{"id":7639,"date":"2020-08-14T17:51:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T21:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=7639"},"modified":"2020-12-30T12:35:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T17:35:24","slug":"343q-boy-collects-golden-dragon-scales-to-make-a-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/343q-boy-collects-golden-dragon-scales-to-make-a-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"343Q: Boy Collects Golden Dragon Scales to Make A Dragon (Solved!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here are the details of a book my dad read around 1960 (possibly as late as 1963, but unlikely).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Plot elements<\/strong>: A boy (named maybe Ling or Lo, or a hyphenated name with one of those syllables) goes on a long quest collecting golden dragon scales that in the end fit together like a puzzle and make a dragon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Genre<\/strong>: kids chapter book<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publish date<\/strong>: likely late 40\u2019s early 50\u2019s (my dad\u2019s best guess\u2014it was a library book)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Physical description of book<\/strong>: blue cloth hardcover<\/p>\n<p><strong>Illustrations<\/strong>: he remembers an illustrative motif of cranes, like on chapter headings maybe<\/p>\n<p>Some books he claims it is NOT that I\u2019ve found:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Loot of the Flying Dragon (by Kenneth Payson Kempton)<\/li>\n<li>The Pink Porcelain Pipe (by Pauline Scott)<\/li>\n<li>The Overcoming of the Dragon (by LC Sturgis)<\/li>\n<li>The Last Dragon (by Dan Totheroh)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many thanks for whatever you can do! I\u2019ll at least know I tried my best after gnawing this bone for decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the details of a book my dad read around 1960 (possibly as late as 1963, but unlikely). Plot elements: A boy (named maybe Ling or Lo, or a hyphenated name with one of those syllables) goes on a long quest collecting golden dragon scales that in the end fit together like a puzzle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,26,4,18],"tags":[378],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8059,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639\/revisions\/8059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}