About the Book
Book: Drandar the Dragon Knight
Author: Terrie Hellard-Brown
Illustrator: Rachelle Brown
Genre: Chapter book for Middle Grade Readers
Release Date: February 12, 2025
Drandar is the dragon that has been prophesied. He will help the king build a strong, safe kingdom as one of his faithful knights. But Drandar doesn’t seem to fit what a knight should be or even what a real dragon should look like. He’s what Seraphina calls a “late bloomer.” Drandar is droopy, discouraged, and doubting. Will he ever become the knight he’s supposed to be?
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About the Author
Empowering families to disciple the next generation every day and everywhere is Terrie Hellard-Brown’s mission. Sparking Everyday Discipleship, the podcast hosted by Terrie Hellard-Brown focuses on discipleship in the 21st Century, great books, and sparking important conversations with our children. Terrie is a writer, speaker, missionary, and mom with a BA in sociology and psychology, an MA in education, and is currently working on her DMin.
Her books include:
- Up, Down, and All Around: A Handbook for Discipling Our Children Based on Deuteronomy 6
- Building Character Through Picture Books: 25 Family Devotions Based on Favorite Picture Books
- A World of Pancakes (a picture book on flexibility and culture and including recipes from around the world)
- Izzy’s Notebook (a picture book about forgiveness, Harper and Izzy, Best Friends Forever Series: Living the One Anothers)
- Drandar the Dragon Knight (chapter book about being who God created us to be).
Terrie creates jewelry, bookmarks, and mini books (décor) with biblical and literature themes.
Her writing has appeared in Starlight Magazine, Upper Room, and Inspire Christian Writers Anthologies and blog.
Review
I love all things dragons, so when I saw this book was up for review I had to read it. I thought it was a short, cute book that young ones would enjoy. Drandar struggled with feeling insecure and inferior to those around him, but with the help of his friends, he was able to see that everyone has a place and a unique set of gifts they can serve with. I think this book would create a wonderful opportunity to discuss with kids that each person can serve the Lord with their gifts. Every person will serve the Lord in a unique way, and their service will not look exactly like another person’s efforts.
The book was short and the sentence structure was simple. Each chapter was also small, so I think it would be a great introduction book for kids to start their reading journeys. I love how the story progressed, and we got to see Drandar grow into himself. I think kids would greatly benefit from reading this book and learning that, just because they are not as talented in one area as someone else, that they have great worth in their own gifts.
This book does mention magic, but it is a very small part of the book and is shown to be evil. I don’t think this should deter parents from letting their kids read it, as the part is small and not glorified in the slightest.
I received a complimentary copy of this book from Celebrate Lit, this in no way influenced my review. All opinions are my own.
Blog Stops
Debbie’s Dusty Deliberations, September 12
Simple Harvest Reads, September 13 (Author Interview)
Texas Book-aholic, September 13
Happily Managing a Household of Boys, September 14
For Him and My Family, September 15
Library Lady’s Kid Lit, September 16
Fiction Book Lover, September 17 (Author Interview)
Artistic Nobody, September 18
Stories By Gina, September 19 (Author Interview)
Jodie Wolfe – Stories Where Hope and Quirky Meet, September 20 (Author Interview)
A Reader’s Brain , September 21 (Author Interview)
Guild Master, September 22
A Modern Day Fairy Tale, September 23 (Author Interview)
Vicky Sluiter, September 24 (Author Interview)
Mary Hake, September 24
For the Love of Literature, September 25 (Author Interview)
Giveaway
To celebrate her tour, Terrie is giving away the grand prize of a $50 Amazon Gift Card, signed copy of the book and Bible study that accompanies the book, three stickers, a dragon velvet bookmark, and an armor of God necklace!!
Be sure to comment on the blog stops for extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.
This should be a very interesting novel. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for the review
Looks very clever. Nice artwork.