Baby Dragon, Baby Dragon had great potential for becoming a great a bedtime story, but it fell short at the last minute. It was a treat to watch Baby Dragon play with his friend throughout the castle and 
the village, but then it is time for rest, which would have been the perfect ending. But Melissa Marr decides to let Baby Dragon wake and start again. The pacing of the book makes this rest only the time of a cat-nap and not the falling asleep for the night, and with that, the promise of waking tomorrow to continue the adventures of the previous day.
Yet, the active child will get a kick out of the bright reds and blues and yellows and greens that pepper the pages. The illustrations of Lena Podesta are filled with the action of a toddler running, playing, learning manners, eating and being a typical kid. The swooping and flying and the gobbling of food is what toddlers do best. And Podesta captures that in simply detailed, but full illustrations. There is a lot going on, even to distraction, but there is always something to see, therefore each read will be a new time.
Melissa Marr is perhaps more known for her middle and young adult novels. And I recently learned she is also Ronnie Douglas of the Southern Wolves motorcycle club series (and if the covers are anything, adults make sure the kids are tucked into bed and your partner is in the mood, as you will be after reading!)