When a storm blows a family of tiny dragons far from their forest home, they are cast into the human world in a way they never expected.
When a storm blows a family of tiny dragons far from their forest home, they are cast into the human world in a way they never expected. In the tiny hands of young human children, Valon, Shanai, Ulick and Aisha learn that there may be more to life than flight, food and rest.
Flying through the air in flashes of blue, red, bronze and green, the dragons bring colour to the lives of their human protectors. But when the children learn that adult life can make them blind to the fantastical world at their fingertips, Valon must find a way to help them and their parents see.
In this new fantasy series by debut author Gill Summerville, anything can be solved when people and dragons come together. Stray dogs, a depleting insect population and bullies of all sizes threaten them, but as one, they might just be able to create a new, welcoming world.
Can Valon convince the other dragons to leave their green sanctuary for the bright lights of the human world? And can these two communities truly live side by side?
Young Adult, Dragons, Adventure, Environmental, Childlike Wonder, Curiosity
About The Author
Born in Brisbane, Queensland, Gill Summerville’s love for books began when he was just four. It hasn’t stopped since.
Gill conceived the idea for his first book in the 1970s. Fifty years later, he is publishing his first young-adult fantasy series, Dragonhome. Book One, released in 2026, is Valon’s Adventure. Through a dragon family’s relationship with the human world, Gill touches on themes of environmental conservation, the loss of childhood wonder, relationships, othering, bullying, belonging and respect.
While broadening his mind through reading, Gill also travelled the world. He has fished for piranha in the Amazon and swam with sharks and crocodiles in Australia, attended Broadway shows, and visited ancient cultural monuments such as Machu Picchu, Easter Island and Stonehenge.
Never one to limit himself, Gill has worked in the retail sector, owned a flower farm for twenty years and studied yoga for a decade, becoming an ordained swami. He has appeared in approximately forty stage musicals as an actor, singer and support cast. In 2014, Gill co-wrote and released an album which reached the finals at the Tamworth National Country Songwriting Contest.
Gill is a family man who has three very close daughters and a beautiful wife who is living with Parkinson’s Disease. Gill is her primary carer.
