How to Train Your Dragon: How to Seize a Dragon's Jewel
Book 10
$14.43
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
25 September 2012
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.
When we last left Hiccup things were getting very dark indeed. The Dragon Rebellion has begun. Snotlout is the new Chief of the Hooligan Tribe. Stoick has been banished and given the Slavemark.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781444908794 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1444908790 |
| Author: | Cressida Cowell |
| Publisher: | Hachette Children's Group |
| Imprint: | Hodder Children's Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 25 September 2012 |
| Weight: | 364g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 36mm |
| Series: | How To Train Your Dragon |
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‘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 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 Times… raucous and slapstick… liberally illustrated with [Cressida Cowell’s] riotous drawings, notes and maps. - The Financial Times[Cressida Cowell] puts a contemporary spin on the old brains over brawn moral and brings the story to a climax with a thrilling dragon duel. Lots for lots of different readers to enjoy. - Books for Keeps‘a hilarious and gripping adventure, beautifully paced and studded with great dramatic scenes.’ - Amanda Craig, TimesBulging with good jokes, funny drawings and dramatic scenes, it is absolutely wonderful. - Independent on Sunday‘If light amusement is required, Cressida Cowell’s How to Break a Dragon’s Heart delivers all it promises. There are lots of illustrations and a playfulness with language that will draw in even the most reluctant reader.’ - Daily Telegraph‘is not only funny, well written and thrilling, but also wise about what we owe those who love us.’ - The TimesAbout The Author
Cressida 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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