Saturday, September 13, 2025

Drandar the Dragon Tour & Giveaway

About the Book

Book: Drandar the Dragon Knight

Author: Terrie Hellard-Brown

Illustrator: Rachelle Brown

Genre: Chapter book for Middle Grade Readers

Release Date: February 12, 2025

Drandar is the dragon that has been prophesied. He will help the king build a strong, safe kingdom as one of his faithful knights. But Drandar doesn’t seem to fit what a knight should be or even what a real dragon should look like. He’s what Seraphina calls a “late bloomer.” Drandar is droopy, discouraged, and doubting. Will he ever become the knight he’s supposed to be?

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About the Author

Empowering families to disciple the next generation every day and everywhere is Terrie Hellard-Brown’s mission. Sparking Everyday Discipleship, the podcast hosted by Terrie Hellard-Brown focuses on discipleship in the 21st Century, great books, and sparking important conversations with our children. Terrie is a writer, speaker, missionary, and mom with a BA in sociology and psychology, an MA in education, and is currently working on her DMin.

Her books include:

Up, Down, and All Around: A Handbook for Discipling Our Children Based on Deuteronomy 6
Building Character Through Picture Books: 25 Family Devotions Based on Favorite Picture Books
A World of Pancakes (a picture book on flexibility and culture and including recipes from around the world)
Izzy’s Notebook (a picture book about forgiveness, Harper and Izzy, Best Friends Forever Series: Living the One Anothers)
Drandar the Dragon Knight (chapter book about being who God created us to be).

Terrie creates jewelry, bookmarks, and mini books (décor) with biblical and literature themes.

Her writing has appeared in Starlight Magazine, Upper Room, and Inspire Christian Writers Anthologies and blog.

MY REVIEW

This book will definitely attract young readers as they follow Drandar the dragon. I like the theme of the story where Drandar starts to doubt himself. As he starts to grow he wants to imitate others because they seem to be more powerful and accepted. Hmm? Can we relate to this ourselves? Of course I know that I have often had thoughts that I was not good enough or didn’t have any abilities.

Drandar faces something that likes to whisper in his ears how he is never going to be good enough. But Drandar has a purpose and must keep focused on what that is. “When we listen to lies and evil thoughts, we can be defeated easily. But when we listen to the truth we find peace and joy.”

This is a good story to teach others that we are here for a purpose. We need to keep our eyes focused on what is good and not be deceived by the enemy. Along with the beautiful illustrations in the book, this story will capture young children’s attention as they learn how important each of them are.

I received a copy of this book from Celebrate Lit. The review is my own opinion.

Blog Stops

Debbie’s Dusty Deliberations, September 12

Simple Harvest Reads, September 13 (Author Interview)

Texas Book-aholic, September 13

Happily Managing a Household of Boys, September 14

For Him and My Family, September 15

Library Lady’s Kid Lit, September 16

Fiction Book Lover, September 17 (Author Interview)

Artistic Nobody, September 18

Stories By Gina, September 19 (Author Interview)

Jodie Wolfe – Stories Where Hope and Quirky Meet, September 20 (Author Interview)

A Reader’s Brain , September 21 (Author Interview)

Guild Master, September 22

A Modern Day Fairy Tale, September 23 (Author Interview)

Vicky Sluiter, September 24 (Author Interview)

Mary Hake, September 24

For the Love of Literature, September 25 (Author Interview)

Giveaway

To celebrate her tour, Terrie is giving away the grand prize of a $50 Amazon Gift Card, signed copy of the book and Bible study that accompanies the book, three stickers, a dragon velvet bookmark, and an armor of God necklace!!