How to Break a Dragon’s Heart 8 (How to train your Dragon)

Product Description
THE STORY CONTINUES in the eighth 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. Hiccup’s memoirs look back to when Hiccup was just an ordinary boy, and finding it very hard to be a Hero.

Hiccup must battle Berserks, dodge Scarers, complete the Impossible Task and save Fishlegs from being fed to the Beast! And all while being hunted down by an old enemy with a dark secret about the Lost Throne. What’s a Hero to do?

PRAISE FOR HICCUP:
‘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 )

Irresistably funny, exciting and endearing

(Amanda Craig, The Times )

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 )

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.

(Sunday Herald, Glasgow )

… 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 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 )

‘… Full of charm … Imaginative and bursting with inventive, off-the-wall humour, making them great stories to be read aloud.'(Waterstones Books Quarterly )

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 )

‘another triumph from the creative pen of Cressida Cowell.’

(Writeaway.org )

‘… Inspired series … Its enchantment lies primarily in the comical, affectionate and often irritable relationship between Hiccup (the only nerd in the violent Viking Hooligan tribe) and his runty little dragon Toothless.’

(Amanda Craig, The Times )