Prince Lander and the Dragon War (Green Ember Tales of Old Natalia: Book 3) by S.D. Smith simple Aesop's Fables

Aesop's Fables

The discerning attention Kaufman pays to overlooked corners of his subject's biography reveals Audubon's fabulist streak (he ginned up funds for his first book by inventing an eagle with a rumored 10-foot wingspan) and ethical lapses (he once passed off a hawk specimen from a fellow Academy of Natural Sciences member as his own)

-THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM

This reprint of his actual journal offers modern readers a charming glimpse of a vanished era through the eyes of a nineteenth-century farm boy

A 2021 New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Book

Prince Lander and the Dragon War (Green Ember Tales of Old Natalia: Book 3) by S.D. Smith simple Aesop's FablesOld Natalia, during the declining years of Whitson Mariner and the rise of tyrannical dragons and their master, Namoz Dragonking. Rabbitkind faces extinction, and Prince Lander must follow his aging father to the last desperate edge of hope. A possible future is glimpsed dimly through a veil of darkness and death. This will not be a safe ending. Blood calls. Oathbreakers attack. Allies fracture. Legends end. S. D. Smith Lives in West Virginia with his