"Goodbye little Catterpoozie" has Cassie believe her died when in reality, it was going through metamorphosis. Some cultures consider metamorphosis a form of death and rebirth into something else. Fittingly, Poozie's change from a caterpoozle into a fairy was a kind of rebirth from a mere pet into her own creature.
Fridge-Heartwarming: Perhaps it counts as an Accidental Aesop that even when a pet passes on, they don't die so much as they live on in another form, be it in our memories or something else entirely.
"The Talent Pool" offers a sobering but brilliant reason for why the Talent Pool doesn't have friends, and why it had to be Cassie to befriend her. Most dragons only come because they want a talent or to discover what their talent is. They only stick around for so long, but never to ask the Talent Pool about her life or what she wants. Cassie may have also wanted a talent, but she's also a sweet kid, and that allowed her to do what no dragon had ever done before: ask to be her friend.
There are at least a couple of passing references to "Ragnarok" in the series, including "Ragnarok Canyon" and "Ragnarok Cheese." (Though, according to at least one book release, Hand in Hand in Dragon Land, the actual spelling is "Rag-na-Rock.")
Given the premise, that a magical dragon sent scales out into other worlds to find people who could come and visit, it's likely just a loan word.
There's no telling how many children have ended up trapped in Dragon Land where their parents can never find them. The very talented lonely dragon from long long ago, sent out dragon scales to bring children from our world to hers. So desperate for companionship, she didn't include the part of the spell on her scales that sends them home. Emmy and Max were lucky to have met Quetzal who knew how to modify the scale's teleportation spell.
The show was never really specific about whether time is effected in the real world while Max and Emmy are teleporting to Dragon Land and back. While most episodes they return to the playroom and it looks exactly like how they left it, sometimes the kids teleport to Dragon Land just as it's daylight at their house and return to the real world when it's nighttime. It just keeps alternating. Is time affected in the real world affected while kids are in Dragon Land?
It goes beyond that. In one episode, Max and Emmy bring home a video recording from Dragon Land. What's going to happen when their parents find it?
Most likely, they'll take it to the media, and the governments of the world will find a way to go to Dragon Land. At which point, the governments will wrongfully assume the dragons are monsters plotting to invade Earth, eat everyone, and claim it as their own, and nuke the whole place.
Well, that went dark in a hurry. Given the way the dragons look and act, their parents are more likely to think their kids have made friends with a family of costumers and puppeteers.
Or they're going to assume that Emmy and Max staged the whole thing, either alone or with the other kids in their neighborhood, and think nothing more of it. C'mon, they're just kids!
What'll become of the gang when Emmy and Max grow up? Are dragons even aware that human children eventually grow up?
Technically yes they are. Remember that pirate captain they met up with who had buried toys under the schoolhouse? He states the toys were his as a boy and he and Quetzal buried them as children. They're certainly aware that Quetzal is an adult or at least much older than them so they're aware that humans age/grow up.
The fact that the dragons could murder someone and no one would ever know makes you hope that 1. there are not more magic scales and 2. that most dragons are good.
What would happen if one of the kids died in dragonland?
Well, logically, they'd either disappear (if nobody could find them) or turn up dead (assuming someone could return the body to the human world).
Max and Emmy could've gotten stepped on (or unknowingly eaten) by their gigantic dragon friends when they once accidentally shrank down to ant-size by the blooming Shrinking Violets. Cassie understandably panics when she realized what became of them. So Dragon Land is not a safe place if you're inexperienced (and don't study your botany).
If someone flows into the lost forever hole (unlikely but still), then... do they just fall forever, no afterlife, no death?
The episode “Big Funky Cloud” introduces something called the “lost forever hole” that literally deletes anything that falls down it from existence, presumably including living beings. Essentially, it’s the veil from Harry Potter. Sure, it exists in a world mainly populated by dragons, can easily avoid it by flying away from it, but the kids (and flightless inhabitants) obviously don’t have that kind of protection. Thankfully it’s never visited, but just knowing it exists it makes the generally safe environment of Dragon Land a whole lot scarier.
