caring, sharing and working together to look after the environment. It is
evaluated as an All Green Children’s book.
