A Gift of Dragons

Illustrated by Tom Kidd. This is a collection of four short stories: * "The Smallest Dragonboy" (1973) * "The Girl Who Heard Dragons" (1994) * "The Runner of Pern" (1999) * "Ever the Twain" (2002) A dragon-hatching at Ista Weyr provides twin brother and sister Neru and Nian with their first crisis of love and duty in "Ever the Twain," original to this illustrated collection of four Pern stories by McCaffrey. Also included are "The Smallest Dragonboy," about a young boy's fervent desire to bond with a baby dragon; the author's classic "The Girl Who Heard Dragons," the story of a girl with an unusual talent; and "Runner of Pern," a tale involving one of Pern's most important and least glamorous occupations.