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How to Train Your Dragon: How To Be A Pirate

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29th June 2017

Price: £7.99

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780340999080

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Reviews

The School Librarian
As the tension mounts, an hilarious and warming story emerges. It cries to be read aloud.
Publishing News
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.
Nicolette Jones, The Sunday 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.'
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
Julia Eccleshare, Guardian children's editor
'If you haven't discovered Hiccup yet, you're missing out on one of the greatest inventions of modern children's literature.'
Junior Education
Witty writing and funny drawings and notes ensure that this clever Viking story keeps its readers laughing
The School Librarian
A wonderful adventure
Reading evening post
good holiday reading for any young adventurer
The Financial Times
... raucous and slapstick... liberally illustrated with [Cressida Cowell's] riotous drawings, notes and maps.
Books for Keeps
[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
This is a maniacally crazy story liberally spattered with appropriately riotous illustrations, lists and maps
Waterstones Quarterly Magazine
A wonderfully wittily written and illustrated story.
The School Librarian
A wonderful adventure
Maidenhead Advertiser
Very funny indeed
The Times
Cowell is a new star in children's fiction
Tom Dillon, Mill Lane Primary School
extraordinary, funny and cool
The Times
Cowell is a new star in children's fiction
With Kids
Great jokes and suberb characters will appeal to boys and girls alike
Maidenhead Advertiser
Very funny indeed
Books For Keeps
A maniacally crazy story liberally spattered with . . . riotous illustrations, lists and maps.
Full of madcap action, to-the-death battles and hysterical Viking tomfoolery
Books For Keeps
This is a maniacally crazy story liberally spattered with appropriately riotous illustrations, lists and maps
The Times
'Irresistibly funny, exciting and endearing'
Independent on Sunday
Bulging with good jokes, funny drawings and dramatic scenes, it is absolutely wonderful.
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
With Kids
Great jokes and suberb characters will appeal to boys and girls alike
Lindsey Fraser, Sunday Herald, Glasgow
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.
Junior Education
Witty writing and funny drawings and notes ensure that this clever Viking story keeps its readers laughing
The Times
Cowell is a new star in children's fiction