Title: The Little Rainbow Dragon: And 17 More Colour Stories
Author: Marion Ireland and Margaret Lewer
Publisher: XlibrisAU
ISBN: 978-1-5434-0247-6
Pages: 64
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Reviewed by: Beth Adams
Pacific Book Review
A cornucopia of colorful stories, co-creators Marion Ireland and Margaret Lewer have produced a collection of fanciful characters and tales designed to educate while entertaining young children as they embark off to dreamland; or to read to themselves from cover-to-cover on a rainy day. The Little Rainbow Dragon: And 17 More Colour Stories have more stories than needed for a single bedtime reading, so night by night children can be read to sleep with the next color of the rainbow inspiring a character or theme using that particular color. For example, yellow for the sun, orange for the fruit, green for frogs, red for a brightly colored racing car; and so on. Wonderfully fascinating ways to associate a color with a story, these short chapters are beautifully interwoven with illustrations creating a very impressionable and memorable reading experience.Roy G. Biv, you may know his name as the acronym who’s letters of his name indicate the colors of the rainbow in order, would be very pleased with the associations of storylines given to each of the bold colors. The co-creators went further – they included black & white, turquoise, brown, pink and purple for examples, rounding off additional stories for a more comprehensive collection. Even a rainbow colored lorikeet with a flower in its beak was highlighted on one of the stories.
As I paged through these stories my enjoyment and impression of just how perfectly balanced in themes each of the stories progressed, many ending with a rhetorical question for the children to ponder. At the end of the book is a musical song with lyrics to have a person play the music while singing the song. I would call this “icing on the cake” by adding an additional level of fun to this already enjoyable book. The Little Rainbow Dragon: And 17 More Colour Stories is more than a bedtime storybook, it’s a collection; worthy of gracing the night table of any youngster’s bedroom, boy or girl. Having the ability to pick up this book at any of the indexed rainbow colored chapters; this one book would be an excellent addition to a family’s library or be an excellent gift. As a rainbow is more beautiful than each of the individual colors, this book is synergistically more enjoyable together as a collection. Readers of this book will find their own pot of gold at the end of these rainbow-colored stories.
