Pirate ships would lower their flags when Puff roared out his name.Ī dragon lives forever but not so little boys Noble kings and princes would bow whene’er they came, Jackie kept a lookout perched on Puff’s gigantic tail, Together they would travel on a boat with billowed sail Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal Puff,Īnd brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff. So cute! Whenever I see the book (or the little girl named Sophie), I think, “You can NEVER have enough ‘Puff!'”Īnd frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee G (as my married name is Gleichenhaus!), “you can never have enough ‘Puff!'” A very cute and spunky girl in the class asked, “Aren’t you going to sing ‘Puff?'” I said, “Well, I thought maybe after so many weeks that you’d had enough of ‘Puff’ for a while.” She said, “Mrs. One week I had discovered a few new books to try out, so “Puff” did not make the trip to the school. It was always a favorite and it was one of the few that I knew by heart without having to make an effort to learn it.Īt the time, I was singing every week in my son’s first grade class. When I first started singing books to kids, “Puff the Magic Dragon” was ALWAYS on the list. Words and Music by Peter Yarrow and Lenny Lipton When my children were very young, it was a natural thing for me to sing book that were made from songs, but the idea of “Singable Picture Books” as a special genre worth exploring did not occur to me until this book magically presented itself a couple of years ago,