The Adventures of Lazy Dragon

by Meera Uberoi, Meera Uberoi

In this book you will meet the hero thief Lazy Dragon; an old gardener who loved flowers more than his life; magic wish-granting fish bones; a sea princess lured by the call of a flute and a crafty fox who fooled a hungry tiger, and many other wonderful characters. These tales from ancient China are told by Meera Uberoi, one of India’s foremost children’s authors, with her usual humour and style.

110 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 30, 2006

Reviews

[Sumit · Rating 4 out of 5]

I bought this book when I was in school. Brother found it recently. It brought back so many memories of my old self and how during that scholastic meeting I was so fascinated with this book. Looking back I think I bought this because I thought every student has to buy one (shakes head) and this was the shortest and probably the cheapest. This might be the first fiction book I bought, I'm quite confident actually. Foreshadowing? Nah - just coincidence.

I vaguely remember telling dad that everyone needs to buy a book from the scholastic program and he was not believing me - He stand corrected. Still gave me money (miss you dad) and I remember giving it to my teacher back then in Orion and receiving this book in a paperbag kinda parcel, after a few days.

I remember reading it and struggling with the Asian names and I think it kinda scared me back then and even gave me a headache. I probably thought I will never buy such stupid books again. Oh man I was wrong. It still has some pencil underlines that I did. I miss those days. The pencil days. The days when my dad use to buy me a sharper everyday. It sucks without him.

The book is alright. Stories are great if you are a child, especially the lazy dragon ones, I can see myself enjoying those as a kid. The main thing this book did is bring me back into reading. I had a lethargic year reading wise, completely fucked up my target of ten books. Hopefully this year will be better. Short and sweet. And I need to more.