Dragon Rider (original title: Drachenreiter) is a 1997 German children's novel by Cornelia Funke. Originally translated by Oliver Latsch, "Dragon Rider" was published in English in 2004 by The Chicken House in the UK and Scholastic Inc. in the US, using a translation by Anthea Bell. "Dragon Rider" follows the exploits of a silver dragon named Firedrake, a brownie named Sorrel, and Ben, a human boy, in their search for the mythical part of the Himalayas mountain range called the Rim of Heaven to find a safe place for Firedrake's kin to live when the dragon finds out that humans intend to flood the valley where he and his fellow dragons live.