There's No Such Thing as a Dragon

Jack Kent. Golden Books, $9.95 (40pp) ISBN 978-0-307-10214-0

There's No Such Thing as a Dragon (1975) by Jack Kent, part of the Family Storytime series, relates the charming tale of Billy Bixbee, who awakens to find a dragon ""about the size of a kitten"" sitting on his bed. The dragon grows by leaps and bounds, until Billy dares to pet the attention-seeking creature and it shrinks back down into an adoring little lap dragon. ( Oct.)

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