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How to Train Your Dragon: Book 1

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How to Train Your Dragon: Book 1 by Cressida Cowell

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By Cressida Cowell

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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.

In the first How to Train Your Dragon book Hiccup must lead ten novices in their initiation into the Hairy Hooligan Tribe. They have to train their dragons or be BANISHED from the tribe FOR EVER!

But what if Hiccup’s dragon resembles an ickle brown bunny with wings? And has NO TEETH? The Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus is stirring and wants to devour every Viking on the Isle of Berk . . .
Can Hiccup save the tribe – and become a Hero?

READ ALL 12 BOOKS IN THE SERIES!
You don’t have to read the books in order, but if you want to, this is the right order:
1. How to Train Your Dragon
2. How to Be a Pirate
3. How to Speak Dragonese
4. How to Cheat a Dragon’s Curse
5. How to Twist a Dragon’s Tale
6. A Hero’s Guide to Deadly Dragons
7. How to Ride a Dragon’s Storm
8. How to Break a Dragon’s Heart
9. How to Steal a Dragon’s Sword
10. How to Seize a Dragon’s Jewel
11. How to Betray a Dragon’s Hero
12. How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury

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.

Reviews

26 Sep 2025

Loved it!

17 Sep 2025

Adventureous story

09 Sep 2025

This was an amazing book i loved it so much x

07 Sep 2025

My favorite character is the dragon Toothless.
It intrested me because toothless made me laugh as he was treated like a boss by Hiccup.

02 Sep 2025

I love toothless in How to train your dragon because he is cute and brave.

31 Aug 2025

This is a good introduction to the series and made me want to read more

31 Aug 2025

My favourite character was toothless because he made me laugh. I learnt that size isn’t everything and that a small dragon can make you fiercer than a large one!

31 Aug 2025

My favourite character is Hiccup because he has lots of super clever ideas and he learnt how to train his dragon.

31 Aug 2025

I wish there was a million stars to rate it because it was very interesting, fascinating and helped me to learn new things like how to speak dragonese

30 Aug 2025

I did not understand what happened

29 Aug 2025

I really liked that Hiccup got eaten by Green death and then he sneezed him out! I thought it was really funny

29 Aug 2025

I love mythical stories so I can’t wait to read the whole series!

29 Aug 2025

I like this book because I like the films that go with it and I can imagine it better when reading

27 Aug 2025

Loved it.

26 Aug 2025

It was so funny! I liked the creativity of Hiccup when he made a plan to defeat the green death. I liked the plot and the way each character could be realistic.

22 Aug 2025

Having been persuaded by my 9 year old grandson to read this book, I took it away on holiday to read.
It was a delight to read, it was funny, the layout was good with the hand drawn illustrations.
I will be recommending this book and its sequels in the school library. We have a section entitled "You've seen the film, now read the book " and this will be a good one for that display!

20 Aug 2025

So different to the film!

12 Aug 2025

i like it because theres so many dragons and i like dragons

10 Aug 2025

It was fiction full of humor.My favorite character was Hiccup .

07 Aug 2025

I like Hiccup and Toothless.

01 Aug 2025

I really like it because I love dragons and enjoyed the story line.

01 Aug 2025

I like that it gives you so many good words and teaches you a lesson

31 Jul 2025

Really good

30 Jul 2025

I loved this story, the second best book in the world.

24 Jul 2025

Not enough action

23 Jul 2025

I like the book a lot because the style of pictures the illustrator has used is very unique compared to other basic pictures. In addition, I like how the character ‘snotlout’ thinks that he is more important than all the other members of the tribe, including the son of the head chief! I would say more, but I don’t want to spoil the story. I would definitely recommend this book!!

21 Jul 2025

Amazing, speechless

19 Jul 2025

I like Toothless because he is a very funny dragon and I would recommend it.

09 Jul 2025

I have read this and you should read it because it is so good

08 Jul 2025

I would recommend this book because it’s scary and a bit funny. I bit liked the best was when Hiccup escaped from the dragon’s mouth.

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