Dragon Dreams


 Contents
 
 Cover
 Title Page
 Chapter 1: Find that Dragon
 Chapter 2: A Special Treasure
 Chapter 3: The Great Florentino
 Chapter 4: Dragon Dreams
 Chapter 5: Danger!
 Chapter 6: Simon the ‘Over’-Protector
 Chapter 7: Coral Reef Rescue
 Chapter 8: Find that Dragon… Again
 Chapter 9: ‘Pop!’ Goes the Bubble
 Chapter 10: A Sweet Future
 Simon’s Story
 ‘Seas the Day!’ Teaser
 About the Author and Illustrator
 Copyright
 
 
 
 Guide
 
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 Start of Content
 Title Page
 About the Author and Illustrator
 Copyright
 
 
 
 
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 The Not-So-Tiny Tales of Simon Seahorse
 Dragon Dreams
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 This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
 
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 First Little Simon hardcover edition March 2023
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 Jacket illustrations by Liam Darcy
 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
 Names: Reef, Cora, author. | McDonald, Jake, illustrator. Title: Dragon dreams / by Cora Reef ; illustrated by Jake McDonald. Description: First Little Simon paperback edition. | New York : Little Simon, 2023. | Series: The not-so-tiny tales of Simon Seahorse ; 7 | Audience: Ages 5-9. | Audience: Grades K-1. | Summary: Simon visits a fortune-telling sea dragon who gives him an alarming but incomplete prediction that his friend Olive the octopus is in danger. Identifiers: LCCN 2022014714 (print) | LCCN 2022014715 (ebook) | ISBN 9781665929646 (paperback) | ISBN 9781665929653 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781665929660 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Sea horses—Juvenile fiction. | Seadragons—Juvenile fiction. | Octopuses—Juvenile fiction. | Fortune-telling—Juvenile fiction. | CYAC: Sea horses—Fiction. | Seadragons—Fiction. | Octopuses—Fiction. | Fortune telling—Fiction. | LCGFT: Picture books. Classification: LCC PZ7.1.R4423 Dr 2023 (print) | LCC PZ7.1.R4423 (ebook) | DDC 813.6 [Fic]—dc23/eng/20220808
 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022014714
 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022014715
 
 
 
 
 1 Find that Dragon
 “Olive, look what I found!” Simon Seahorse called over a driftwood bookshelf in the school library. “It’s a story about sea monsters!”
 His best friend, Olive Octopus, smiled. “I found some good ones too,” she said. Her arms were loaded up with books. “Let’s go check these out.”
 
 Simon curled his fin around the sea monster book and started to swim after Olive. But just then he heard whispering, and he was pretty sure the words “sea dragon” were mentioned.
 “Psst, Olive!” Simon whispered, waving her over with his other fin. “Down here!”
 They swam to the end of the fiction aisle. There, they spied their classmates DeeDee and Lionel having a hushed conversation.
 
 
 “I heard the sea dragon can see the future!” DeeDee was saying. “But only if you’re lucky enough to find him.”
 Simon couldn’t wait a moment longer. He needed to know more! He burst out from behind the bookshelf and cried, “Sea dragon? Who? Where?”
 “Ahh!” DeeDee shrieked in surprise, almost falling out of her seat.
 Olive hurried over. “Shh! We’re in the library, remember?”
 “Oops, sorry.” Simon lowered his voice. “Can you tell us more about this sea dragon, DeeDee?”
 
 DeeDee settled back into her sponge armchair. “Well,” she said, “I’ve heard he’s been spotted all over Coral Grove. But he’s hard to find.”
 “Why is that?” asked Olive.
 “Aren’t sea dragons good at camouflaging themselves?” Lionel broke in.
 DeeDee nodded. “Yes. And if you do find this sea dragon, you have to bring him a special treasure in exchange for getting your fortune told.”
 “How do you know all this?” Olive asked. Simon could tell by the tone of her voice that she didn’t quite believe DeeDee’s story.
 
 “My cousin got her fortune told recently,” DeeDee said. “The sea dragon predicted that she would score the most goals in her next bubble ball match—and the prediction came true!”
 Simon gasped. It sounded like this sea dragon really could see the future!
 
 
 At that moment, Nix appeared at the end of the aisle. She was balancing a stack of books on the end of her eel tail. “DeeDee! Lionel!” she called. “Are you ready to check out?”
 “Coming!” DeeDee called back. Then she and Lionel gathered up their books, said goodbye to Simon and Olive, and swam away.
 
 Simon waved to his friends, but his mind was far off. If there really was a fortune-telling sea