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How to Train Your Dragon: How To Be A Pirate

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29th June 2017

Price: £7.99

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780340999080

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Read the HILARIOUS books that inspired the HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON films!

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 a huge, six-and-a-half-foot floating coffin with the words BEWARE! DO NOT OPEN THIS COFFIN arrives, can you guess what happens next?

The Quest to discover the treasure of Hiccup’s ancestors begins and Hiccup needs to find it before Alvin the Treacherous gets his hands on it. But when a dragon called the Monstrous Strangulator is thrown into the mix, things are about to get seriously SCARY.

How to Train Your Dragon is a major award-winning DreamWorks film series. There is also a new live action movie due to be released in 2025. The TV series, Riders of Berk, can be seen on CBeebies and Cartoon Network.

Reviews

Books Quarterly (Waterstones)
It's a wonderfully vibrant story, illustrated with the author's hilarious drawings, and told with a delightfully gobby sense of humour
The School Librarian
A wonderful adventure
Tom Dillon, Mill Lane Primary School
extraordinary, funny and cool
Nicolette Jones, The Sunday Times
CHILDREN'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.'
Julia Eccleshare, Guardian children's editor
'If you haven't discovered Hiccup yet, you're missing out on one of the greatest inventions of modern children's literature.'
Junior Education
Witty writing and funny drawings and notes ensure that this clever Viking story keeps its readers laughing
Maidenhead Advertiser
Very funny indeed
Reading evening post
good holiday reading for any young adventurer
Publishing News
An excellent sequel to How to Train Your Dragon, this highly amusing adventure story with a dash of toilet humour is perfect reading for boys and girls alike aged 8-12.
The Times
Cowell is a new star in children's fiction
The School Librarian
A wonderful adventure
Books For Keeps
A maniacally crazy story liberally spattered with . . . riotous illustrations, lists and maps.
Waterstones Quarterly Magazine
A wonderfully wittily written and illustrated story.
The School Librarian
As the tension mounts, an hilarious and warming story emerges. It cries to be read aloud.
With Kids
Great jokes and suberb characters will appeal to boys and girls alike
Full of madcap action, to-the-death battles and hysterical Viking tomfoolery
Junior Education
Witty writing and funny drawings and notes ensure that this clever Viking story keeps its readers laughing
The Times
Cowell is a new star in children's fiction
The Times
Cowell is a new star in children's fiction
Books Quarterly (Waterstones)
It's a wonderfully vibrant story, illustrated with the author's hilarious drawings, and told with a delightfully gobby sense of humour
With Kids
Great jokes and suberb characters will appeal to boys and girls alike
Maidenhead Advertiser
Very funny indeed
The Financial Times
... raucous and slapstick... liberally illustrated with [Cressida Cowell's] riotous drawings, notes and maps.
Books for Keeps
[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
This is a maniacally crazy story liberally spattered with appropriately riotous illustrations, lists and maps
Lindsey Fraser, Sunday Herald, Glasgow
How to Train Your Dragon is a delightful narrative caper... It offers a challenging read to 11-year-olds, and rewards reading aloud, especially for those who relish an element of theatre at story time.
Books For Keeps
This is a maniacally crazy story liberally spattered with appropriately riotous illustrations, lists and maps
The Times
'Irresistibly funny, exciting and endearing'
Independent on Sunday
Bulging with good jokes, funny drawings and dramatic scenes, it is absolutely wonderful.