How to Train Your Dragon
Written by Cressida Cowell
Narrated by David Tennant
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About this audiobook
Read the New York Times bestselling book that inspired the hit movie!
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, the quiet and thoughtful son of the Chief of the Hairy Hooligans, tries to pass the important initiation test of his Viking clan by catching and training a dragon. Can Hiccup do it without being torn limb from limb? Join the adventures and misadventures as he finds a new way to train dragons...and becomes a hero.
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Reviews for How to Train Your Dragon
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How to be a pirate is a story about Hiccup. Hiccup is appart of a viking tribe. This viking tribe is on the island of Berk. In this adventure Hiccup meats a man by the name of Alvin. But what they do lnot now is that Alvin is an outcast.lllel An outcast is a viking so tareble that there tribe must banish them. Alvin tricks the viking into get in him the storm blade, throw strongest word ever made. Then Hiccup, Alvin and Fishlegs fond the biggest tresser eve. Alvin was going to kill Hiccup and Fishlegs to have the tresser when a giant squid ate him. I rate this book a five star book. Now I am going to tell you why. This book was exiting. Also an adventurer fild book. I recommend this book to everyone, it is a good book to read to have a laugh. It is also toot to pass time. That is why I liked this book.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A great bedtime reading book for a seven year old boy.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Personal Response:The humorous narration and illustration of this story make the book a pleasure to read and discuss with kids. Both boys and girls enjoy this story of Hiccup's awkward coming-of-age story. The dragon, Toothless, while preferring to be cowardly and lazy, often comes through as the hero, setting the children to ponder what really makes an admirable character.Curricular Connections:This book would be great for a children's book club discussion on pirates, a theme most children enjoy, as well as discussion on what viking life was really like. This book is laced with references to viking mythology and sagas, opening the door for a presentation on viking life, including an introduction to stories from viking sagas, nonfiction books on viking life and connecting the viking way of life to the lives of other ancient groups.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5First Line: Thor was seriously annoyed.Now, I really know that pirates were a scurvy lot, not to be trusted. I really, really do know this. But something deep inside me has always wanted to sharpen my cutlass and hoist the Jolly Roger. A friend and I even co-wrote a story in which we were pirates, and the name of our ship was the PMS Hellborn Strumpet. (That has a ring to it, doesn't it?) Knowing all this, is it any wonder that when I first heard of Cressida Cowell's series of books about Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, young Viking and Pirate-in-Training, I simply had to have one of the books to read right now? Of course not!Hiccup is a bit on the small side and completely unmemorable. His small dragon, Toothless, is a cowardly hypochondriac. Together they attend the Pirate Training Program, learning about Spitting, Senseless Violence, Frightening Foreigners, Weaponry, Pointless Graffiti, and other important pirate tasks. Being the son of Stoick the Vast, Chief of the Hooligan tribe, great things are expected of Hiccup, but it looks as though Snotlout (Hiccup's arch enemy and the resident bully) has other intentions.School is interrupted by Alvin the Poor-But-Honest-Farmer who claims to know where the fabulous treasure of Grimbeard the Ghastly is located. Hiccup doesn't trust the handsome, smiling stranger, but of course he's outvoted and everyone boards a ship and starts counting their share of the treasure before it's found.I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. Lessons about deceptive appearances and inner worth, for example, are given in a humorous, tongue-in-cheek manner that takes away any medicinal sting. The illustrations are a delight-- looking like the pencil sketches of a grade school boy, hunched over his paper with the tip of his tongue clenched between his teeth. The book can easily be a hit with both children and adults.Will I be reading other books in this series? You bet! Dragons, Vikings, pirates, swordplay-- I wouldn't miss all this for the world!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5When Gobber the Belch's ship crashes down into the sea, a particular wooden box was the only thing that could help Hiccup and Fishlegs and his team survive. But when they got back to the shore, they realised what the box really was...
...It was a coffin. When the stupid Hairy Hooligans, not listening to Hiccup and his pal Fishlegs, opened the coffin marked 'DO NOT OPEN' they did not find Grimbeard the Ghastly as they expected (this was because Grimbeard was said to be in the coffin). Instead, a man who claimed his name was Alvin the Poor-but-Honest-Farmer was lying there.
