Written by: Margaret Mahy.

Illustrated by: Jenny Williams.

What would you do if you knew there was a lion in the meadow, but your mother wouldn’t believe you and gave you a matchbox with a dragon to scare away the lion… and in fact the dragon was there too? (From GoodReads.)

Note from Auntie Anne: this is a classic from Aotearoa New Zealand, and one of my first library memories.