Dream Days (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

By Kenneth Grahame

This 1898 collection of children's stories and childhood reminiscences is the author's third book. It contains Grahame's classic short story, "The Reluctant Dragon," in which a poetry-loving dragon confronts an elderly St. George. Other stories include "The Twenty-first of October," "The Magic Ring," "Its Walls Were as of Jasper," and "A Saga of the Seas."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Release date: Apr 12, 2011
• ISBN: 9781411447868

Kenneth Grahame

Kenneth Grahame (March 8, 1859 – July 6, 1932) was a British writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon, which was much later adapted into a Disney movie.

Reviews for Dream Days (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

[bjace_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Five orphaned children, being raised in the British countryside by aunts, uncles and servants but mostly by each other, experience the joys of a country childhood. Book is written entirely from a child's point of view--adults are The Olympians, who swoop down, make changes and never understand. Book is a series of sketches, lyrically written. The fractured fairy tale, the Reluctant Dragon, is part of one chapter. Sequel to the even more delightful Golden Age

[unclebob53703 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Early edition with wonderful silhouettes and illustrations by Ernest Shepard.

[comfypants · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Various episodes in the lives of five children.3/4 (Good).I hadn't realized this was a sequel, so I was initially a little put off by how it jumped in without bothering to orient the reader. It didn't take me long to settle in, though. The stories seem trivial on the surface, but Grahame tells them in a way that gives them poetry and gravity. I think one or two of them are going to stick with me. (Weirdly, the Reluctant Dragon, which is a cartoonish fairytale and out of place in this book, is not one of them.)