On my way to The Legend of Hooper's Dragons
Shortly after I began writing the first book of Hooper’s Dragons, I discovered an uncomfortable aspect of my project. I really didn’t know much about dragons. Not a good thing if you're going to write a book about dragons. I took stock of what I knew: Smaug from the Hobbit, Elliot in Walt Disney’s Pete’s Dragon (the original, not the latest movie), Mushu of Walt Disney’s Mulan, Toothless in How to Train Your Dragon, Draco in Dragon Heart, and of course, Komodo dragons. You kn