A revised and expanded edition of the 1996 book in which a group of eccentric Victorian scientists describes and catalogs dragons from around the world, describing everything from their natural habitats to their unusual eating habits.
Rhyming verse and color illustrations describe how Grandma shares her house with bandicoots, goannas, and emus, rides kangaroos bareback, and flies off on vacation in the beak of a pelican.
When the special feast that was to be eaten at the elephant's eleventh birthday party is stolen, the reader is invited to guess the identity of the thief.
Two thieves, caught stealing from an Egyptian market, are brought before the Cat Pharaoh, who agrees to pardon them if they bring back a treasure that was stolen from her.