Dragon Tales New Award-winning author by Dav Pilkey (author and illustrator)

From Dav Pilkey, creator of the New York Times bestselling Dog Man, Cat Kid Comic Club, and Captain Underpants series, comes Dragon Tales: A Friend for Dragon, Dragon Gets By, and Dragon’s Fat Cat in a single chapter book that’s perfect for beginning readers.
Dragon Tales contains three hilarious, warmhearted, and loveable friendship stories about Dragon, a hero that everyone will cheer for!
With easy-to-read text, a short story format, plenty of humour, and full-colour artwork on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and fluency.
A Friend for Dragon:
Lonely Dragon has made a friend and he loves spending time with his new buddy! He enjoys telling scary stories, cracking funny jokes, and fixing a midnight snack for them to share.
But when his friend appears to be ill, Dragon demonstrates what it means to be a true friend.
Dragon Gets By:
When Dragon is tired, he accidentally reads an egg and fries his morning newspaper! And when Dragon goes grocery shopping, he buys more food than he can fit into his car!
Using his trademark humor and heart, Dav Pilkey illustrates the fun side of chores and responsibility.
Dragon’s Fat Cat:
When Dragon finds a stray cat in his yard, he brings it inside to escape the cold. He likes living with his new feline friend, but Dragon soon realizes that he doesn’t know how to take care of it. He doesn’t know how to train the cat, what to feed the cat, and what to do about all the yellow puddles the cat leaves behind!
Dav Pilkey illustrates the highs and lows of having a new pet in this tender story about care and responsibility.

Product Details

Catalogue number

1004 in Setanta SCB November & December 2025

Format

Hardback

ISBN

9780702344183

Publisher

Scholastic

Date published

December 30th, 2025

Other details

192 pages

Condition

New

Author/Illustrator

Dav Pilkey

When Dav Pilkey was a kid, he was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia. Dav was so disruptive in class that his teachers made him sit out in the hallway every day. Luckily, Dav loved to draw and make up stories. He spent his time in the hallway creating his own original comic books – the very first adventures of Dog Man and Captain Underpants.

In college, Dav met a teacher who encouraged him to illustrate and write. He won a national competition in 1986 and the prize was the publication of his first book, World War Won. He made many other books before being awarded the 1998 California Young Reader Medal for Dog Breath, which was published in 1994, and in 1997 he won the Caldecott Honor for The Paperboy.

The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby, published in 2002, was the first complete graphic novel spin-off from the Captain Underpants series and appeared at #6 on the USA Today bestseller list for all books, both adult and children’s, and was also a New York Times bestseller. It was followed by Super Diaper Baby 2: The Invasion of the Potty Snatchers, also a USA Today bestseller. The unconventional style of these graphic novels is intended to encourage uninhibited creativity in kids.

His stories are semi-autobiographical and explore universal themes that celebrate friendship, tolerance, and the triumph of the good-hearted.

Dav loves to kayak in the Pacific Northwest with his wife.