Reading order
My Father's Dragon trilogy reading order
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- Score
- 3 volumes
- Volumes
- 1948–1951
- Published
- about 5 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
- Fantasy
- Genre
Quick answer
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Publication order
3 volumes1948–1951Completed
- Ruth Stiles Gannett’s short, funny chapter books from the late 1940s, illustrated by her stepmother Ruth Chrisman Gannett: in My Father’s Dragon, a Newbery Honor book, young Elmer Elevator stows away to Wild Island with a knapsack of chewing gum, lollipops and a comb to rescue a baby dragon kept captive by the animals, and outwits each one in turn.
- Perfect for reading aloud to young children.
- The two sequels continue Elmer and the dragon’s adventures.
- Read in order.
A plan for the whole series
3 volumes, 246 pages, about 5 hours. At 45 min a day that is 6 days.
Stages
This series fits in one stage. You finish around November 4, 2026.
- Stage 15 h6 daysby November 4, 2026
- The end of the series
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How this plan is calculated
The plan comes from the pages and ratings of each volume: we split the series into stages of about three weeks’ reading, size each break to the stage before it, and read the chance of finishing from how many readers rate the last volume compared with the first. How we work out the plan →
Every volume in order
Order checked by hand · Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 29, 2026
Frequently asked questions
Which My Father's Dragon trilogy book is the longest?
“Elmer and the Dragon” is the longest at 87 pages; the shortest is “The Dragons of Blueland” with 79 pages.