Lush with growing plants and green grass, the artwork is filled with details that readers will pore over. Herb is the goofiest dragon of all he always seems to be gazing lovingly at some living thing. However, the tone of the text remains light and the cartoon illustrations are humorous, with googly-eyed dragons and people being eaten without apparent pain. The carnivores agree, and there is a happy ending, as "dragons and people, meat-eaters and vegetarians, live together in peace and harmony." Some of the scenes are a little scary, especially the one in which Herb is tied down in preparation for beheading by a man in a black hood. Using Herb as an example, the king makes a bargain with the rest of the dragons: if they agree to stop eating people, then the knights will stop hunting them. He is about to be wrongly executed for the murders when Nicole steps in (and into his mouth) to prove his innocence. When the knights decide to catch and behead any dragons they can find, poor Herb is easily apprehended and imprisoned. The only vegetarian dragon in a land full of carnivores, Herb peacefully tends his garden while others of his species munch on the castle's inhabitants.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.Kindergarten-Grade 3-A decidedly moral tale involving a bevy of knights, damsels, and dragons, as well as a brave girl named Nicole. Susan Marie Pitard, Weezie Library for Children, Nantucket Atheneum, MAĬopyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Kindergarten-Grade 3-A decidedly moral tale involving a bevy of knights, damsels, and dragons, as well as a brave girl named Nicole.
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