The Book of Dragons by Edith Nesbit - To Rosamund, chief among those for whom these tales are told, The Book of Dragons is dedicated in the confident hope that she, one of these days, will dedicate a book of her very own making to the one who now bids eight dreadful dragons crouch in all humbleness at those little brown feet.
He happened to be building a Palace when the news came, and he left all...