The Dragon and the Turtle, by Donita Paul and Evangeline Denmark, is a fairy-tale story of godly friendship. The cover photo is a cute picture of the main characters that excites you to open the book and read. Inside you'll find soft but engaging pictures illustrating the story line. In the story, Padraig the dragon goes searching for "creeping bugs" to eat, but instead finds a forlorn turtle who cannot find his home. Instead of pleasing his hungry stomach, Padraig decides to help, and flies away to search for Roger the turtle's description of his home. Each time, it is the wrong house, and Roger tells Padraig a new sensory description of his house to help him find it (i.e. "it smells like cookies and feels like the beach"). There is alot of good repetition of story elements and phrases, as well as those that build on one another (like the descriptions of Roger's house). I was a bit disappointed with the ending to the story. It is a long story, and builds to the point where you imagine a nice twist at the end, but the ending is fairly logical. However, the characters do set forth a nice example of selflessness, friendship, and kindness. The end of the book also has some nice extension activities and discussion, which is very nice.
*I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review.
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