Full of bright wit and brutal honesty, this is a brilliant book that launched a huge series ... This is a fantastic adventure that explores failure as well as success and weighs the cost of being different against the price of fitting in with sneaky maturity and shining humour - The List
Has a good story to it -- Jamie, aged 9 - Daily Record
Descriptive and flowing, Cowell's Dragon novels have become deserved hits at the cinema, too. - Time Out
Cressida Cowell's How to Train Your Dragon books fill every spread with scales and fangs and typographical jeux d'esprit - The Independent
Cowell is a master of storytelling...On a profound level, this series celebrates divergence and being true to oneself, teaching children that they don't have to be carbon copies of their parents - Hay Festival of the Arts
Wise, colourful and funny - Dorset Echo
Funny, thrilling and ideal for children needing to discover the hero inside themselves - The Times
Cressida Cowell's series of the memoirs of Hiccup the Viking are funny, outrageous and will lure in the most reluctant reader - The Spectator
Top stuff - The Daily Telegraph
Gripping adventure stories complete with quests and battles, a vivdly imagined alternative world - The Daily Telegraph
This book will definitely make you laugh out loud - Torquay Herald Express
Cowell's wittily written books have become today's childhood must-read stories - Books Quarterly (Waterstones)
What we have here is Harry Potter meets Blackadder. The result is a story that anyone with a tolerance of snot and gore would find richly entertaining - The Glasgow Herald
This light-hearted, well-illustrated mock saga would appeal to girls and boys. My Dad liked it too. More please. -- Geoffrey Truscott, aged 11 - The Glasgow Herald
Bulging with good jokes, funny drawings and dramatic scenes, it is absolutely wonderful - Independent on Sunday
I can't praise this wonderful adventure too highly -- Amanda Craig - Independent on Sunday
One of the most enjoyable and original children's stories I have heard in a long time - The Independent
Her genuinely fierce, intelligent and scary dragons nearly steal the show, but Hiccup and his diminutive sidekick ultimately come out on top, both displaying a proper hero's mix of quick wit, courage and loyalty - Kirkus
The start of the most original series for kids in ages. Funny, clever and great for the whole family to share - Dundee Courier
A laugh out loud romp of a Viking adventure - Observer
Hilarious - guardian.co.uk
Proper modern classics - Sunday Express
By turns hilarious and wise, it's never predictable, brilliantly illustrated and always delightful - The Times
Filled with thrilling adventure and action-packed heroes -- Charlotte Tarling, Year 6 - Country Child
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's Children's Books Editor Mentioned in the 100 Best Children's Books Ever (Novels) - The Daily Telegraph
The first in the successful series... perfect for tricky boy readers, as the action scenes are first-class. - The Sunday Telegraph
