About the Book

Book: Drandar the Dragon Knight

Author: Terrie Hellard-Brown

Illustrator: Rachelle Brown

Genre: Chapter book for Middle Grade Readers

Release Date: February 12, 2025

Drandar is the dragon that has been prophesied. He will help the king build a strong, safe kingdom as one of his faithful knights. But Drandar doesn’t seem to fit what a knight should be or even what a real dragon should look like. He’s what Seraphina calls a “late bloomer.” Drandar is droopy, discouraged, and doubting. Will he ever become the knight he’s supposed to be?

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About the Author

Empowering families to disciple the next generation every day and everywhere is Terrie Hellard-Brown’s mission. Sparking Everyday Discipleship, the podcast hosted by Terrie Hellard-Brown focuses on discipleship in the 21st Century, great books, and sparking important conversations with our children. Terrie is a writer, speaker, missionary, and mom with a BA in sociology and psychology, an MA in education, and is currently working on her DMin.

Her books include:

• Up, Down, and All Around: A Handbook for Discipling Our Children Based on Deuteronomy 6
• Building Character Through Picture Books: 25 Family Devotions Based on Favorite Picture Books
• A World of Pancakes (a picture book on flexibility and culture and including recipes from around the world)
• Izzy’s Notebook (a picture book about forgiveness, Harper and Izzy, Best Friends Forever Series: Living the One Anothers)
• Drandar the Dragon Knight (chapter book about being who God created us to be).

Terrie creates jewelry, bookmarks, and mini books (décor) with biblical and literature themes.

Her writing has appeared in Starlight Magazine, Upper Room, and Inspire Christian Writers Anthologies and blog.

Blog Stops

Debbie’s Dusty Deliberations, September 12

Simple Harvest Reads, September 13 (Author Interview)

Texas Book-aholic, September 13

Happily Managing a Household of Boys, September 14

For Him and My Family, September 15

Library Lady’s Kid Lit, September 16

Fiction Book Lover, September 17 (Author Interview)

Artistic Nobody, September 18

Stories By Gina, September 19 (Author Interview)

Jodie Wolfe – Stories Where Hope and Quirky Meet, September 20 (Author Interview)

A Reader’s Brain , September 21 (Author Interview)

Guild Master, September 22

A Modern Day Fairy Tale, September 23 (Author Interview)

Vicky Sluiter, September 24 (Author Interview)

Mary Hake, September 24

For the Love of Literature, September 25 (Author Interview)

Giveaway

To celebrate her tour, Terrie is giving away the grand prize of a $50 Amazon Gift Card, signed copy of the book and Bible study that accompanies the book, three stickers, a dragon velvet bookmark, and an armor of God necklace!!

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Interview

If you could give advice to a newbie writer, what would it be?

Read, write, and pray. Read as much as you can to learn what makes a story great and how it flows. Write daily if possible. It’s like exercising a muscle. Keep it active and strong even if you write really bad stories along the way. Keep writing. Pray for God to inspire your heart and to help you know his plan. Sometimes God calls us to write for different reasons. Not all writers fit in the same box.

Do you use humor at all in your writing?

I do use humor in most of my writing. However, I also write devotional and Bible study materials for adults and don’t use as much humor in those. I find life funny, and I see the irony in so many things. I love to include that in my books.

Give us an insight into your faith in the Lord.

I became a Christian when I was seven years old. Jesus changed my life in a very real way even then, and I think that is why I feel so passionate about writing for parents and children. God uses any life surrendered to him. We don’t have to wait until we’re adults to serve the Lord, minister, and bless others. God is so good, and he has so many wonderful opportunities for us to bless others and to tell them about his salvation. Children can begin making a difference even while they are little.

Is your book part of a series?

Yes. The second Drandar story should be out next year. I also have a Bible study for kids that goes along with Drandar the Dragon Knight. It’s called Discovering the Knight’s Code.

When you aren’t writing, what do you enjoy doing?