A delightful old-fashioned read, and a worthy sequel to "Green Smoke", though part of the charm of the first book was that Susan could talk to her mother about the dragon and her mother went along with what she believed was her daughter's game. Here everyone can see him (but that's kind of the point now).
Just a quibble: the old pre-decimal amounts have been updated, a bit haphazardly, (fancy Puffin bothering!), to make it more understandable for 1970s kids no doubt. But set in 1959 it should be shillings and pence. Otherwise "A Flat Iron for a Farthing" of 1872 would have to become "A Flat Iron for Something Considerably Less than Half a P". And then, what's a flat iron? etc etc.... But 25p = 5 shillings (or it did in 1971), and 5 shillings in 1959 would have bought you a heck of a lot of icecream. I wonder what the original edition says.

Never fear, R Dragon is here! The sequel to the fabulous Green Smoke takes a rather different format, as R Dragon decides that if Sue can take holidays so can he - so he will come to visit her in St Aubyns. Dropping a dragon into modern (*cough* ish) society can't be done without a few ripples, and he is called on to act in the town pageant and subsequently dragon-napped by entrepreneurs from a rival town (who find they've got rather more on their hands than they bargained for). Thankfully, the friendly removal men who gave him a lift from Cornwall are soon on the case to try and get him back to Sue and his star turn on stage...

I enjoyed just how ill-equipped the dragon is for holidays - he is even less capable of packing light than my mum - and the stern line Sue quickly takes with him to get his luggage down to a reasonable scale. It does, sadly, also allow for the line that Sue is so organised and thoughtful that she'll make a wonderful... explorer's wife. Thankfully, times have changed.

One of the things I liked best about rereading Green Smoke as an adult was the fuzziness surrounding the extent to which Sue's mother actually believed her daughter had befriended a dragon (rather than accommodating an invisible friend with a sweet tooth). In Dragon in Danger there's no question of disbelief - R Dragon is seen and interacts with hordes of adults, not least the redoubtable Mrs Wotherspoon and her hat of artificial roses.

It's all perfectly charming, with a couple of gags for the reading parent (I was particularly fond of The Visitor from Mars Welcomes You), but rather less magical than the original book. Sue and her friends are over-shadowed by the adult cast who drive the plot, and R Dragon has fewer opportunities to shine when not engaged in storytelling (although his duets with William the removal-man are lovely, as is his handling of the villainous Mr Bogg).

Still enjoyable, but not a patch on the first one. I do love the illustrations though. ( )