Overview
An unmissable collection of three How to Train Your Dragon stories, featuring new and exclusive short story WHEN THE WINDWALKER CHANGED. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third is a smallish Viking with a longish name. The Hairy Hooligan tribe think he's totally useless, but Hiccup is brave enough to face his destiny, with the help of one tiny dragon. This collection features three stories about Hiccup at different times in his life, including one BRAND-NEW tale: 1. Hiccup's dragon Toothless gives his best tips on training a human in HOW TO TRAIN YOUR VIKING 2. A deadly sea dragon stalks the Isle of Berk in THE DAY OF THE DREADER 3. And the BRAND-NEW WHEN THE WINDWALKER CHANGED, packed with action, adventure and grand reveals! Fully illustrated with Cressida Cowell's artwork, this deluxe paperback is a perfect gift for all fans of the global phenomenon How to Train Your Dragon. HOW TO TRAIN YOUR VIKING and THE DAY OF THE DREADER were originally published as World Book Day titles in 2006 and 2012 respectively.
Full Product Details
Author: Cressida Cowell
Publisher: Hachette Children's Group
Imprint: Hodder Children's Books
Dimensions:
Width: 12.40cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 19.20cm
Weight: 0.180kg
ISBN: 9781444979923
ISBN 10: 1444979922
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 10 October 2024
Recommended Age: From 7 years
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
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Children / Juvenile
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Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
Proper modern classic * Sunday Express * Irresistibly funny, exciting and endearing * The Times * Madcap and marvellous * Independent *
Author Information
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.
