It just goes to show you how an innocent Sunday-before-supper walk can lead to just about anything. Who could have known that it would lead to a pulsing egg, a baby dragon, and the best friend a girl could ever wish for.

Raised with love and care day by day, the dragon grows big, bigger and still bigger until...

Jerdine Nolen has created a raucous adventure about forever love, loyalty, and the joys of the unexpected. And Elise Primavera's whimsical pastels render a world where dream and reality meet with heart and wild imagination. There's every chance that after reading "Raising Dragons," you'll want to go searching for a dragon's egg of your very own! You never know.