Firedrake sleeps while the sun is up and the dwarves wait for him to wake up. After Ben and Sorrel argue about turning East too soon or not, the three end up in a mountain range full of dwarves.

He and Sorrel also decide to bring Ben along with them. Only able to fly at night, Firedrake wastes no time wanting to leave. After finding Gilbert and providing payment, Gilbert hands over a map leading to the Himalayas, marking dangerous areas along the way.

The duo meets Ben who provides Sorrel with human clothes so she may go in disguise to find Gilbert while Firedrake stays hidden. After realizing that humans intend to flood the valley and the dragons living there are no longer safe, Firedrake sets off with the guidance from the eldest member of his clan (Slatebeard) to avoid the 'Golden One' and to find the Rim of Heaven, a legendary location that is a safe haven for all dragons.įiredrake travels to the city with his friend Sorrel, a forest brownie with cat features, to find Gilbert Graytail, a rat who specializes in making maps. Plot įiredrake is a young dragon who lives in a hidden valley in Scotland with other dragons. Ī sequel, Dragon Rider: The Griffin's Feather, was published over a decade later, in 2017, and a feature film adaptation of the same name was released in 2020. The novel became a massive success following its English-language release, and remained on The New York Times Best Seller list for 78 weeks, reaching number one on the Children's Best-Seller list. Dragon Rider follows the exploits of a silver dragon named Firedrake, a cat-like brownie named Sorrel, and Ben, an orphaned human boy, in their search for the mythical part of the Himalayas mountain range called the Rim of Heaven to find a safe place for Firedrake's kin to live when the dragon finds out that humans intend to flood the valley where he and his fellow dragons live. in the US, using a translation by Anthea Bell. Originally translated by Oliver Latsch, Dragon Rider was published in English in 2004 by The Chicken House in the United Kingdom and Scholastic Inc. Dragon Rider (original title: Drachenreiter) is a 1997 German children's novel by Cornelia Funke.

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