Puff The Magic Dragon Story Book

This book is based off the old song known by most puff the magic dragon.

Puff the magic dragon story book. I e it is the song puff the magic dragon put into words in a picture book. This does what it says on the tin. Written in the spring of 1959 by a young university student by the name of leonard lipton. Because it is a paperback and not a hard cover the cd has caused an imprint in the cover making it look a bit tacky.

Lipton wrote a poem about a dragon in 1959 and when yarrow found it he wrote the lyrics to puff based on the poem. Puff the magic dragon lived by the sea and frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called honali note on the last few pages the book version shows jackie paper returning to watch as an adult while his young daughter approaches puff to start the cycle anew. Eric puybaret graduated from the école nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in paris. Puff the magic dragon or just puff is a song written by peter yarrow of peter paul and mary from a poem by leonard lipton.

Puff the magic dragon is not the original from years ago. Who wrote puff the magic dragon. It is sung by people who are a great deal older with very gentle voices. No comments on the book.

In this book however it seems that jackie papers daughter comes to take jackie s place as the dragons best friend. Puff the magic dragon was his first book and he has since gone on to illustrate several others including the nutcracker for sterling and a picture book edition of somewhere over the rainbow with a musical interpretation by judy collins. Cannot hand on a memory to our granddaughter. They do everything together until jackie paper grows up and puff the dragon.

The song we know and love began its life as a poem. Eric puybaret was born in france and graduated from the ecole nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in paris. It was made popular by yarrow s group in a 1962 recording released in january 1963. Story read by inés zapiola all materials and writings are my own except as credited or referenced.

Leonard was attending cornell university in central new york near the picturesque finger lakes region. The cd is not vibrant as advertised which is what the original song was.