Readable story in which a child buys a dragon egg and hatches it, with attending difficulties. Young Jeremy, however, seems too good to be true to me, could never really quite connect with him. He's doing all the right things, but I still want to poke at him with a stick. And I feel churlish saying this about a kids' book, but the feel-good ending sort of took away from the story for me. But I get it, Jeremy made a series of good decisions and was rewarded for it, so fairness restores the universe.

There's also times, sad to say, that the prose is not that great. The one example that really stuck out was referring to Jeremy's feelings of anxiety/excitement: "Ignoring the crescendo of his stomach symphony..." Yeah.