Many kids have seen the How to Train Your Dragon movies and I must say they are my favourite movies (even out of adult movies!). However, the books are just as good. Though they are quite different to the movies they are excellent books and are my favourite children's books at the moment. Read this one with my sons - the eldest loved it (and immediately went to find the second in the series at the local library). The series was published by Hodder Children’s Books in the time period from 2004 to 2015. The events of the books take place in a fictional Viking world, where the protagonist Hiccup goes through a series of adventures to become a hero. There’s a film trilogy based on the books, created by Dreamworks Animation. Characters in the How to Train Your Dragon books During another lesson, Hiccup and Fishlegs are again kidnapped and taken to Fort Sinister, a base of operations for the Roman Empire. Once there, Hiccup recognizes his old enemy Alvin the Treacherous. Fishlegs and Hiccup are imprisoned along with the young female Bog-Burglar heir, Camicazi. Toothless is eventually allowed to stay with Hiccup. After several failed attempts at escape, Hiccup calls for Ziggerastica and comes up with a plan of escape on Saturn's Day.

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Toothless eats Hiccup’s How to Train Your Dragon book on his 12th birthday. Hiccup has no idea what to do until he learns that there’s a copy at the Meathead Public Library. Hiccup decides that he must steal the copy from the library. How to Ride a Dragon’s Storm (2008) No, seriously. Toothless is not remotely adorable. He's crude and gross, and purposely poops all over Hiccup's house. Also, he hates Hiccup for most of it, and Hiccup hates him, mostly because the Vikings actually use dragons as slaves after they DRAGONNAP them from their caves when they're babies. That's one of the tests to become a full member of the tribe. As is training the dragon to do what you say by yelling at it. Oh, AND Toothless is way smaller than in the movie. Hiccup can carry him around. If anything, Toothless reminded me of Gollum. Yeah.Furious (in books 8-12) is a Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus. He’s the founder and leader of the Dragon Rebellion. At the time Hiccup is in exile, his tribe faces real danger. He goes on an adventure to find the one thing that can save them: the Dragon’s Jewel. As it turns out, the Dragon’s Jewel is found inside the stomach of a dragon, along with a very close person. Will he be up to the challenge? How to Betray a Dragon’s Hero (2013) Cressida Cowell grew up in London and on a small, uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland. She was convinced that there were dragons living on this island, and has been fascinated by dragons ever since. She has a BA in English Literature from Oxford University, a BA in Graphic Design from St Martin's and an MA in Narrative Illustration from Brighton. Cressida loves illustrating her own work, but also loves writing books for other people to illustrate as the end result can be so unexpected and inspiring. Cressida has written and illustrated eight books in the popular Hiccup series. The unique blend of child centred humour and sublime prose made Hiccup an instant hit. How to Train Your Dragon is now published in over 30 languages. A DreamWorks Animation feature film is out in March 2010. Also the author of picture books, Cressida has won the Nestle Children's Book Prize 2006 and has been shortlisted for many others. Cressida lives in Hammersmith with her husband and three children.

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All twelve novels have been recorded as audio-books and released by Hachette Audio, narrated by actor David Tennant, [10] who also plays the voice of Spitelout, Snotlout's father, in the film adaptations and in the series DreamWorks Dragons. Audio-books of the novels have also been released in German, narrated by Benedikt Weber and released by Arena Verlag GmbH, and are currently available through Audible.com. Fishlegs (in books 1–12) is Hiccup's best friend and supporting character in a number of books who is allergic to reptiles. He has a squint, asthma, his pet is the only vegetarian dragon on the planet, and he is seen as a wimp, but he has shown himself to be quite cunning when he needs to be. He is also fond of poetry and wants to be a bard in later books. He is not a Hooligan by blood but an orphan who washed up on Berk's shores as an infant, his parentage being a mystery to him until the identities of his mother and father were revealed to him in the tenth and twelfth books respectively. At the end of the final book, he founds his own tribe, the No-Names, and becomes a bard.

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Hiccup buries the arrow and finds it had a seed on it that has sprouted into a potato plant. He plants more potatoes and no one dies of Vorpentitis ever again. I can think of plenty more reasons if I sit here long enough, but the three I've given provide a nice long essay in themselves, so I'm sure they'll suffice. All that's left to say is that I give this series a strong recommendation. I'm not saying everyone who reads it will like it (the same way, I suppose, that not everyone who watches One Piece for the first time will instantly fall in love with it, although I certainly did), but I think all that matters is your ability to love adventure, to love the characters, and to tap into your inner hero. And if not a hero, there's always at least someone who appreciates heroism somewhere inside you, which is probably why you read books about them in the first place.How to Train Your Dragon follows Hiccup Horrendous the Third, heir to the leadership of an island of 'orrible Vikings and his venture in to becoming a proper Viking, by getting a dragon pet and Old Wrinkly (in books 1–5, 7–9, 11, 12), is Valhallarama's father and Hiccup's grandfather. Old Wrinkly is the soothsayer and doctor of the Hairy Hooligans tribe and only trusted thinker of the Tribe. Between the beginning of Book 9 and the end of Book 11, it is unknown what came of him. He appears in the twelfth and final book. For the film loosely based on the book series, see How to Train Your Dragon (film). For the franchise based on the film, see How to Train Your Dragon. For the video game, see How to Train Your Dragon (video game). Cowell, Cressida (6 May 2014). How to Train Your Dragon Special Edition: With Brand New Short Stories!. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. ISBN 978-0316407472. WORTH IT. Oh, David Tennant. I love him as Doctor Who, of course, but now I got to hear him go full on Scottish, and I loved it. He's a delightful narrator, just as you would expect. He even did a voice that was rather reminiscent of Jeremy Irons for the giant, man-eating dragon. I just sort of tried to pay as little attention as possible to the story and to soak in the accents.