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Paperback
240 pages

Author

Cressida Cowell
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Author's Website

www.cressidacowell.co.uk/

Publisher

Hodder Children's Books

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Publication date

4th February 2010

ISBN

9780340997161

Hiccup: How to Train Your Dragon (Film Tie-In edition)

Cressida Cowell

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Julia Eccleshare's comment:

Jokes flow thick and fast from this most original and inventive Viking adventure, which launched the career of a Viking with a difference. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock grew up at a time of dragons but he was not always a hero. He had to learn to fight them. To do so he had to pass the Dragon Initiation Programme, an awesome schedule run by Gobber the Belch, idiot in charge of initiation on the Isle of Berk. Hiccup was by no means a natural high achiever when it came to dragon training but after many hilarious mishaps, he soon got the hang of it and was on the way to becoming a Hero.

About the Film:

This is the film tie-in version of How to train your Dragon and is therefore the perfect companion to the film, which is released in March 2010.  It’s a major animated motion picture from Dreamworks, who created Shrek, Madagascar and Kung-Fu Panda.  It's an adventure comedy set in the mythical world of burly Vikings and wild dragons and based on the book by Cressida Cowell.  The story centres around a Viking teenager, who lives on the island of Berk, where fighting dragons is a way of life.  Inititation is coming and this is his one chance to prove his worthiness to his tribe and his father.  But when he encounters and ultimately befriends an injured dragon, his world is turned upside down. 

For lots of additional action and adventure with Hiccup why not also visit www.howtotrainyourdragonbooks.com.

There are now eight books in the How to Train your Dragon series and they are published in over 30 languages.  If you haven’t discovered Hiccup yet, you’re missing out on one of the greatest inventions of modern children’s literature.

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Synopsis

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Read the original books before you see the How to Train Your Dragon film! With a film tie-in cover, this book will be a hit with children and adults alike. THE STORY BEGINS in the first volume of Hiccup's How to Train Your Dragon memoirs...Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter, a dragon-whisperer and the greatest Viking Hero who ever lived. But it wasn't always like that.

In fact, in the beginning, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was the most put upon Viking you'd ever seen. Not loud enough to make himself heard at dinner with his father, Stoick the Vast; not hard enough to beat his chief rival, Snotlout, at Bashyball, the number one school sport and CERTAINLY not stupid enough to go into a cave full of dragons to find a pet...It's time for Hiccup to learn how to be a Hero. How to Train Your Dragon is soon to be a DreamWorks film starring Gerrard Butler, America Ferrera and Jonah Hill, out in March 2010 adapted from the best selling How to Train Your Dragon series by Cressida Cowell.

Read the rest of Hiccup's exploits in the How to Train Your Dragon series in How to Be a Pirate, How to Speak Dragonese, How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse, How to Twist a Dragon's Tale, A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons, How to Ride a Dragon's Storm, and How to Break a Dragon's Heart. Check out the all-new Hiccup website at www.howtotrainyourdragonbooks.com It's the place to go for games, downloads, activities and sneak peeks! Read all about Hiccup and all of your favourite characters, learn to speak Dragonese and train your own dragon to do tricks!

Reviews

'... 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

'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

'Bulging with good jokes, funny drawings and dramatic scenes, it is absolutely wonderful.'
-- Independent on Sunday

'If you haven't discovered Hiccup yet, you're missing out on one of the greatest inventions of modern children's literature.'
- Julia Eccleshare, Guardian children's editor

About The Author

Cressida Cowell is the creator of one of children's literature's most popular modern characters - Hiccup. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, to give him his full title, is a rather weedy Viking who won the hearts of readers worldwide when he appeared in Cressida's first novel for eight to twelve year olds, How to Train Your Dragon. The unique blend of child centred humour and sublime prose made Hiccup an instant hit. First published in 2003, there are now eight novels in the series, with the latest, How to Break a Dragon's Heart published in September 2009. In the latest exciting chapter in the life of Hiccup, a mjor animated film of How to Train Your Dragon is currently in production with DreamWorks and is scheduled for release in March 2010.

Cressida grew up mostly in London, which remains forever her favourite place in the world. She lives in West London with her husband and their three children. She was educated at Marlborough College in Somerset where she became, and remains, great friends with top author/illustrator Lauren Child.

The Hiccup books are written and illustrated by Cressida. She also loves to write books for other people to illustrate, which is how the Emily Brown books, published by Orchard Books, were created. That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown, illustrated by Neal Layton, was winner of the Under 5 category of the Nestle Children's Book Prize in 2006, was selected as a Richard and Judy Children's Christmas Book Club read, and chosen for CITV's recent Bookaboo programme. This was followed by Emily Brown and the Thing, also highly acclaimed by readers and reviewers. A third title comes in October 2009 - Emily Brown and the Elephant Emergency.

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