I am really sad this series has ended because it's my absolute favourite series. I have enjoyed all of Hiccup's adventures and really wish dragons were real; I would love to go into my garden and discover a Riproarer or maybe a triple-headed Deadly Shadow

The Guardian

Brilliantly written

Woman’s Way

An epic finale

- Noah Sanders, aged 10, Northern Scot Midweek Extra

There are some really touching moments alongside rip roaring adventure...I am going to really miss Hiccup's dragon Toothless

South Wales Evening Post

Cowell's How to Train Your Dragon books stand out not only for their humour, excitement, and startlingly vivid descriptive language, but also, more surprisingly, for their profound meditations on complex political, historical, emotional and moral themes. They incite children to reason and to question, and inspire their imagination and inquisitiveness.

Philosophy Now Magazine

Cowell still writes these with pep and inventiveness

The Daily Telegraph

If your child's already a fan they'll devour this in a few hours; if not, cancel all Christmas plans and prepare for some mammoth reading sessions

The School Run

My children's book of the year... [How to Train Your Dragon] has kept a consistent flow of brilliant characters, jokes, stylish writing, illustrations and ideas - and the finale is tremendous. Her geeky, once-despised Viking hero, Hiccup, saves humanity (and dragons) from certain doom in an unpredictable, satisfying way. This series is one of the greatest ever written for those between eight and 12. Buy them all and your holidays will be blessed with perfect peace.

- Amanda Craig, The New Statesman

Wihtout question, Cowell has crafted a modern classic. The world she has created, throwing readers back into a time when dragons and humans inhabited the same place, is every bit as consuming and deep as Harry's in Hogwarts ... And so the fight -- part Doctor Who, part biblical epic -- begins.gripping, a worthy end to something very special

The Big Issue

Cressida Cowell won the Philosophy Now prize this year ... it turns out that the adventures of Hiccup, the Heroes and the dragons raise big questions about courage, parent-child relationships, friendship, bullying, what is means to be a boy and particularly, what is truly valuable. This opens with a sock-it-to-'em chapter and builds from there

The Sunday Times

This book is awesome; a truly fitting finale for such an amazing series

The guardian.com

Flaming good

Daily Express

The future is in the hands of a popular hero, Hiccup, who'll make you laugh along the way. Superb illustrations, too.

Chase

The story is full of excitement, danger, magic and triumph. This tremendous final adventure for Hiccup and his dragons is unmissable

The Week Junior

[Toothless] is the world's most adorable dragon, and there are probably very few who would argue that

Express.co.uk

With a story that soars and dips, twists and turns like a dragon's flight path, this is the brilliant final episode in a series that belongs on the bookshelves of every child who loves a turbulent thriller of a take

Daily Record

If your children haven't discovered these brilliant stories yet, they're missing a trick.

Daily Express

Now out in paperback is <i>How to Fight a Dragon's Fury</i>, the 12th and last in the series of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III's hilariously haphazard instruction manuals on how to be a hero the hard way

Evening Echo (Cork)

This is my favourite book ever! It's about different types of dragons, how they behave and how to find them! ... I adore this book so much that I couldn't stop reading it!

The guardian.com

Cowell addresses some big issues in this magical and mysterious tale that is bound to become a modern classic

The Independent

There is a deep humanity to the novel's resolution, which understands that endings are not really endings at all, and that life contains a mixture of the good, the evil and the just plain ordinary. The best children's books make the world magical. As every child looks for Narnia in the back of a wardrobe, so I hope that, for years to come, children will see dragons all around them. <i>How to fight a dragon's fury </i>is a resounding finale, full of fire and smoke, love, honour and old fashioned thrills. It's a triumph.

- Philip Womack, The Daily Telegraph

Very funny

Evening Echo (Cork)

Praise for the series: Cressida Cowell's How to Train Your Dragon books fill every spread with scales and fangs and typographical jeux d'esprit

The Independent

I am really sad this series has ended because it's my absolute favourite series. I have enjoyed all of Hiccup's adventures and really wish dragons were real; I would love to go into my garden and discover a Riproarer or maybe a triple-headed Deadly Shadow

The Guardian

Brilliantly written

Woman’s Way

An epic finale

- Noah Sanders, aged 10, Northern Scot Midweek Extra

There are some really touching moments alongside rip roaring adventure...I am going to really miss Hiccup's dragon Toothless

South Wales Evening Post

Cowell's How to Train Your Dragon books stand out not only for their humour, excitement, and startlingly vivid descriptive language, but also, more surprisingly, for their profound meditations on complex political, historical, emotional and moral themes. They incite children to reason and to question, and inspire their imagination and inquisitiveness.

Philosophy Now Magazine

Cowell still writes these with pep and inventiveness

The Daily Telegraph

If your child's already a fan they'll devour this in a few hours; if not, cancel all Christmas plans and prepare for some mammoth reading sessions

The School Run

My children's book of the year... [How to Train Your Dragon] has kept a consistent flow of brilliant characters, jokes, stylish writing, illustrations and ideas - and the finale is tremendous. Her geeky, once-despised Viking hero, Hiccup, saves humanity (and dragons) from certain doom in an unpredictable, satisfying way. This series is one of the greatest ever written for those between eight and 12. Buy them all and your holidays will be blessed with perfect peace.

- Amanda Craig, The New Statesman

Wihtout question, Cowell has crafted a modern classic. The world she has created, throwing readers back into a time when dragons and humans inhabited the same place, is every bit as consuming and deep as Harry's in Hogwarts ... And so the fight -- part Doctor Who, part biblical epic -- begins.gripping, a worthy end to something very special

The Big Issue

Cressida Cowell won the Philosophy Now prize this year ... it turns out that the adventures of Hiccup, the Heroes and the dragons raise big questions about courage, parent-child relationships, friendship, bullying, what is means to be a boy and particularly, what is truly valuable. This opens with a sock-it-to-'em chapter and builds from there

The Sunday Times

This book is awesome; a truly fitting finale for such an amazing series

The guardian.com

Flaming good

Daily Express

The future is in the hands of a popular hero, Hiccup, who'll make you laugh along the way. Superb illustrations, too.

Chase

The story is full of excitement, danger, magic and triumph. This tremendous final adventure for Hiccup and his dragons is unmissable

The Week Junior

[Toothless] is the world's most adorable dragon, and there are probably very few who would argue that

Express.co.uk

With a story that soars and dips, twists and turns like a dragon's flight path, this is the brilliant final episode in a series that belongs on the bookshelves of every child who loves a turbulent thriller of a take

Daily Record

If your children haven't discovered these brilliant stories yet, they're missing a trick.

Daily Express

Now out in paperback is <i>How to Fight a Dragon's Fury</i>, the 12th and last in the series of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III's hilariously haphazard instruction manuals on how to be a hero the hard way

Evening Echo (Cork)

This is my favourite book ever! It's about different types of dragons, how they behave and how to find them! ... I adore this book so much that I couldn't stop reading it!

The guardian.com