TY  - BOOK
AU  - McAlister,Caroline
AU  - Wheeler,Eliza
TI  - John Ronald's dragons: the story of J.R.R. Tolkien 
SN  - 9781626720923
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York
PB  - Roaring Brook Press
KW  - Tolkien, J. R. R.
KW  - Authors, English
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Illustrated works
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Biographies
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (page 39)
N2  - "A captivating picture book biography of a boy who imagined a world full of dragons and grew up to be beloved author J. R. R. Tolkien. John Ronald loved dragons. He liked to imagine dragons when he was alone, and with his friends, and especially when life got hard or sad. After his mother died and he had to live with a cold-hearted aunt, he looked for dragons. He searched for them at his boarding school. And when he fought in a Great War, he felt as if terrible, destructive dragons were everywhere. But he never actually found one, until one day, when he was a grown man but still very much a boy at heart, when he decided to create one of his own. This picture book biography introduces the beloved creator of Middle Earth and author of The Hobbit to a new generation of children who see magic in the world around them. "--
ER  -