#Dragonskin Slippers

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Have you ever had someone walk in on your conversation in the most inconvenient time possible, where they just hear the strangest phrase ever with absolutely zero context? Yeah well… that happened to me just now.

So basically I was standing out with my family eating ice cream and complaining to my aunt about how my brother refuses to read ‘girly books’ with names such as The Princess Academy, Dragonskin Slippers, and The Rose Legacy, even though I’ve told him again and again that they're really good books and he shouldn't judge them on the cover. Anyway, as I was explaining to my aunt about this situation, I said ‘I would read a book called The Manly Man's Guide to Manhood if it was an excellent book’, and this was the phrase these random people walked by and heard. I just looked up and made eye contact with one woman and she looked at me and just snickered like 

[bubblesandpages]

17, 19, and 3? 👀🍵

3. what is your favorite genre?

Fantasssssy my beloved <3

17. top 5 children’s books?

GLAD YOU ASKED and is also an evil question limiting me to five :p

For the sake of my heart I'm limiting this to children's chapter books because this list would be impossible if we were to include picture books. Nostalgia will also have a significant say as I've read more than a few excellent children's books in my adult life that, good as they are, don't quite manage the same level of blind adoration as some of these earlier ones do, even if they match them in every other regard.

The Wind in the Willows: immediately disregarding rule two, I didn't actually like this book as a kid, though the fact we had an abridged copy growing up might have had something to do with that. This book is made up entirely of charm, and perfectly nails it's atmosphere. The fact that this isn't a cottagecore classic is beyond ridiculous >:(

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane: this is probably the closest you can get to fictional book that made me the person I am. There is something so poignant and deeply, deeply touching about this book and how it depicts loss and tragedy, and the hope and perseverance that makes life worth living.

Lara and the Gray Mare: I know I never shut up about her, but she means so much to me. This series more than any other showed me how much I care about women in history being women in history. Yes, it's has a Mulan spin to it, but it takes so much of its time honoring and respecting the roles women had in society, giving their actions weight and importance, and allowing them to achieve self-actualization through the myriad of ways they contributed to society. I adore it, and thinking about it makes me ticked off with how narrowly feminism set's the parameters for female success at times in favor of more mescaline achievements.

Dragonskin Slippers: this was quite possibly my introduction to tongue-in-cheek fantasy parody while being unabashedly girly! There's adorable, thoughtful, and terrifying dragons who love summer fruits and collect dogs, and stained glass windows, an abundance of embroidery, evil princesses, non-evil counts, decidedly practical heroines, and absurd aunts who've read too many fairytales! This book is pure comfort and joy to me <3

The Complete Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie: this comes the closest out of any book I've read to capturing the pure dreamlike vagueness of fairytales. May Gibbs often gets compared to Beatrix Potter, but I'd say that Potter has a more grounded realism to her work, while Gibbs feels like an unfinished sentence. Events in her stories happen, and you get the sense they work especially on an emotional level, but events will take place with little clarification or explanation—hence the fairytale quality.

19. most disliked popular books?

(Kids and preteens look away; this isn't intended for you) Keeper of the Lost Cities is bad actually, I'm going to need all the adults to relearn what a good children's book is. Go read a Newbery or ten, because this isn't it.

Murderbot Diaries is really, really not my cup of tea. Pardon me for not finding an android reenacting me as my worst self somehow relatable or comforting to read about. Nobody in this first novella gets any good solid characterization,other than Murderbot and the captain, there's a bajillion people on this crew yet all I know about them is which other person in the team they'd like to sleep with, which, for a self-professed skipper of sex scenes seems like the least likely thing for our protagonist to zero in on, or perhaps there's a larger point here about how coupling is all that human's think about. Anyway, don't like it.

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

The unbelievable vindication of rereading beloved worn childhood favourite books and finding out they're still good.

[disillusionedmonster]

Dragonskin Slippers by Jessica Day George is about a girl surviving being sacrificed to a dragon by moving to the city and attempting to start her own dressmaking business. There is a het romance, but honestly more of the book focuses on her interactions with the dragons and attempting to find investors.

