So Charity runs around trying to convince everyone the dragon's nice and should be spared. There's a big battle and a trick ending.

Charity's excited to meet a real, live, fire-breathing dragon. But she discovers she's not evil ? she's kind and likes to write poetry, just like her ? so they have a bond.

She's a farm girl, but doesn't fit in. She doesn't want to work on the farm; she'd rather write poetry and read. She wants to be a knight and fight dragons when she grows up, but she can't because she's a girl.

Hard times' is a phrase the English love to use, when speaking of Africa. And it is easy to forget that Africa's 'hard times' were made harder by them.

It's a question of trying to take down by dictation what's already there. I'm not making something, I'm trying to hear it.

The Jews and the Arabs should settle their dispute in the true spirit of Christian charity.