For years, old wood carver Mr. Meacham has delighted local children with his tales of the fierce dragon that resides deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. To his daughter, Grace, who works as a forest ranger, these stories are little more than tall tales... until she meets Pete, a mysterious 10-year-old with no family and no home who claims to live in the woods with a giant, green dragon named Elliott. And from Pete's descriptions, Elliott seems remarkably similar to the dragon from Mr. Meacham's stories. With the help of Natalie, an 11-year-old girl whose father Jack owns the local lumber mill, Grace sets out to determine where Pete came from, where he belongs, and the truth about this dragon.
This movie contains 5 potentially triggering events.
We see the pages of a storybook where an animal, a dog, is sad because he is lost. In the story, we see the dog find his family again. Also, there are several times when the dragon is very sad.
Elliot is briefly captured but is rescued and freed. Later Elliot, Grace and Jack fall down a foggy chasm after a bridge Elliot set on fire collapses but he saves Grace and Jack and flies out, uninjured.
There is a quite horrible car crash right at the start, with fatalities.
Later, a very empty car is obliterated by a large vehicle with damaged brakes.
Technically a third crash when a car falls off a bridge but absolutely no one was hurt in that incident.