A delight for 8+

The Times

A delight for 8+

The Times

Cowell's loopy, scattershot imagination is as compelling as ever

Financial Times

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Cowell's loopy, scattershot imagination is as compelling as ever

Financial Times

Cowell is an effortlessly funny writer and is brimming with creativity...Highly recommended

Birmingham Post

Cowell is an effortlessly funny writer and is brimming with creativity...Highly recommended

Birmingham Post

Action and excitement aplenty

The Daily Telegraph

Action and excitement aplenty

The Daily Telegraph

The most inventive, entertaining and demanding contemporary children's epic

telegraph.co.uk

The most inventive, entertaining and demanding contemporary children's epic

telegraph.co.uk

<p>PRAISE FOR THE HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON BOOKS:<br />'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.'</p>

Amanda Craig, The Times

CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE WEEK: 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

... raucous and slapstick ... liberally illustrated with [Cressida Cowell's] riotous drawings, notes and maps.

The Financial Times

[Cressida Cowell] puts a contemporary spin on the old brains over brawn moral and brings the story to a climax with a thrilling dragon duel. Lots for lots of different readers to enjoy.

Books for Keeps

'a hilarious and gripping adventure, beautifully paced and studded with great dramatic scenes.'

Amanda Craig, Times

Bulging with good jokes, funny drawings and dramatic scenes, it is absolutely wonderful.

Independent on Sunday

'If light amusement is required, Cressida Cowell's <i>How to Break a Dragon's Heart</i> delivers all it promises. There are lots of illustrations and a playfulness with language that will draw in even the most reluctant reader.'

Daily Telegraph

'is not only funny, well written and thrilling, but also wise about what we owe those who love us.'

The Times

'Ahead of the film of the same title due to be released next March, this is a special edition of the first book in the uproarious series about Viking Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III. Highly original, and full of useful tips for dragon-owners everywhere.'

Woman's Weekly

Top stuff.

Daily Telegraph

Especially good... raises the series to classic status.

Times

Ceaselessly inventive... young readers are lucky to have her. *****

Books For Keeps

Always thrilling, funny and brilliantly illustrated.

Daily Express

A modern classic. Cowell is an effortlessly funny writer and is brimming with creativity. Highly recommended.

Birmingham Post

A delight for 8+.

The Times

Cowell's loopy, scattershot imagination is as compelling as ever.

Financial Times

Action and excitement aplenty.

Daily Telegraph

The most inventive, entertaining and demanding contemporary children's epic.

Daily Telegraph (Peter Florence)

Gripping adventure stories complete with quests and battles, a vividly imagined alternative world.

Daily Telegraph

Gloriously funny.

The Daily Telegraph

Read the HILARIOUS books that inspired the HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON films! Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third is a smallish Viking with a longish name. Hiccup's father is chief of the Hairy Hooligan tribe which means Hiccup is the Hope and the Heir to the Hairy Hooligan throne - but most of the time Hiccup feels like a very ordinary boy, finding it hard to be a Hero. When we last left Hiccup things were getting very dark indeed. The Dragon Rebellion has begun. Snotlout is the new Chief of the Hooligan Tribe. Stoick has been banished and given the Slavemark. And Alvin the Treacherous has EIGHT of the King's Lost Things, and has been proclaimed the new King of the Wilderwest ... But what can Hiccup do, now all alone and in exile, hunted by both humans and dragons? Can he find the Dragon Jewel, mankind's last and only hope and become the Hero once again?How to Train Your Dragon is a major award-winning DreamWorks film series. There is also a new live action movie due to be released in 2025. The TV series, Riders of Berk, can be seen on CBeebies and Cartoon Network.
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The hilarious exploits of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third - the smallish Viking with a longish name. Can he become the Hero everyone expects him to be? Read the HILARIOUS books that inspired the HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON films!
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A delight for 8+
PRAISE FOR THE HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON BOOKS:'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 TimesCHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE WEEK: 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... raucous and slapstick... liberally illustrated with [Cressida Cowell's] riotous drawings, notes and maps. - The Financial Times[Cressida Cowell] puts a contemporary spin on the old brains over brawn moral and brings the story to a climax with a thrilling dragon duel. Lots for lots of different readers to enjoy. - Books for Keeps'a hilarious and gripping adventure, beautifully paced and studded with great dramatic scenes.' - Amanda Craig, TimesBulging with good jokes, funny drawings and dramatic scenes, it is absolutely wonderful. - Independent on Sunday'If light amusement is required, Cressida Cowell's How to Break a Dragon's Heart delivers all it promises. There are lots of illustrations and a playfulness with language that will draw in even the most reluctant reader.' - Daily Telegraph'is not only funny, well written and thrilling, but also wise about what we owe those who love us.' - The Times
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A brand new hilarious Hiccup adventure in the How to Train Your Dragon series.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781444908794
Publisert
2012-09-27
Utgiver
Vendor
Hodder Children's Books
Vekt
364 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
128 mm
Dybde
36 mm
Aldersnivå
JC, 02
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
416

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Cressida Cowell is the author and the illustrator of the globally bestselling How to Train Your Dragon series. Her next series, The Wizards of Once, was an international bestseller. Cressida is also the author of the Emily Brown picture books, illustrated by Neal Layton. The Which Way series is her most recent and has already been translated into 15 languages.

How to Train Your Dragon has sold over 8 million books worldwide in 42 languages. It is also an award-winning DreamWorks film series, and a TV series shown on Netflix and CBBC. The Wizards of Once has been translated into 38 languages and also signed by DreamWorks.

Cressida was the Waterstones Children's Laureate (2019-2022). She is an ambassador for the National Literacy Trust and the Reading Agency and a founder patron of the Children's Media Foundation. She has won numerous prizes for her books, including the Gold Award in the Nestle Children's Book Prize, the Hay Festival Medal for Fiction, and Philosophy Now' magazine's 2015 Award for Contributions in the Fight Against Stupidity.

She grew up in London and on a small, uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland and she now lives in Hammersmith with her husband, three children and a dog called Pigeon.