kiracanread
Written on May 17, 2020
Listen to the books that inspired the How to Train Your Dragon films! This book will be a hit with children and adults alike.
THE STORY BEGINS in the first volume of Hiccup's How to Train Your Dragon memoirs...
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter, a dragon-whisperer and the greatest Viking Hero who ever lived. But it wasn't always like that.
In fact, in the beginning, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was the most put upon Viking you'd ever seen. Not loud enough to make himself heard at dinner with his father, Stoick the Vast; not hard enough to beat his chief rival, Snotlout, at Bashyball, the number one school sport and CERTAINLY not stupid enough to go into a cave full of dragons to find a pet... It's time for Hiccup to learn how to be a Hero.
How to Train Your Dragon is now a major DreamWorks franchise starring Gerard Butler, Cate Blanchett and Jonah Hill and the TV series, Riders of Berk, can be seen on CBeebies and Cartoon Network.
- ISBN10 1840329696
- ISBN13 9781840329698
- Publish Date 12 February 2004 (first published 13 March 2003)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 April 2023
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hachette Children's Group
- Imprint Hodder Children's Books
- Edition Unabridged edition
- Format Audiobook (CD)
- Pages 210
- Language English
Reviews
Sarah Says
Written on Feb 25, 2016
Hiccup is still the Outsider wanting to fit in, the unlikely hero, the underdog etc. Astrid and Ruffnut are no where to be seen, no girls are – I love Astrid and Ruffnut so that was a little disappointing.
All that said this book was adorable! The book series is listed for ages 6 to 10 – I would have devoured this series at around eight years old.
We follow hiccup as an initiate competing for the right to become a full member of his father’s tribe or be banished from the isle of Berk forever. We see hiccup along with all the other boys go off to catch a dragon that they must then train and use to compete. Obviously Toothless does not cooperate in this matter and what follows is humorous tale of mishaps and triumphs.
There is still a enormous dragon showdown with Hiccup and Toothless still getting to be the heroes of the story.
After I had bought the paperback I found out that David Tennent voices the audio books. If I had to pick one thing that would have made me enjoy this book more, it would be having David Tennent read it to me! As is i’m going to give it Four Stars.
Ace
Written on Feb 13, 2015