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Zusatztext Full of bright wit and brutal honesty! this is a brilliant book that launched a huge series ... This is a fantastic adventure that explores failure as well as success and weighs the cost of being different against the price of fitting in with sneaky maturity and shining humour Informationen zum Autor Cressida Cowell is currently the Waterstones Children's Laureate (2019 - 2021). She is the author and illustrator of the bestselling The Wizards of Once and How to Train Your Dragon books series! and the author of the Emily Brown picture books! illustrated by Neal Layton. The Wizards of Once series has been translated into 37 languages and has been signed by DreamWorks Animation. How to Train Your Dragon has sold over 8 million books worldwide in 38 languages and is a major DreamWorks Animation film franchise! as well as being made into a TV series on Netflix and CBBC. Cressida is an ambassador for the National Literacy Trust and the Reading Agency! a Trustee of World Book Day and a founder patron of the Children's Media Foundation. She has won numerous prizes! including the Gold Award in the Nestle Children's Book Prize. Read the book that inspired the hit DreamWorks film How to Train Your Dragon. Zusammenfassung Read the original books before you see the How to Train Your Dragon film! With a film tie-in cover! this book will be a hit with children and adults alike. THE STORY BEGINS in the first volume of Hiccup's How to Train Your Dragon memoirs... Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter! a dragon-whisperer and the greatest Viking Hero who ever lived. But it wasn't always like that. In fact! in the beginning! Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was the most put upon Viking you'd ever seen. Not loud enough to make himself heard at dinner with his father! Stoick the Vast; not hard enough to beat his chief rival! Snotlout! at Bashyball! the number one school sport and CERTAINLY not stupid enough to go into a cave full of dragons to find a pet... It's time for Hiccup to learn how to be a Hero. How to Train Your Dragon is soon to be a DreamWorks film starring Gerrard Butler! America Ferrera and Jonah Hill! out in March 2010 adapted from the best selling How to Train Your Dragon series by Cressida Cowell. Read the rest of Hiccup's exploits in the How to Train Your Dragon series in How to Be a Pirate! How to Speak Dragonese! How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse! How to Twist a Dragon's Tale! A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons! How to Ride a Dragon's Storm! How to Break a Dragon's Heart. Check out the all-new Hiccup website at www.howtotrainyourdragonbooks.com . It's the place to go for games! downloads! activities and sneak peeks! Read all about Hiccup and all of your favourite characters! learn to speak Dragonese and train your own dragon to do tricks! ...
