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How to Train Your Dragon #3: How to Speak Dragonese Award-winning author

by Cressida Cowell (author)

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Suitable for 7 - 12 years

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Long ago in a fierce and frosty land, there lived a small and lonely Viking, and his name was Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III. Hiccup dreamed of being a great hero, but hero-training is a difficult job… and accidentally climbing on to a Roman Dragon-Rustling boat in your first “Boarding an Enemy Ship” lesson is most definitely a BIG MISTAKE.

Things go from bad to worse when Hiccup discovers that the baddie in charge of the ship is none other than fearsome Alvin the Treacherous. But when his trusty sidekick Toothless the dragon is captured, have-a-go hero Hiccup has no choice but to save the dragons – and the day! Peopled by hilarious characters – Fishlegs, the Old Wrinkly and the terrifying Kamikazi tribe – this slapstick saga of courage and chaos is so hot it sizzles in your hands!

Product Details

Series

How to Train Your Dragon (book 3)

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780340999097

Publisher

Hodder Children's Books

Date published

June 1st, 2017

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 6.5; Middle years; 5.0 points

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  • 240 pages

Condition

New

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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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  1. bookaholic202
    on 8 March 2014

    This is awesome because Hiccup always uses brains not brawn. A great adventure.

  2. fantasticmissfox
    on 5 March 2014

    Hilarious! It sucked me in and I was trapped!

  3. JaneK2
    on 8 January 2014

    brill book, I thought it would be boyish but I found it really cool, MUST READ! u will have to read how to train your dragon, the first book to understand some things but the book explains lightly at the start. and Cressida (the author) is writing more books as we speak, so ENJOY!!!!!!! 10/10 for me.

    5out of 5

  4. kicky105
    on 7 March 2012

    I laughed and laughed at this book – the translations in the middle are the funniest. Toothless has no manners and Hiccup is still trying to train him whilst solving problems at the same time! It is so funny!

  5. hamy1710
    on 3 March 2012

    very good

  6. smileitsfriday
    on 1 March 2012

    Hiccup’s dragon Toothless has been captured by the Romans! Then, the Romans have a plan to turn the Viking Tribes against each other! The Bog-Burgler heir is kidnapped, then guess who else? Hiccup. He, his best friend Fishlegs and Camicazi must find a way to escape! For how to train your dragon, * * * * *! Love it!