This story of friendship and acceptance is a lovely one to share with children, both for its message and for the children-friendly style it is written in. It is a book I would be happy to use with my students at school, to help them develop both fluency and comprehension. There are opportunities to practise a variety of reading strategies throughout the story, including making predictions and indetifying character traits.

All in all, a lovely, heart-warming story well-levelled for developing readers.

I really liked this book. I thought it was easy to read down to earth it had really good colours and I also like the main characters. I did really enjoy that this was centred around how dragons are perceived as bad and a lot of books for a long time and how to not judge someone by their past history, or by other people I think it’s really fun. It’s easy to read it’s very educational also being funny and cool I would 100% recommend and I will definitely read more from this author of future.

Pretty decent early reader, that shows its narrative well in two- or three-page chapters. Two kids discover that living beneath a manhole cover is a dragon, but a wee little green thing, and one that seems to be a permanent resident of the sewers. When they go to the library they read up, but get disappointed with story after story suggesting the beasties are sheep-destroying, devilish nasty monsters. Either way, that has to be ignored – it's the birthday of one of the children and they're determined to have as much fun with their mis-maligned new friend. Even when it proves not to be in full control of its fire...

At times this was about things as opposed to being there for its narrative – it has an asthmatic main character, and it clearly wants us to see the dragon's representation in line with those issues some humans might have about theirs. But luckily it does turn into a simple little drama of the birthday party attended by the dragon. As such it's a good blend of the wondrous and the common sense, and we also see a way we can all cool it and be less of a firebrand. So a useful read as well as a bit of a pleasure.