Chill of the Ice Dragon is the next installment of The Dragon Masters Series. This series is written for a younger audience (1st to 3rd grade) as part of the Branches division of Scholastic. The chapters are short with illustrations on each page. However, you cannot pick up in the middle of the series – each book builds upon the one before. This is a great series for beginning readers.

In this book, the dragon masters work together to help another dragon master from a faraway kingdom to free their dragon, wizard, and kingdom from an ice giant with powerful magic too strong to fight alone. They also reunite with a friend they thought they had lost.

At the end of the book there is a Question and Activity page that assists with reading comprehension and further discussion of the characters/events of the book.

There are strong boy and girl leads in this book and I highly recommend this series to any young reader interested in fantasy.

Content Analysis:

Profanity/Language:  None

Violence/Gore:  Report of an attack on the castle; a few occurrences of fantasy violence, including: dragon shooting green beams zapping another dragon; giant zapped by magic cries out; wizards fighting; flame almost hits a minor; a threat of an attack by a dragon; a minor falls off of a dragon; an adult falls to the floor; a minor is knocked to the floor.

Sex/Nudity:  None

Mature Subject Matter:

Fantasy violence.

Alcohol / Drug Use:

None