Last week I decided to have some fun with my logo, Albert Phineas Drache.  The awesome Catherine Dair created him and I decided it was time to get a little creative myself.  I love the saying “I’m a Book Dragon! Not  a worm”.  I have seen this all over the internet and thought to search it’s origin.  What I found was a lovely book titled A Book Dragon by Donn Kushner.  This most likely has absolutely nothing to do with the saying other than it is a book loving dragon.   I found the book used on Amazon and bought the hardback edition with dust jacket.  It is in great condition.  I received the book yesterday and have not had time to read it.  I am very excited.  The illustrations are beautiful.

Title:  A Book Dragon
Author:  Donn Kushner
Publisher:  Henry Holt and Company
Publication date:  April 1988
Length:  197 pages
Genre:  Literature, Fiction, Teens
Design & Cover Illustrations by : Nancy Ruth Jackson
Summary:  Nonesuch, the last in a line of dragons, uses his unique ability to change in size to survive for six centuries, during which time he observes such different humans as a medieval monk, an eighteenth-century London chemist, and a modern American bookseller.

Color Illustration from back dust jacket. This illustration appears throughout the book in black and white.

Back of dust jacket

About the Author

I found this paper coaster from the Hotel George, London in between the pages of the book.

Illustration from the book.

Two Dragons – illustration from the book

I will post a couple of the designs I came up with soon.  Off to read about dragons.  😉

Melyna