A small, thoughtful Viking boy must catch and train a dragon, and the one he gets is tiny and rude
A Viking hero in the making
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third is the son of Stoick the Vast, chief of the Hairy Hooligan tribe on the Isle of Berk. Unlike the other young Vikings, he is small, thoughtful and not very good at shouting or fighting. To become full members of the tribe, all the boys must pass an initiation test: catch a dragon and train it to obey.
Who will enjoy it
Readers aged about eight to twelve who enjoy funny, illustrated adventure stories with dragons, Vikings and unlikely heroes.
What you will get
A hilarious, warmly illustrated Viking adventure about a small boy, a rude little dragon and the discovery that brains can beat brawn.
How to Train Your Dragon Facts: Pages, Genre and Setting
Genre
Children’s Books · Vikings · Dragons · Unlikely hero
Length
256 pages · ≈ 8 h
More about this book
The boys climb into a cave full of sleeping dragons, and Hiccup ends up with a tiny, toothless green dragon whom he names Toothless. While the others use shouting to train their dragons, Hiccup secretly uses something no one else can: he speaks Dragonese, the dragons' own language. But Toothless is lazy, greedy and disobedient, and training him seems almost impossible.
Then two enormous sea dragons wash up on Berk, and the whole tribe is in danger. It is Hiccup, with his cleverness and his understanding of dragons, who finds a way to save everyone. The book is written as Hiccup's memoir, full of jokes, silly names and the author's own scratchy drawings, maps and pages from a guide to dragons. It is quite different from the films, which use the same characters in a new story.
Funny, fast and full of heart, the first of twelve books about Hiccup that grow deeper and more serious as the series goes on. It is a great choice for reading aloud and for reluctant readers. About 256 pages in the Little, Brown paperback.
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