Saturday, July 26, 2014

The Lollypop Dragon

When I was in elementary school, I remember our teacher showing us filmstrips , which would tell stories of the Lollypop Dragon. Back then, the film strips were shown one frame at a time, while the tape recorder would play the narrative story, and a beep would play to indicate it was time to advance to the next frame. I don't really remember all of the Lollypop dragon stories, but I came across a children's book  called "Happy Times of the Lollypop Dragon." It was sold for about 69 cents with $4.00 for shipping and handling. I suddenly got nostalgic and decided to order the book. The story is about the Lollypop dragon, whom goes to a town called Tum Tum, and is in search of happiness and good times. When he arrives, he sees the children of the town helping out by cleaning up the garbage in the streets, helping other children whom are deaf, buy using sign language to tell a story, helping other kids to learn to read, and even a little girl was cleaning up her messy room. Wow, the Lollypop dragon has observed a lot, and found out from the children that what  they do is work, but it makes them happy, as it helps themselves and helps others in time of their need.  So The Lollypop dragon begins to learn on what makes a person happy, by helping out the children with the jobs they have to, and even he began to feel happy himself. So its a great book, and brought about memories, as I remember once having this same book when I was 10  years old. I tend to get nostalgic for various things of my youth.