There’s no holding those naughty dragons back. Graun and Fafnine, together with their human friends, Ava and Jack, are off today on their fourth adventure, Naughty Dragons Camp Out! This time they’re heading to a school camp with a difference—in the crater of a volcano in the wild high country of the Laidley Hundreds, where they will study dragon lore and history, and learn to live a little like the wild dragons of old. But in between games, feasts, treasure hunts and story telling, the naughty dragons uncover evidence of a terrible plot, going on right under their teachers’ noses. A gang of egg poachers is at large in the Laidley Hundreds, and one of the campers is caught up in their scheme to kidnap and sell unborn dragons to the highest bidder.
Up until now, the naughty dragon stories have all been about Graun and Fafnine trying to make sense of the human world. With this new book, I thought it would be fun to turn the tables on Ava and Jack—up in the High Country, it’s Graun and Fafnine who are in their natural element, and the humans have to learn more about what it is like to be a wild dragon. There have also been numerous references in the earlier books to egg poaching, and the illegal sale of dragons as pets, status symbols and fighters, so I always knew that one of the books was going to have to look into that side of the story. Graun and Fafnine have a mysterious past—we don’t know exactly what they did before they joined the Dragons at Home Project and went to live with the Wards; a few hints of this past life are now creeping into the story. With this book, the dragons’ world is growing wider and more dangerous—but the naughty dragons are still as wild, funny and destructive as ever.
Naughty Dragons Camp Out! is now available from bookshops; you can order it from Booktopia here.
