Ruth Stiles Gannett

Ruth Stiles Gannett was an American children's writer. Her first book, My Father's Dragon, tells of a boy named Elmer Elevator who rescues a baby dragon from an island of wild animals. It was illustrated by her stepmother, Ruth Chrisman Gannett, and received a Newbery Honor. She followed it with two sequels, Elmer and the Dragon and The Dragons of Blueland, which are often read together as a trilogy.