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The Boy Who Grew Dragons (The Boy Who Grew Dragons 1)

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The Boy Who Grew Dragons (The Boy Who Grew Dragons 1) by Andy Shepherd, and Sara Ogilvie

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By Andy Shepherd, and and, Sara Ogilvie

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES CHILDREN’S BOOK PRIZE 2019

LONGLISTED FOR THE BLUE PETER BOOK AWARDS 2019

‘Irresistible … a modern classic’ GUARDIAN

‘A warm-hearted debut … lovely, expressive, characterful’ SUNDAY TIMES

When Tomas discovers a strange old tree at the bottom of his grandad’s garden, he doesn’t think much of it. But he takes the funny fruit from the tree back into the house – and gets the shock and delight of his life when a tiny dragon hatches! The tree is a dragonfruit tree, and Tomas has got his very own dragon, Flicker …

Tomas soon finds out that life with Flicker is great fun, but also very … unpredictable. Yes, dragons are wonderful, but they also set fire to your toothbruth and leave your pants hanging from the TV aerial. Tomas has to learn how to look after Flicker – and quickly. And then something extraordinary happens – more dragonfruits appear on the tree. Tomas is officially growing dragons …

The first book in a sparky and utterly enchanting new series.

Reviews

18 Apr 2025

A good series for P4/5 readers. It is a relatively simple story and plot but one that is suitable to this age group. Lovely illustrations throughout and a good storyline of a boy and his friends who finds dragonfruit in his grandfather’s garden and has to keep his new pet a secret. Others in the series which keeps the pupils interesed

27 Nov 2024

It is a bit funny how it says some funny things at the start

10 Sep 2024

I recommend this book because I like dragons and if you like them too you will think this book is marvellous. Read the book.

02 Sep 2024

Part read really enjoying it

02 Sep 2024

Dragons are so cool!

25 Aug 2024

I like when in the book it shows you a funny picture of the tom tom the cat jumping. My favourite character was Grim because he always looks angry and that made me laugh.

21 Aug 2024

A lighthearted book that will be enjoyed by younger readers. The dragons are quite possibly the coolest pet that any child would like and the relationship it has with the cat brings a chuckle to the reader.

20 Aug 2024

The writing was easy to read and the illustrations were good.

18 Aug 2024

loved this

18 Aug 2024

I want my own dragon! An orange and purple dragon.

15 Aug 2024

i like the story is ok 1 time readable my loved person in the book is grandpa

14 Aug 2024

Really enjoyed reading this fun book

10 Aug 2024

I like this book because it is very interesting and my favourite character in the book is Tomas. I would recommend this book to someone because it has a good moral lesson.

08 Aug 2024

It’s funny that the boy thinks he is growing a real fire breathing dragon but he is actually growing dragon fruit with his granddad!

01 Aug 2024

I really enjoyed this book and am looking forward to reading the next in the series.

29 Jul 2024

Funny interesting book

29 Jul 2024

Nice easy read and funny

25 Jul 2024

When the Dragon poo fell into the boys head

21 Jul 2024

I enjoyed this book but it was a hard read at times x

12 Jul 2024

I really enjoyed reading this book.

10 Jul 2024

It was like being the actual character doing all the things he did in the book. Everything came to life in my head it was like having a realistic dream. There were so much descriptive phrases it sounded so real.

I really enjoyed the book

I think the author did a really good job of explaining and making the story come to life in the imagination.

09 Jul 2024

Funny and exciting

16 Feb 2024

A boy was out in the garden and had got rid of a plant he found a glowing bud that night a thing flew out of the glowing bud and hid under a blanket he moved it and there was …red…dragon! To be continued in the very exiting book.

19 Jan 2024

i have loved the part where he grew the dragons

07 Jan 2024

It was really good. My favourite character was Flicker.

27 Dec 2023

This books was so awesome. I liked the moment where Thomas found the Dragon. Usually Dragons are always scary but in this book they look so cute because they illustrated nicely. I liked the Dragon more than Thomas. I would strongly recommend to children's to my classmates.

23 Dec 2023

Everything was so fantastic because I never knew that baby dragon would make spark’s instead of making fire and that there poo’s would explode

21 Dec 2023

Tomas was a good character in the book, I loved Flicker. The book was amazing and exciting to read what the dragon did next.

26 Sep 2023

My faverout characters were Kat,the dragons and Lolli.

16 Sep 2023

I liked the dragon best.

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