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FACING, FIGHTING, & DEFEATING The Red Dragon of Pride: The Chronicles of Sir Rolland Paterlot
128 pages, Hardcover
Published March 31, 2024
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June 24, 2024
Wonderful first volume of combating the seven deadly sins. An excellent book for parents to read to their children and discuss. My children enjoyed the story very much, as well as the included QR codes for supplemental listening. We’re looking forward to making our way through the series!
August 6, 2026
This book gives good lessons and inspiration but is marred by occasionally painful writing and artwork. We liked it best as a read-aloud, which let me bring out the book’s best qualities and edit out the parts I liked least.
The book personifies the deadly sins as invisible dragons and gives lessons that I hope will teach my children good things and already were a good reminder for me — not something I can say about most books! About the dragon of pride, as said by one of the characters: “Its mottos for life are ‘I did it my way’ and ‘I will not serve’ and ‘my will be done.’ … [He] isn’t just accepted now… he is often celebrated. You must be on your guard at all times.”
Each book in the series promote a virtue as an antidote to a particular sin. This one makes spiritual warfare sound necessary and exciting and includes a character’s First Confession and First Reconciliation — and they are pretty inspiring and still relatable. Nice!
But besides some elevated passages, the artwork, character development and writing quality are often not much better than that of the Rainbow Fairy Magic or Magic Treehouse series. Phrasing could be problematic… one of my teens took a peek and was really bothered by the dragon’s “sardonic muscles." I was most bothered that the main character’s father died a sudden, tragic death three weeks before the book starts, but this has almost no effect on the character’s life (besides moving him to another country). I also didn’t like the embedded QR codes.
As I said, we got around many of the problems by reading aloud. I haven’t read a book aloud to my 9-year-old daughter in years—she is usually reading fantasy books hundreds of pages long on her own—and we both enjoyed spending time together with this book and plan to continue with the rest of the series.
The book personifies the deadly sins as invisible dragons and gives lessons that I hope will teach my children good things and already were a good reminder for me — not something I can say about most books! About the dragon of pride, as said by one of the characters: “Its mottos for life are ‘I did it my way’ and ‘I will not serve’ and ‘my will be done.’ … [He] isn’t just accepted now… he is often celebrated. You must be on your guard at all times.”
Each book in the series promote a virtue as an antidote to a particular sin. This one makes spiritual warfare sound necessary and exciting and includes a character’s First Confession and First Reconciliation — and they are pretty inspiring and still relatable. Nice!
But besides some elevated passages, the artwork, character development and writing quality are often not much better than that of the Rainbow Fairy Magic or Magic Treehouse series. Phrasing could be problematic… one of my teens took a peek and was really bothered by the dragon’s “sardonic muscles." I was most bothered that the main character’s father died a sudden, tragic death three weeks before the book starts, but this has almost no effect on the character’s life (besides moving him to another country). I also didn’t like the embedded QR codes.
As I said, we got around many of the problems by reading aloud. I haven’t read a book aloud to my 9-year-old daughter in years—she is usually reading fantasy books hundreds of pages long on her own—and we both enjoyed spending time together with this book and plan to continue with the rest of the series.
March 16, 2025
This book is tiny. I read it in a day. It's also so good. It's a great way to teach children about the sin of pride and how to overcome it.
Dragon Slayer Maxim for Kenodox, the Red Dragon of Pride: "Try your best, let God's grace do the rest."
BATTLE CRY FOR KENODOX
Beware of the dragon all dressed in red.
His pride and arrogance can make a soul dead.
He prowls like a lion all through the night,
But he's really a coward, afraid of the light.
He is crushed by the woman, the one full of grace,
She brought forth the Savior of the whole human race.
Her weapon is modest, I hope you can see,
You must master it too, it's humility.
There's armor that leads to life's true elevation,
A protection from pride, the helmet of salvation.
Dragon Slayer Maxim for Kenodox, the Red Dragon of Pride: "Try your best, let God's grace do the rest."
BATTLE CRY FOR KENODOX
Beware of the dragon all dressed in red.
His pride and arrogance can make a soul dead.
He prowls like a lion all through the night,
But he's really a coward, afraid of the light.
He is crushed by the woman, the one full of grace,
She brought forth the Savior of the whole human race.
Her weapon is modest, I hope you can see,
You must master it too, it's humility.
There's armor that leads to life's true elevation,
A protection from pride, the helmet of salvation.
October 23, 2025
My boys (8, 6, & 4) enjoyed listening to this read aloud. It was a super quick read with simple concepts to follow. It left a bit of room for parents to discuss the topic outside of the book. I appreciated the Catholic approach of vices and virtues.
March 30, 2026
Great lessons about virtue, sacraments, and the battle against evil told in an enjoyable story format.
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