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How to Break a Dragon's Heart

Cressida Cowell

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Julia Eccleshare's comment:

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock 111, master of all things Heroic, has a load of new challenges to complete…Now he must complete the Impossible Task, save Fishlegs from being fed to the Beast to and discover the secret of the Lost Throne. It is a lot for one Hero. Luckily, Hiccup has just what it takes to solve all this and more – even if his methods are, as usual, a bit unorthodox.

There’s a major animated film featuring Hiccup - How to train your Dragon - scheduled for March 2010 from Dreamworks.

Who is Julia Eccleshare ?

Synopsis

THE STORY CONTINUES in the eighth 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. Hiccup's memoirs look back to when Hiccup was just an ordinary boy, and finding it very hard to be a Hero. Hiccup must battle Berserks, dodge Scarers, complete the Impossible Task and save Fishlegs from being fed to the Beast! And all while being hunted down by an old enemy with a dark secret about the Lost Throne. What's a Hero to do? 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 Train Your Dragon, 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, and How to Ride a Dragon's Storm. 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

'Cressida Cowell's splendid series about the nerdy Viking Hiccup and his tiny dragon Toothless remain perennial favourites, and the latest, How to Break a Dragon's Heart is not only funny, well written and thrilling, but also wise about what we owe those who love us.'
Amanda Craig, The Times

'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

'... full of charm ... imaginative and bursting with inventive, off-the-wall humour, making them great stories to be read aloud.'
Waterstones Books Quarterly

'With consistently funny stories told in inventive language - including the opportunity to extend your knowledge of Dragonese - these books always entertain.'
Waterstone's Books Quarterly

PRAISE FOR HICCUP:

'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 Times Irresistably funny, exciting and endearing

'Cowell writes laugh-out-loud books with plenty of boy appeal Cowells anarchic drawings suit the slapstick humour.'
The Herald

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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