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How to Train Your Dragon: A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons

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By Cressida Cowell
Series: How To Train Your Dragon
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iHow to Train Your Dragon: A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons by Cressida Cowell follows young Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III as he bravely sneaks into the Meathead Public Library to steal the How to Train Your Dragon manual to save his father. Facing numerous challenges, Hiccup learns invaluable lessons about courage, friendship, and leadership in this irresistible adventure. This thrilling tale is perfect for children who love humour and excitement.
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This book may appeal to you if you're a fan of adventurous tales brimming with humour and excitement. Young readers who enjoy stories about dragons, friendship, and the journey of becoming a hero will find this magical world full of fascinating characters and thrilling quests highly entertaining.

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How to Train Your Dragon: A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons

The hilarious exploits of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third - the smallish Viking with a longish name. Can he become the Hero everyone expects him to be? Read the HILARIOUS books that inspired the HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON films!

Read the books that inspired the hit DreamWorks film How to Train Your Dragon.

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Read the HILARIOUS books that inspired the How to Train Your Dragon films!

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third is a smallish Viking with a longish name. Hiccup's father is chief of the Hairy Hooligan tribe which means Hiccup is the Hope and the Heir to the Hairy Hooligan throne - but most of the time Hiccup feels like a very ordinary boy, finding it hard to be a Hero.

Hiccup Haddock Horrendous the Third just wants a nice PEACEFUL birthday. But Hiccup's dad wants to steal the prized How to Train Your Dragon book, and prove that his Hooligans are just as good as the Bog Burglars - except Hiccup's dragon Toothless has EATEN it!

So when Camicazi suggests stealing a copy from the grim Meathead Public Library, it seems like a good idea. BUT IT ISN'T! The library is guarded by the Horrible Hairy Scary the Librarian, four hundred Meathead Warrior Guards AND their Driller-Dragons...

Will Hiccup survive - or is he DOOMED on his own birthday?

ALSO INCLUDES A DRAGONESE DICTIONARY!

How to Train Your Dragon is a major award-winning DreamWorks film series. There is also a new live action movie due to be released in 2025. The TV series, Riders of Berk, can be seen on CBeebies and Cartoon Network.

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How to Train Your Dragon: A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons is praised for its rambunctious illustrations and humour that resonates with school-age children. Critics highlight its ability to charm reluctant readers with its lively narrative and slapstick elements. The book is noted for its engaging adventure and dramatic scenes, making it an exciting read for 7-year-olds and older children. Cowell's playful illustrations complement the story's humour, adding to its appeal as an adventurous and entertaining tale.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780340999134

Publisher: Hachette Children's Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 June 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Hodder Children's Books

Illustration: B/w throughout

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 21.0mm

Width: 131.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 245g

Pages: 272

Collections

Children's Books Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Cressida Cowell DreamWorks Dragons Series: How To Train Your Dragon Young Adult

About the Author

Cressida Cowell is the author and the illustrator of the globally bestselling How to Train Your Dragon series. Her next series, The Wizards of Once, was an international bestseller. Cressida is also the author of the Emily Brown picture books, illustrated by Neal Layton. The Which Way series is her most recent and has already been translated into 15 languages.

How to Train Your Dragon has sold over 8 million books worldwide in 42 languages. It is also an award-winning DreamWorks film series, and a TV series shown on Netflix and CBBC. The Wizards of Once has been translated into 38 languages and also signed by DreamWorks.

Cressida was the Waterstones Children's Laureate (2019-2022). She is an ambassador for the National Literacy Trust and the Reading Agency and a founder patron of the Children's Media Foundation. She has won numerous prizes for her books, including the Gold Award in the Nestle Children's Book Prize, the Hay Festival Medal for Fiction, and Philosophy Now' magazine's 2015 Award for Contributions in the Fight Against Stupidity.

She grew up in London and on a small, uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland and she now lives in Hammersmith with her husband, three children and a dog called Pigeon.

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