A hated bully of a teacher who happens to be the teacher of Art, his favourite subject the awkwardness of the first stirrings of boy/girl attraction the difficulty of maintaining a best friend relationship when that best friend begins to look at the world differently. As with the Luster stories, Coville paints in the back story although inevitably with only a 150 pages in which to do this, it is curtailed somewhat.Ĭoville has, running alongside the developing relationship, other storylines which would be of significance to the readers for whom the book was actually written. The telepathic communication and the development of this skill between the two is clever and, strange to say, totally believable and the personality of the dragon becomes clearer and clearer and more and more real. The developing relationship between Jeremy, the boy, and Tiamat, the dragon, is really endearing and full of great imaginative strands and creations.

In this shop he is 'chosen' by a dragon's egg and becomes its Hatcher, the person responsible for the safe arrival and then nurturing of the infant dragon. (It is only the girl who wants the snog, you understand).

The story is of a young man who stumbles upon a magic shop whilst fleeing two bullies and a girl of 11 who is desperate to kiss him. The man is absolutely brilliant and I only wish I had been born in 1993 instead of '63 and then I would not have to justify my intending to devour everything he has written as 'research' for my studies in children's literature and faith. Having read the four books in his Unicorn Chronicles of Luster last year and thoroughly enjoyed them I spotted this book on a stall in a Church Christmas Fayre and picked it up for ten pence.

Jeremy thatcher dragon hatcher book