Note: Cataloged as fiction by the Library of Congress even though it's part non-fiction and part art book.

Synopsis: McCaffrey focuses her attention on the fantastical creature's existence throughout history. A modern day dragon fantasy, colored with excerpts of some of the most thrilling scenes taken from classic dragon tales and accompanied by John Howe's magnificent art. Dragons from the time of the Bible and the Babylonians, the Arthurian Era and the Chinese Dynasties, to the current dragons invented by Robin McKinley, Gordon R. Dickson, Melanie Rown, and McCaffrey herself--are all fully explored and rendered in glorious detail.