I have added it to my Goodreads and will test it out after I finish Before The Coffee Gets Cold!

[nookwyrm]

Dragon Slippers (also published as Dragonskin Slippers) by Jessica Day George

She wanted dragon gold. She got a pair of shoes.

Many stories tell of damsels in distress, who are rescued from the  clutches of fire-breathing dragons by knights in shining armor, and  swept off to live happily ever after.

This is not one of those stories.

True,  when Creel’s aunt suggests sacrificing her to the local dragon, it is  with the hope that the knight will marry Creel and that everyone (aunt  and family included) will benefit handsomely. Yet it’s Creel who talks  her way out of the dragon’s clutches. And it’s Creel who walks for days  on end to seek her fortune in the king’s city with only a bit of  embroidery thread and a strange pair of slippers in her possession.

But  even Creel could not have guessed the outcome of this tale. For in a  country on the verge of war, Creel unknowingly possesses not just any  pair of shoes, but a tool that could be used to save her kingdom…or  destroy it.

Images and text from jessicadaygeorge.com and goodreads

[lit-in-thy-heart]

i know that the writers of merlin took quite a few liberties with the content of the show but they overlooked/completely ignored one of the fundamental ideas about dragons.

neither kilgharrah nor aithusa have a hoard.

arguably, it’s understandable that kilgharrah doesn’t, what with being chained in a cave for twenty years, and i suppose morgana was a little too busy trying to kill everyone to give aithusa the opportunity to find one but idk.

i’m now just thinking about how much better the show could have been if merlin had had to steal jewellery to give to kilgharrah every time he wanted help or something and kilgharrah would complain about the cheap quality of earrings and demand something better and you just have merlin getting so frustrated with sneaking around the castle to steal jewellery that he ends up trying to figure it out on his own and things actually turn out for the better.

[literaryoasis-blog]

Favourite books- younger reader

Dragonskin slippers (Ok I think this is a childrens book)

Tiger tiger (this too)

The Roman mysteries (and this)

The chronicles of ancient darkness

Shiver chronicles

Incarceron duology

[minisculegemstone]

11,20,24??

11-what book fandom do you affiliate yourself with most?

Good Omens, absolutely. I have other books which I adore in a similar way but ya book fandoms are feral

20-A character you like but really, really shouldn't

Hm generally I stick to characters I'm supposed to like but Lord Silver from The Invisible Library. I'm pretty sure Genevieve didn't mean for me to like him, but he's a dramatic asshole faerie, how could I not?

24-First book(s) you remember being obsessed with?

The Fabled Beast Chronicles by Lari Don and The Dragonskin Slippers by Jessica Day George. The former is an absolutely wonderful series with a group of mythical creatures teaming up with a human to save the day, and it has Lee, a dramatic faerie, and I can make so many queer headcanons about this fucking thing. The latter has cool dragons. What more could a fantasy-loving child want?

[who-do-i-know-this-man]

I’m sure there’s a reason, but why is Dragonskin Slippers labeled and tagged as such when the book cover you chose says Dragon Slippers?

…actually nevermind, the series is Dragon Slippers, and book 1 used to share the series’s name but as of 2012 is now called Dragonskin Slippers. That’s rather odd. Would you by any chance be willing to tag it as both for pre-2012 readers?

Huh. I didn't even notice the different names. I just used the image and name given to me. But sure I can tag the current poll with both names. No promises on future rounds tho, my current sysatem leaves no room for notes about what tags to use so it's just a matter of if I can remember.

[thoughtsaboutsnape]

Severus's Shoes

- as a child, Severus had a pair of his dad's old work boots (magically shrunk) to fit him but he was still a bit of a sight with his old much-repaired boots.

- at Hogwarts, he had a pair of second-hand dress shoes from the local charity shop. They were faded brown leather with scruffy patches which no amount of magic could cover. He figured out how to turn them black but it didn't improve them much.

