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How to Train Your Dragon: How to Seize a Dragon's Jewel

On sale

20th February 2014

Price: £19.99

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Selected: Audiobook Downloadable / ISBN-13: 9781444916553

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The story continues in the tenth volume of Hiccup’s How to Train Your Dragon memoirs read by David Tennant.

When we last left Hiccup things were getting very dark indeed. The Dragon Rebellion has begun. Snotlout is the new Chief of the Hooligan Tribe. Stoick has been banished and given the Slavemark. And Alvin the Treacherous has EIGHT of the King’s Lost Things, and has been proclaimed the new King of the Wilderwest … But what can Hiccup do, now all alone and in exile, hunted by both humans and dragons? Can he find the Dragon Jewel, mankind’s last and only hope? And if he does, what will he do with it?

How to Train Your Dragon is a DreamWorks film starring Gerrard Butler, America Ferrera and Jonah Hill, out on DVD. Listen to the rest of Hiccup’s exploits in How to Train Your Dragon, How to Be a Pirate, How to Speak Dragonese, How to Cheat a Dragon’s Curse, How to Twist a Dragon’s Tale, A Hero’s Guide to Deadly Dragons, How to Ride a Dragon’s Storm, How to Break a Dragon’s Heart and How to Steal a Dragon’s Sword. Check out http://www.howtotrainyourdragonbooks.com for games, downloads, activities and sneak peeks! Read all about Hiccup and all of your favourite characters, learn to speak Dragonese and train your own Dragon to do tricks!

(P) Hodder Children’s Books 2014

Reviews

The Daily Telegraph
Gloriously funny.
The Daily Telegraph
Action and excitement aplenty
Daily Express
Always thrilling, funny and brilliantly illustrated.
The Times
A delight for 8+.
Daily Telegraph
Action and excitement aplenty.
Independent on Sunday
Bulging with good jokes, funny drawings and dramatic scenes, it is absolutely wonderful.
The Times
If you have 6 to 12-year-olds, and you don't know about David Tennant's readings of Cressida Cowell's How To Train Your Dragon series, you don't deserve to be a parent.
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.
The Times
'is not only funny, well written and thrilling, but also wise about what we owe those who love us.'
The Times
A delight for 8+
Amanda Craig, Times
'a hilarious and gripping adventure, beautifully paced and studded with great dramatic scenes.'
Times
Especially good... raises the series to classic status.
Daily Telegraph
Top stuff.
Financial Times
Cowell's loopy, scattershot imagination is as compelling as ever.
Amanda Craig, The Times
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.
Birmingham Post
A modern classic. Cowell is an effortlessly funny writer and is brimming with creativity. Highly recommended.
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.
telegraph.co.uk
The most inventive, entertaining and demanding contemporary children's epic
Daily Telegraph
Gripping adventure stories complete with quests and battles, a vividly imagined alternative world.
Financial Times
Cowell's loopy, scattershot imagination is as compelling as ever
Woman's Weekly
'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.'
Books For Keeps
Ceaselessly inventive... young readers are lucky to have her. *****
Daily Telegraph (Peter Florence)
The most inventive, entertaining and demanding contemporary children's epic.
Birmingham Post
Cowell is an effortlessly funny writer and is brimming with creativity...Highly recommended
Daily Telegraph
'If light amusement is required, Cressida Cowell's How to Break a Dragon's Heart delivers all it promises. There are lots of illustrations and a playfulness with language that will draw in even the most reluctant reader.'