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▧The Ice Dragon is a children"s novel by George R. R. Martin, first published in 1980 as a
short story for adults in the anthology Dragons of Light. The story was reworked to make it more suitable for children and published as a children"s book in October 2007, with detailed pencil drawings by Yvonne Gilbert. It was published again in 2014, with painted illustrations by Luis Royo.The original short story can be found in Martin"s Dreamsongs anthology.

▧The book has eight short chapters, and is written in a poetic style. While several publishers say The Ice Dragon is set in the same world as A Song of Ice and Fire,the story does not
match the known history of ASOIAF, and Martin has refuted a connection on his Not a Blog.


●Synopsis○
▧Adara was born in a long winter with the worst freezing cold anyone could remember. Her mother died giving birth to her. Adara loves the winter and feels attracted to the cold, preferring to play with snow and ice and ice lizards. She is apparently emotionless, and her skin is always cold to the touch. She feels that an ice dragon has always been in her life. When she was four, she touched an ice dragon for the first time, and she rode upon its broad, chilled back for the first time in her fifth year. The people of her town fear the ice dragon, said to be an untameable creature of legend. When it flies overhead, it leaves a desolate cold and frozen land. Adara is not afraid of the ice dragon, for she is a winter child.



◢生活在苛薄寡恩、群妖滿佈的鬼之島，物價瘋漲、食無食安、居所危佞、暴厲橫行！整日提心吊膽的我們，究竟還剩多少童貞之心？或許在閱讀著《冰與火之歌》，想讓我們逃離現狀、飛往精靈奇幻之境！不過，倘若坂上的囝仔還留有些許童年的空想，不妨來閱讀髥鬍阿伯George R. R. Martin為兒童所寫的這本奇幻小說：《The Ice Dragon》。題材由原本在八○年代所寫的《曙光之龍》成人小說改寫成適合兒童閱讀的版本。在2007年十月出版，並由Yvonne Gilbert用鉛筆繪製內頁插畫。此外，在2014年再版的時候由 Luis Royo重新繪製內頁情節插圖。其中本書許多短篇故事構想出亦自於鬍子胖大叔馬丁的《夢之歌》選集。因此，坂上對繪本童書有興趣的囝仔，不妨將本書載下來、細細閱讀一番唄！◣