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The Sunflower Sword

The illustrations make this picture book especially appealing as we follow a young boy with a colander on his head who spends his day imaging battles with dragons using the sunflower his mother gave him for a sword.  Imagination takes flight in bright and cheerful illustrations which fill the page with whimsical images.  Suddenly the boy encounters a read dragon who mistakes the sunflower for a gift and gives the boy a ride on his back.  By the end, other knights join our hero.  They each put down their sword, pick up a sunflower gift for a dragon and hop on its back for a ride into the blue sky.