Dragon Rider (novel)
Dragon Rider (original title: Drachenreiter) is a 1997 German children's novel by Cornelia Funke. Originally translated by Oliver Latsch, Dragon Rider was published in English in 2004 by The Chicken House in the United Kingdom and Scholastic Inc. in the US, using a translation by Anthea Bell. Dragon Rider follows the exploits of a silver dragon named Firedrake, a cat-like brownie named Sorrel, and Ben, an orphaned human boy, in their search for the mythical part of the Himalayas mountain range called the Rim of Heaven to find a safe place for Firedrake's kin to live when the dragon finds out that humans intend to flood the valley where he and his fellow dragons live.
Scholastic's American cover for Dragon Rider | |
| Author | Cornelia Funke |
|---|---|
| Original title | Drachenreiter |
| Translator | Oliver Latsch (2000), Anthea Bell (2004) |
| Cover artist | Don Seegmiller |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
| Genre | Children's, Fantasy, High Fantasy |
| Publisher | Dressler |
Publication date | 1997 |
Published in English | September 2000 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 523 |
| ISBN | 3-7915-0454-1 |
| OCLC | 38090719 |
| Followed by | Dragon Rider: The Griffin's Feather |
The novel became a massive success following its English-language release, and remained on The New York Times Best Seller list for 78 weeks, reaching number one on the Children's Best-Seller list.
A sequel, Dragon Rider: The Griffin's Feather, was published over a decade later, in 2017, and a feature film adaptation of the same name was released in 2020.