

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. You don't have to read the books in order, but if you want to, this is the right order: ***Please note this ebook is TEXT ONLY and does not include the illustrations that appear in the printed book.*** Ĭan Hiccup save the tribe - and become a Hero? They have to train their dragons or be BANISHED from the tribe FOR EVER!īut what if Hiccup's dragon resembles an ickle brown bunny with wings? And has NO TEETH? The Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus is stirring and wants to devour every Viking on the Isle of Berk. In the first How to Train Your Dragon book Hiccup must lead ten novices in their initiation into the Hairy Hooligan Tribe. 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 Horrendous Haddock the Third is a smallish Viking with a longish name. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.Read the HILARIOUS books that inspired the HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON films! Ages 4-7.Ĭopyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.


Cowell gives practical advice about facing fears, with an all-too-human problemAthrowing upAas the great equalizer.

His short red hair matches his father's scraggly beard, but his blue helmet has stumpy, blunt horns. In the loose watercolors, in which smiling sea creatures ride roiling waves, Hiccup is a gentler figure. That's what makes them so brave." Cowell (Little Bo Peep's Library Book) describes Vikings as "enormous, roaring thieves with bushy mustaches who sailed all over the world and took whatever they wanted." She downplays the pillaging (which could compromise the heroism) and pictures Stoick as a broad-bellied, guffawing fellow with curling horns on his pointed helmet. Hiccup sees that his peers get scared, "but they get over it. Their squiggly frowns betray their nausea, and they lean over the side of the bucking ship (with their backs politely to the reader). His linebacker-size father, known as Stoick the Vast, cheerfully scoffs, "Vikings don't get frightened." Hiccup reluctantly joins a crew and, as the sea grows wilder, he turns green and gets seasick "all over Stoick's feet." However, the other sailors feel queasy, too. Hiccup, a diminutive Viking boy, dreads rough stuff.
