About the Book Drandar the Dragon Knight

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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My Thoughts on Drandar the Dragon Knight

Drandar the Dragon Knight is a wonderful children’s book! It’s focused towards the middle grade years, but I think all ages will enjoy!  It is a chapter book.  If you’ve got a child who loves dragons or the medieval and all things knights, this is the book for you!  It is a Christian fiction novel, and I enjoyed it as well!

Our first exposure to this novel was letting my older children read it on their own.  And then we read it as a read-aloud as part of our school unit. This year, we’re focusing heavily on history.  We’re going to start US History this fall, and a quick refresher on Medieval was needed to get some of the active wiggles out as we transition back into school. 

So, if you see my kids sword fighting and talking about knights and dragons, now you know why.  They might also talk about kings and land and feuds, but do know it’s all on the up and up.  

For an age range.  

I’d say reading on their own from about a fourth-grade reading level and up.  But you know your child and how well they read.  This is a chapter book and not one of the beginner chapter books.  With us reading it aloud, my 18-month-old was in the room, but he was mainly playing with his trains.  The four-year-old did love the book, but she’s very advanced for four.  

I also enjoyed it as an adult, and so did several of my older teenagers who are adults as well.  As long as you’re a child at heart, you’re going to love this one!

This book was very well written.  It really grabbed your attention and refused to let go.  There are several allegories for the Bible and stories from its pages within here as well.  And there are some great life lessons on self-worth and growing up.  All in all, I’d say this will stay on our shelf for the foreseeable future, and we’d love to add more like it to the shelf as well.  

I have voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book, which I received from Celebrate Lit. All views expressed are only my honest opinion. I was not required to write a positive review, nor was I compensated in any other way. All opinions expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the FTC regulations.

About the Author of Drandar the Dragon Knight

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 Favourite 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 jewellery, bookmarks, and mini books (décor) with biblical and literary themes.

Her writing has appeared in Starlight Magazine, Upper Room, and Inspire Christian Writers Anthologies and blog.

Blog Stops for Drandar the Dragon Knight

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 for Drandar the Dragon Knight

To celebrate her tour, Terrie is giving away the grand prize of a $50 Amazon Gift Card, a signed copy of the book, a Bible study that accompanies the book, three stickers, a dragon velvet bookmark, and an Armour of God necklace!!

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