Is Alvin really a poor-but-honest-farmer? And when he finds a treasure map leading the Hooligans to the Isle of the Skullions (huge, blind, deaf, eat-you-alive dragons) does he really go too? Does he want the Hooligans to have the treasure, or is he a treacherous liar with a heart of stone?
Full of fun and laughter, this book carries out all educational Viking history that you need to know. Read on to find out all about Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III!1 person found this helpful
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The treasure is found, and the bad pirates are bested.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Excellent children's book!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Another hilarious adventure. Toothless cracks me up and the story is filled with many options to giggle. A great read, on to the next!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hiccup, Fishlegs, Toothless, and friends are back. This time, they're in the process of training to be Viking pirates, when a coffin stating very clearly "DO NOT OPEN" carries the very much alive Alvin, the Poor but Honest Farmer, to the Hairy Hooligan tribe with a tail of pirate treasure to be had, if only they would follow in the footsteps of Hiccup's ancestor, Grimbeard the Ghastly. Shenanigans and over-the-top adventurous situations ensue. These are amusing, and David Tennant does a fabulous job as narrator. The only thing I could wish is for the sound to be mixed a little better, as the quiet parts are very quiet and then a Viking leader bellows, and it's rather difficult commuting listening.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A quick read/listen. Not as good as the first book but still an entertaining way to pass 3 hours while doing household chores. Toothless, Hiccup and Hiccup's best friend Fishlegs are for the most part the only voices of reason as tense moments, mayhem and adventure continues for the Hairy Hooligan tribe. The continuing lessons in 'dragon identification' are also a lot of fun.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Love these. This is the one where they are learning to swordfight, we first meet Alvin the Terrible (in Grimbeard the Ghastly's coffin) and they find the undersea treasure and defeat the Monstrous Strangulator
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I read this book with my son. He loved it just as much as the first! If you haven't read the first book, it's ok. The author does really well at keeping you informed. It is a book in the series, but can stand on its own. I suggest this for any parent that wants to bond with their kids, or an adult who wants a carefree, light read.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It was very clever how Hiccup outwitted the Monstrous Strangulator. The Skullions are scary yet likeable. It was funny when Toothless pooed in Alvin's helmet.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The continuing adventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III whose Viking training brings him in contact with a pirate's treasure and the unsavory characters who want to find it. Very cute children's book about pirates, Vikings, and dragons (albeit not the kind you can ride around on) with high stakes and some nice morals. It's clearly a series for the younger reader, but it's entertaining enough for adults so that you're not completely bored when you're asked to read it for the eleventh time. Vikings are always good in my book and so, of course, are pirates.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5It's hard to say whether I was just disappointed with the first book for not being like the movie, or whether it's because I realized that the narrator of the audio book is David Tennant, but regardless of reasons, I enjoyed this book more than the first. I expected a formulaic rehash of the previous book's plot, but the author surprised me by developing characters and plot. In this installment, Hiccup is trying to learn swordplay when his tribe embarks on a mission to recover buried pirate treasure.Hiccup thinks it's all a silly and dangerous waste of time, but if he ever hopes to become the leader of his people he will have to learn how to have and adventure. A fun and lively read with a surprisingly sophisticated moral.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On my birthday, or around my birthday, back in the summer, I was buying lots of books from charity shops. Someone urged me to get this one, for the silliness factor. I've been meaning to read it for ages, but hadn't got round to it until now. It's silly and easy and just fun, even for a twenty year old English Literature student.
Kids who like pirates and/or dragons should enjoy this one. There are pictures too, so I imagine it could be quite fun for parent-and-child reading sessions. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Cute book, funny kid drawings and a nice story. Entertaining and good, it shows how Hiccup now becomes a pirate and a bit more of the story behind the Hero he is nowadays... Nice book
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The further adventures of Hiccup the viking and Toothless the dragon are rather adorable. The death of the baby dragon was a bit hard for me, but the rest of the story was adorable and well written.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Aaarrrggg Matey! Join Hiccup in an adventrue with toothless, his friend dragon. Together they make a great team. As they fly through the most dangerous parts of the world. Hiccup collects valuable treasure along the way. I recommend this book to fantasy lovers.