How to Train Your Dragon: How to Ride a Dragon's Storm
Book 7
$14.30
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
25 February 2010
Summary
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third is a smallish Viking with a longish name. 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.
Trapped on The American Dream II with his friends Fishlegs and Camicazi, Hiccup must ESCAPE the barbarian Norbert the Nutjob, and somehow dodge the cruel P…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780340999127 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0340999128 |
| Author: | Cressida Cowell |
| Publisher: | Hachette Children's Group |
| Imprint: | Hodder Children's Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 25 February 2010 |
| Weight: | 260g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 128mm x 196mm |
| Series: | How To Train Your Dragon |
| Audience Age: | 7-10 |
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Critics Review
‘This fast paced adventure is packed with hilariously named characters and mythical monsters that will grab any young boys attention.’
‘This fast paced adventure is packed with hilariously named characters and mythical monsters that will grab any young boys attention.’ - Books for Keeps
‘genius’ - The Times’… full of charm … imaginative and bursting with inventive, off-the-wall humour, making them great stories to be read aloud.’ - Waterstones Books Quarterly‘another triumph from the creative pen of Cressida Cowell.’ - Writeaway.org’… inspired series … its enchantment lies primarily in the comical, affectionate and often irritable relationship between Hiccup (the only nerd in the violent Viking Hooligan tribe) and his runty little dragon Toothless.’ - Amanda Craig, The Times‘Fiercely exciting and laugh-aloud funny, it is as full of joy for children of 7+ who have given up reading as for those who love it.’ - Amanda Craig, The TimesIrresistably funny, exciting and endearing - Amanda Craig, The TimesCHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE WEEK: This book is great fun and has a Blackadderish sense of humour … full of the sort of jokes that will make schoolboys snigger. - Nicolette Jones, The Sunday TimesCressida Cowell
Cressida Cowell is the author and the illustrator of the globally bestselling How to Train Your Dragon series. Her next series, The Wizards of Once, was an international bestseller. Cressida is also the author of the Emily Brown picture books, illustrated by Neal Layton. The Which Way series is her most recent and has already been translated into 15 languages.
How to Train Your Dragon has sold over 8 million books worldwide in 42 languages. It is also an award-winning DreamWorks film series, and a TV series shown on Netflix and CBBC. The Wizards of Once has been translated into 38 languages and also signed by DreamWorks.
Cressida was the Waterstones Children’s Laureate (2019-2022). She is an ambassador for the National Literacy Trust and the Reading Agency and a founder patron of the Children’s Media Foundation. She has won numerous prizes for her books, including the Gold Award in the Nestle Children’s Book Prize, the Hay Festival Medal for Fiction, and Philosophy Now’ magazine’s 2015 Award for Contributions in the Fight Against Stupidity.
She grew up in London and on a small, uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland and she now lives in Hammersmith with her husband, three children and a dog called Pigeon.
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