By cristina santiestevan
The Girl Who Hatched a Dragon
Wren and Duck: Book 1
Wren has always believed in the possibility of magic. But she has never seen it before. Until the day she finds a mysterious egg in the forest.
When a dragon hatches, Wren is thrilled, but also worried. What if it flies away? How will she hide it from her mom? What will she feed it?
Join Wren and her friends, Maria and Enrique, on a wild adventure as they learn about magic, friendship, and dragons!
Children’s Author
Cristina Santiestevan
Hi there! I’m Cristina. When I was a kid, there was nothing I liked more than a long wander through the woods. I would look for animal footprints, listen for birds, and hold my breath and wait for what felt like forever (but was probably really only five minutes or so) in hopes a deer or fox or bobcat would wander past my hiding spot. And always, I hoped to find something magical. Something fantastical. Something impossible. Something like a hobbit or a pixie or a little green dragon.
I never did find a hobbit or a pixie, but it turns out the woods (and all of nature) are packed full with magic. Finding the very first of the spring ephemerals blooming beside a towering oak? Magic. Coming face to face with a bright-eyed box turtle on a warm summer day? Magic. Hearing (and then seeing) a weasel scurry through dry fall leaves before disappearing beneath a lichen-covered boulder? Definitely magic.
My hope is that Wren and Duck and their many real and magical friends will help children (and their reading-aloud grownups) discover and fall in love with the very real magic of the natural world. From sweeping forests to a single flowerpot on a sunny window sill, there is big and small and beautiful and bold magic in all of nature. All it takes is the willingness to see it.
