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How to be a Viking

By Cressida Cowell
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The first How to Train Your Dragon book ever, and the inspiration for Cressida Cowell's best-selling fiction books that is now a Dreamworks feature film. So begins Cressida Cowell's stories about a little Viking who cannot fit in. Unlike his dad, Stoick the Vast, Hiccup is... Read More
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How to be a Viking

A new edition of the classic picture book that inspired Cressida Cowell's bestselling How to Train Your Dragon fiction series.

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The first How to Train Your Dragon book ever, and the inspiration for Cressida Cowell's best-selling fiction books that is now a Dreamworks feature film.

So begins Cressida Cowell's stories about a little Viking who cannot fit in. Unlike his dad, Stoick the Vast, Hiccup is tiny, thoughtful and polite and scared of almost everything – especially of going to sea for the very first time. But go he must... So who will save the day when everything goes wrong aboard ship and all the big Vikings lose their cool? This wonderfully witty fable will delight all those who have ever faced up to their worst fears.

'This is a lovely book; it is warm and witty, with instant appeal...' - The Children's Bookseller

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781444982084

Publisher: Hachette Children's Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 22 May 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Hodder Children's Books

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 272.0mm

Height: 262.0mm

Weight: 200g

Pages: 32

Collections

2025 Best Sellers Children's Books Children's Fiction Children's Picture Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational Cressida Cowell Featured In Stock Kid's Books New Zealand's Best Selling Books 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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