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How to Train Your Dragon #10: How to Seize a Dragon's Jewel Award-winning author/illustrator

by Cressida Cowell (author)

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Exiled and hunted by both humans and dragons, Hiccup faces his darkest time yet. The Dragon Rebellion has begun. Snotlout is the new Chief of the Hooligan Tribe. Stoick has been banished and given the Slavemark. And Alvin the Treacherous has EIGHT of the King’s Lost Things, and has been proclaimed the new King of the Wilderwest. Alone and friendless, our hapless hero must find a way to fight back. But can he find the Dragon Jewel, mankind’s last and only hope? And even if he does, what should he do with it?

  • Laughs and thrills with our favourite nerdy hero
  • A wonderful mix of humour, suspense and excitement
  • Hilarious writing paired with witty pencil cartoons
  • Hiccup’s books are now major Hollywood films

Product Details

Series

How to Train Your Dragon (book 10)

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781444908794

Publisher

Hodder Children's Books

Date published

September 25th, 2012

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AR book level: 6.5; Middle years; 9.0 points

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How to Train Your Dragon

How to Train Your Dragon

Author/Illustrator

Cressida Cowell

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Cressida grew up in London and on a small, uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland. The island had no roads, houses or electricity. For the first four years, the family would be dropped off like castaways on the island by a local boatman and picked up again two weeks later. Imagine being like Robinson Crusoe and having a whole island to yourself to explore…

By the time Cressida was eight, the family had built a small stone house on the island, so they no longer had to camp out in tents, which made life much drier. Her father got a boat, so they could fish for enough food to feed the family for the whole summer.

Every year, Cressida spent the long summer holiday, and some of the spring, on the island. The house was lit by candle-light, and there was no electricity, telephone or television, so Cressida and the family lived like people in the olden days. In the evening, Cressida’s father told the children old Scottish tales about the people who lived on the islands round about, who were always fighting and tricking each other, and about dragons living in caves in the cliffs.

Cressida spent her time writing stories, fishing for things to eat, and exploring the island looking for these dragons. These childhood experiences (quite apart from her fluency in Old Norse, of course), made her delighted to be approached to translate the Hiccup memoirs…

After leaving school Cressida studied English at university, and then got degrees in graphic design and illustration at art college. For her final project at art school she created a childrens’ book called Little Bo Peep’s Library Book and was lucky enough to have that book published in 1998. She has gone on to write ten more picture books, including the popular Emily Brown stories, which won the Nestle Childrens’ Book Prize in 2006.

In 2002 she began to write a book for older children. Remembering the stories she had written on the island as a child, these ideas became the book How to Train Your Dragon. There are now nine books in the Hiccup series, and a DreamWorks Animation film of How to Train Y0ur Dragon came out in 2010!

Cressida lives in London with her husband, three children and a hamster.

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    bluepeter123456
    on 15 December 2015

    I have read this book but I had to read the other books to understand what it was about.

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    bookaholic202
    on 8 March 2014

    It’s the first time Valhalla appears in the series. She’s Hiccup’s mother and she really stands up for him when all is lost.

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    TheMileLongBookshelfBlog
    on 8 March 2013

    THIS LOOKS FANTASTIC wow

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    lap312i
    on 8 March 2013

    it seems as a good book

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    marve154
    on 21 November 2012

    Cool.

    5out of 5
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    coolcars
    on 21 October 2012

    By far the best book in the series. Full or emotion and drama

    5out of 5