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How to Train Your Dragon: How to Seize a Dragon´s Jewel: Book 10
Cressida Cowell
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Description for How to Train Your Dragon: How to Seize a Dragon´s Jewel: Book 10
Paperback. A brand new hilarious Hiccup adventure in the How to Train Your Dragon series. Series: How to Train Your Dragon. Num Pages: 416 pages, b/w line throughout. BIC Classification: 5AH; YFC; YFH. Category: (JC) Children's (6-12). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 400.
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 ... Read morebeen 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 now a major DreamWorks franchise starring Gerard Butler, Cate Blanchett and Jonah Hill and the TV series, Riders of Berk, can be seen on CBeebies and Cartoon Network.
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Product Details
Publisher
Hachette Children´s Group
Series
How to Train Your Dragon
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
About Cressida Cowell
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. ... Read more 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. Show Less
Reviews for How to Train Your Dragon: How to Seize a Dragon´s Jewel: Book 10
A delight for 8+
The Times
A delight for 8+
The Times
Cowell's loopy, scattershot imagination is as compelling as ever
Financial Times
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 ... Read morean 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
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
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
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 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
'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
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