- for Christmas in his first year, Lucius presented him with a pair of dragonskin shoes, like his own. Severus took great care of these.

- with his first month's pay at Hogwarts he bought himself a pair of dragonhide boots and charmed them to be resistant to the worst potion accident.

- he has a nice pair of dark green shoes he wears for the start of term feast and any other special occasions.

- his slippers have bunny ears.

[bestudy]

#20 for the ask game 😇

20. What’s your favourite childhood book?

Its a book called Dragonskin Slippers and its about a girl who’s really good at embroidery and sewing and she makes friends with dragons. I still really enjoy it so would recommend the series to anyone :))

quarantine asks or ask me anything

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Percy Jackson this Charlie Bone that the real series that shaped me as a child was Jessica Day George's Dragonskin Slippers trilogy

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The Teen Fiction That Meant The Most To Me: Revisiting My Favourite Young Adult Books

The Teen Fiction That Meant The Most To Me: Revisiting My Favourite Young Adult Books

One of the treats of my teen years were those visits to the Young Adult spread of a local independent bookstore – it had a real chalkboard feel. I loved deliberating over handpicked recommendations, noticing what was new in that week and holding the paper bag in which the book was popped…

Some of my happiest memories involved my mum running errands in town and, on occasion, bringing back a…

[grim-you-fuck]

Oolong tea, Hot chocolate, Kombucha, Gunpowder tea

You are in a café with me, what tea do you order?Oolong tea: Which book series could you read again?

I’m actually not a big re-reader except for a few choice titles… Series wise, probably the Dragonskin Slippers series, or The Lord of the Rings (Also now that Carry On is part of a series, I can say that right?) 

Hot chocolate: Do you have (a) stuffed animal(s) sitting in your room? Which one(s)? 

DO I?! I have over 15 I’m sure… I’ll just talk about a couple of really special ones, Wilbur is a pig stuffy I’ve had since I was a kid, he’s slightly weighted, amazing for anxiety attacks, and brilliant for cuddles. The other is a small rottweiler stuffy that belonged to my Pops - I’ve called him Poppa. 

Kombucha: What do you order on a pizza?

Ham and Pineapple all the way. There’s nothing better. Fight me. 

Gunpowder tea: If you had the chance: would you go to space?

I’d try I guess? Space scares me a little though - but the views would be AMAZING! 

Thank you for the asks, hun!! 

You are in a café with me, what tea do you order?

[mayfriend]

5, 7 and 17 for the ask game

5. where do you buy books?

Charity shops!! I love going into charity shops and emerging with more books than I can safely carry. Yes I usually end up straining muscles. Yes it is worth it. I also love world of books online if I'm looking for something specific :))

7. is there a series/book that got you into reading?

Honestly, I've loved reading as long as I can remember. The earliest books I probably got obsessed with with were the Rainbow Magic series; I had a whole fairy phase that lasted multiple years, and selling my whole collection (save for two, for sentiments sake) was a definite 'oh fuck, I'm an adult now' moment.

17. top five children's books?

Ohhh man this is going to be hard bc I have so many books with happy memories attached!!

The Magic Thief by Sarah Prineas

Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian by Rick Riordan (and the entire PJO series, but Last Olympian first, then the order goes: Titan's Curse, Battle of the Labyrinth, Lightning Thief, and finally Sea of Monsters)

The Cat Royal series by Julia Golding (all of her children's books are quality though)

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

Special mentions also go to Heidi by Johanna Spyri, The Sea of Adventure by Enid Blyton (and very specifically the SEA of Adventure, not the whole Adventure series), The Frog Princess trilogy by E. D. Baker, Dragonskin Slippers by Jessica Day George, Gobbolino the Witch's Cat by Ursula Moray Williams, The Medusa Project series by Sophie McKenzie (and again, pretty much anything she writes), The Making of May by Gwyneth Rees, Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson and The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani.

I did tell you it'd be hard.