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How to Train Your Dragon: How To Be A Pirate

Book 2

Cressida Cowell, Author

Paperback

Series: How to Train Your Dragon

Imprint: Hodder Children's Books

Publication date: June 1, 2017

Category: Fantasy

ISBN: 9780340999080

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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 a huge, six-and-a-half-foot floating coffin with the words BEWARE! DO NOT OPEN THIS COFFIN arrives, can you guess what happens next?

The Quest to discover the treasure of Hiccup’s ancestors begins and Hiccup needs to find it before Alvin the Treacherous gets his hands on it. But when a dragon called the Monstrous Strangulator is thrown into the mix, things are about to get seriously SCARY.

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

A wonderful adventure

The School Librarian

How to Train Your Dragon is a delightful narrative caper... It offers a challenging read to 11-year-olds, and rewards reading aloud, especially for those who relish an element of theatre at story time.

Lindsey Fraser, Sunday Herald, Glasgow

[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

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

The Financial Times

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

Independent on Sunday

An excellent sequel to How to Train Your Dragon, this highly amusing adventure story with a dash of toilet humour is perfect reading for boys and girls alike aged 8-12.

Publishing News

Full of madcap action, to-the-death battles and hysterical Viking tomfoolery

Cowell is a new star in children's fiction

The Times

extraordinary, funny and cool

Tom Dillon, Mill Lane Primary School

good holiday reading for any young adventurer

Reading evening post

As the tension mounts, an hilarious and warming story emerges. It cries to be read aloud.

The School Librarian

A maniacally crazy story liberally spattered with . . . riotous illustrations, lists and maps.

Books For Keeps

'Irresistibly funny, exciting and endearing'

The Times

'If you haven't discovered Hiccup yet, you're missing out on one of the greatest inventions of modern children's literature.'

Julia Eccleshare, Guardian children's editor

This is a maniacally crazy story liberally spattered with appropriately riotous illustrations, lists and maps

Books For Keeps

It's a wonderfully vibrant story, illustrated with the author's hilarious drawings, and told with a delightfully gobby sense of humour

Books Quarterly (Waterstones)

It's a wonderfully vibrant story, illustrated with the author's hilarious drawings, and told with a delightfully gobby sense of humour

Books Quarterly (Waterstones)

Cowell is a new star in children's fiction

The Times

Cowell is a new star in children's fiction

The Times

Great jokes and suberb characters will appeal to boys and girls alike

With Kids

Great jokes and suberb characters will appeal to boys and girls alike

With Kids

Very funny indeed

Maidenhead Advertiser

Very funny indeed

Maidenhead Advertiser

Witty writing and funny drawings and notes ensure that this clever Viking story keeps its readers laughing

Junior Education

Witty writing and funny drawings and notes ensure that this clever Viking story keeps its readers laughing

Junior Education

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

A wonderfully wittily written and illustrated story.

Waterstones Quarterly Magazine

A wonderful adventure

The School Librarian

This is a maniacally crazy story liberally spattered with appropriately riotous illustrations, lists and maps

Books For Keeps

Cressida Cowell

Cressida Cowell was the Waterstones Children’s Laureate (2019-2022). 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 38 languages and has been signed by DreamWorks Animation. How to Train Your Dragon has sold over 8 million books worldwide in 42 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.

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