Witty writing and funny drawings and notes ensure that this clever Viking story keeps its readers laughing * Junior Education *ĬHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE WEEK: 'This book is great fun and has a Blackadderish sense of humour. Very funny indeed * Maidenhead Advertiser * Great jokes and suberb characters will appeal to boys and girls alike * With Kids * It's a wonderfully vibrant story, illustrated with the author's hilarious drawings, and told with a delightfully gobby sense of humour * Books Quarterly (Waterstones) *Ĭowell is a new star in children's fiction * The Times *

This is a maniacally crazy story liberally spattered with appropriately riotous illustrations, lists and maps * Books For Keeps * How to Fight a Dragon's Fury How to Train Your Dragon is now a major DreamWorks franchise starring Gerard Butler, Cate Blanchett and Jonah Hill and the TV series, Riders of Berk, can be seen on CBeebies and Cartoon Network. READ ALL 12 BOOKS IN THE SERIES! You don't have to read the books in order, but if you want to, this is the right order: 1. But when a dragon called the Monstrous Strangulator is thrown into the mix, things are about to get seriously SCARY. 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. 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. 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.

How to Be a Pirate by Cressida Cowell