Reluctant Dragon

In a world where dragons are supposed to breathe fire and knights are supposed to slay them, one dragon has simply never gotten the memo. He prefers poetry to pillaging, philosophical discussions to destruction. When the Boy discovers this gentle creature living in a cave above town, an unlikely friendship forms over books, conversation, and rather elaborate banquets. But trouble arrives in the form of Sir Hubert, a knight eager for glory, who sees the dragon not as a neighbor but as a monster to be conquered. What follows is a witty subversion of every dragon-slaying tale you've ever heard, where the real heroism lies not in violence but in finding another way. Grahame wrote this as a quiet protest against jingoism and violence, preferring wit over warfare. It's a book for anyone who's ever felt like the wrong shape for the role they were assigned.