How to Train Your Dragon: How to Seize a Dragon’s Jewel
Read Excerpt

How to Train Your Dragon: How to Seize a Dragon’s Jewel

by Cressida Cowell

Buy Now:

Amazon Blackwell's Bookshop.org Foyles See All

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781444908794

Price: £7.99

ON SALE: 29th June 2017

Genre: For National Curriculum Key Stage 2 / For Reluctant Readers (children) / Interest Age: From C 7 Years / Teenage)

Select a format:

Paperback
ebook

Disclosure: If you buy products using the retailer buttons above, we may earn a commission from the retailers you visit.

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.

Reviews

'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
Action and excitement aplenty
The Daily Telegraph
'a hilarious and gripping adventure, beautifully paced and studded with great dramatic scenes.'
Amanda Craig, Times
The most inventive, entertaining and demanding contemporary children's epic
telegraph.co.uk
Bulging with good jokes, funny drawings and dramatic scenes, it is absolutely wonderful.
Independent on Sunday
A delight for 8+
The Times
A delight for 8+
The Times
Cowell's loopy, scattershot imagination is as compelling as ever.
Financial Times
Action and excitement aplenty
The Daily Telegraph
Gripping adventure stories complete with quests and battles, a vividly imagined alternative world.
Daily Telegraph
[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
'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
Cowell is an effortlessly funny writer and is brimming with creativity...Highly recommended
Birmingham Post
... raucous and slapstick ... liberally illustrated with [Cressida Cowell's] riotous drawings, notes and maps.
The Financial 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
The most inventive, entertaining and demanding contemporary children's epic.
Daily Telegraph (Peter Florence)
'is not only funny, well written and thrilling, but also wise about what we owe those who love us.'
The Times
Ceaselessly inventive... young readers are lucky to have her. *****
Books For Keeps
Gloriously funny.
The Daily Telegraph
Cowell is an effortlessly funny writer and is brimming with creativity...Highly recommended
Birmingham Post
A delight for 8+.
The Times
Action and excitement aplenty.
Daily Telegraph
Especially good... raises the series to classic status.
Times
Cowell's loopy, scattershot imagination is as compelling as ever
Financial Times
The most inventive, entertaining and demanding contemporary children's epic
telegraph.co.uk
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 Times
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
Cowell's loopy, scattershot imagination is as compelling as ever
Financial Times
Top stuff.
Daily Telegraph

How to Train Your Dragon