DRAGONESE DAY.

So unless the 6th of October is important to you personally, perhaps you celebrate your birthday or maybes its your wedding anniversary, its probably not a day you have circled on your calendar.

Well it should be!!!!!!

For not only is the 6th of October National Poetry Day this October the sixth sees the launch of

Drum roll please ........

Yes, today author CRESSIDA COWELL is launching Dragonese Day, a great way to inspire children about Vikings, dragons and other languages and cultures.

Visit WWW.HOWTOTRAINYOURDRAGONBOOKS.COM to download exciting activities, watch the special Dragonese Day video, contribute to the online gallery and even learn to speak Dragonese ...... here, courtesy of Red House book catalogue, are a few to get you started.

• PIDDLY .................. a little.
• JOOSQUEEZE-PROTECTOR .... armour.
• OKEY DOKEY .............. alright.
• ZUZZPOT ................. bedroom.
• SNIK-SNAK ............... biscuit.
• SLAMMER ................. door.
• MOO-POOS BLOCK .......... cheese.
• QUICKSMART .............. clever.
• DO DI CHUCKLI HA-HAS .... laugh.
• STRIDERS ................ legs.
• FICKLE-SCRATCH .......... pen.
• YUM-YUM ON DI BUM ....... bite someone on the bottom.

And now for my own tribute to Dragonese Day ...........



A song I always cried at as a child and, I confess, still do - I mean to say how can the following words fail to bring a tear to the eye?

A dragon lives forever but not so little boys

Painted wings and giant rings make way for other toys.

One grey night it happened, Jackie paper came no more

And puff that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar.

His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain,

Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane.

Without his life-long friend, puff could not be brave,

So puff that mighty dragon sadly slipped into his cave. oh!

(Click HERE for all verses).