My Father's Dragon is a 1948 children’s novel by Ruth Stiles Gannett. The illustrations are by her stepmother Ruth Chrisman Gannett and hand-drawn in black and white with a grease crayon on grained paper.
The novel is about a young boy Elmer, who runs away to Wild Island to rescue a baby dragon.
He encounters many frightening sights, but his quick thinking and ingenuity prove no match for anyone standing in his way.