Magic turns up in the most unexpected places in E. Nesbit's madcap fairy tales--and so do dragons: One flies out of the pages of an enchanted book and eats an entire soccer team.... Two children try to wake St. George when a plague of dragons descends on modern England.... Wicked Prince Tiresome sets forth to hunt a fiery dragon with a pack of trained hippopotamuses....

Contents:

• The Book of Beasts
• Uncle James, Or, The Purple Stranger
• The Deliverers of Their Country
• The Ice Dragon, or, Do As You Are Told
• The Island of the Nine Whirlpools
• The Dragon Tamers
• The Fiery Dragon, Or, The Heart of Stone and the Heart of Gold
• Kind Little Edmund, or, The Caves and the Cockatrice.