![]() However I have only read the two original trilogies and Dragonsdawn. I don't restrict my daughter's reading very much, but I do usually try to at least keep her in the kids/YA section.ġ) Which of the Pern books would you consider "ok" for a younger reader? Would the Dolphins of Pern work? It's literally decades since I read any Pern books and my fuzzy memory suggested Dragonsong and Dragonsinger were likely okay but none of the others. Early in McCaffrey’s forty-six-year career as a writer, she became the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction and the first to win a Nebula Award. Reading-level or vocabulary are not going to be an issue, but I am concerned about the content - adult relationships/dragon fights/etc. Anne Inez McCaffrey (19262011) was an American-born Irish writer, best known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series. ![]() She then promptly asked if she could buy Acorna instead. The American Library Association in 1999 cited the two early Pern trilogies (Dragonriders and Harper Hall), along with The Ship Who Sang, when McCaffrey received the annual Margaret A. Dragonsinger was first published by Atheneum in February 1977. I talked her out of it, because it was not one I've read and I know McCaffrey did not, by and large, write for a younger audience. Dragonsinger is the second book of the Harper Hall Trilogy in the Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey. ![]() My 8-year-old daughter recently found The Dolphins of Pern at a bookstore and wanted to get it because it was about dragons *and* dolphins. ![]()
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