by: Patricia C. Wrede

Review done by:

Elana T

Grade 6

Van Antwerp Middle School

Niskayuna, NY

The best book Iíve ever read was a book called Dealing With Dragons. It was a book about princesses, princes, dragons, knights, witches and more. It was that kind of book I couldnít put down.

Dealing With Dragons was about a princess who didnít like being a princess. Her name was Cimorene. Her parents were going to force her to marry a prince named Prince Therandil. She didnít want to marry him. So, she decided to run away. She ran to a pond, where she sat down to think about all of this. All of a sudden, she heard a voice. She looked down and saw a frog looking up at her. He said she should run away to a place called the Enchanted Forest. He gave her directions to get to a certain house. He said that the hosts there might be able to help her. So she went off to find this place.

Cimorene got there and looked up at the house. It was old and dirty, and torn apart. She knocked on the door, and nobody answered, so she walked in. "Hello?", she said. She heard some voices. She wanted to see them, so they turned a light on. She saw giant creatures with scales. Dragons! She tried to back up out the door, but it was now a huge cave. Now, Cimorene belonged to a dragon called Kazul. She was very scared, but for no reason. Kazul treated Cimorene like a friend. By the end of the book, they were friends, and very good friends.

I think Patricia C. Wrede wrote this book in a very interesting way. She turned being with dragons that were very scary, into being with dragon friends. She also made you think one thing, when something else was really going to happen. I like the way she used her descriptions. She described all of the colors on the different dragons. She also described exactly what the people looked like. She even described what the Enchanted Forest looked like. She described what the trees looked like. She described what the houses and caves looked like, and even everything inside the caves were very well described.

I would recommend it to anyone. I usually donít like to read fantasy books, but I enjoyed this one very much. I think everyone should have a chance to read it.