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 being a hero is a difficult job, as he soon discovered! And now poor Hiccup has his work cut out to discover America, save his father, battle evil Polarserpents … AND win the annual Inter-Tribal Friendly Swimming Race, in only three months and five days! Another havoc-filled, hysterically funny adventure featuring the cutest Viking around.

Product Details

Series

How to Train Your Dragon (book 7)

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780340999127

Publisher

Hodder Children's Books

Date published

June 1st, 2017

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Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 6.9; Middle years; 6.0 points

Other details

272 pages

Condition

New

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Series

How to Train Your Dragon

Author/Illustrator

Cressida Cowell

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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Dragon6
on 15 February 2021

I absolutely love this book, I can’t put it down. It’s much better than the film and tv series!

I love the adventures, friendships and that every character has something unique about them.

5out of 5
coolcars
on 11 October 2012

I really like the How to train you dragon series even though I have only read 4 of them.

This book is a great read and keeps you on the edge of your seat with suspence.

5out of 5

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