I’m looking for a kids book about dragons. I don’t remember much, but it was heavily illustrated with all kinds of different types of dragons. It read more like non-fiction, sort of like a simple encyclopedia of various types of dragons. I remember one dragon, in particular, that looked like a snake. I don’t think it had any sort of plot. It was a hardcover and was laid out in a landscape, rather than portrait manner. I was in 4th and 5th grade when I checked it out of the library about 1000 times. That was around 1985-1986.
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I have a similar book in my memory, I think. The book in my memory had famous dragons from literature/history, including Smaug and St. George’s dragon. I remember the illustrations as being really beautiful. I also feel like there was maybe one entry that described dragons being fed milk, honey, and bread, and they lost their scales and basically turned into cats? Is any of that what you remember? I was born in ’86, but probably didn’t read the book I’m thinking of until the mid-90s.
This book is “the Book of Dragons” by Michael Hague. I remember checking it out at least a hundred times from the library. I can’t help the original query, but the “snake” dragon is probably the Lambton Worm, which was a popular dragon story to anthologize. It isn’t landscape format, but Time Life’s “Enchanted World” series had a dragon volume, and at least to snakelike dragons to my recollection, the Lambton Worm and one of those winged snakes from Herodotus.
I wonder if the librarian at your former school can help you? If it was a popular book in the library, it may be there still, or the librarian might remember the title…