![]() Upon reading your post today, I am thrilled that you are continuting to write about this series. I have been slowly purchasing all of your books for my classroom library, despite the fact that some are hard to come by in the United States. They have now begged me to compelte the entire series of the Dragon Keeper for my classroom library and have proposed that I get rid of the book we read for Ancient Egypt so they can read the Ramose series instead. They ponder philisophical questions about the characters and analyze the plot and themes on their own! I love the fact that your novel has touched so many of my students and sparked their interest in historical fiction. I am reading the first book, The Dragon Keeper, out loud to my students and they are entranced by it! They beg me to keep reading it to them. I just wanted to thank you for this amazing series. I ordered the rest of the series for myself and read them in a matter of days. ![]() I read the book and was instantly in love. In California, the 6th graders study Ancient China extensively and I wanted literature that was set in Anceint China. I came across the first novel in your Dragon Keeper series two years ago while researching historical fiction for my 6th grade Humanities classes. I’ll see tomorrow when I reread my ideas from today if I still think they work. Today I did a big plot diagram on my whiteboard and I think I made some progress. I have to reorganise events, rethink the characters’ motivation, and think of another way for them to do what I want them to do. The Hungry Bookshelf WILKINSON Carole : Dragon Keeper : Fantasy Book - Dragon Keeper by Carole Wilkinson ISBN: 9781742090593 COVER: Paperback 21cm x 14cm. In the synopsis I’ve got “A meets B and together they do C.” But when I come to write it, I find that A and B can’t possibly meet because they are in different places, and, what’s more, D hasn’t happened yet, so they couldn’t do C anyway. The story I am writing is changing as I write it. I wrote a six or seven page synopsis, so I thought I had it all worked out. Ping grows from a frightened slave girl with no name into a strong, self-sufficient young woman who knows her purpose, and witty, warm Danzi will have every reader wishing for a scaly companion of his or her very own. I spent about two months last year working out the characters and the plot. Dragon Keeper is a humorous, wise quest tale with strong, identifiable characterizations. ![]() I suppose I thought it might be a bit easier, fifth time round. But it doesn’t follow on from Dragon Moon. All the detail brings your imagination to life and I bet this will be a book you will treasure.So I’ve started writing a new novel. It is in my top 5 favourite books, up there with the all time favourite, Thunderwith. ![]() When I read it, I never knew it was jam packed with information and sayings and their meanings.Ĭarole has put so much effort into researching and writing this book, that skipping a sentence will make you lose the plot. This book is packed with adventure, and teaches history at the same time. She meets a few friends and enemies along the way and becomes the target of some of the most famous and powerful people is China. She then escapes and journeys to the so called ‘ocean’ with two true friends, and finds who she truly is. Outstanding author, Carole Wilkinson has captured every detail in her three amazing books, Dragon Keeper, The Garden of The Purple Dragon and Dragon Moon.Ī slave girl is sold as a child to master Han, the keeper of one of the emperor's palaces.
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