How to Train Your Dragon: How To Train Your Dragon: Book 1 - Hardcover

Cowell, Cressida

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1444944355 ISBN 13: 9781444944358

Publisher: Hodder Children's Books, 2018

Synopsis

Review: The first in the successful series. perfect for tricky boy readers, as the action scenes are first-class. (The Sunday Telegraph); Mentioned in the 100 Best Children's Books Ever (Novels) (The Daily Telegraph); 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's Children's Books Editor); Filled with thrilling adventure and action-packed heroes (Charlotte Tarling, Year 6 Country Child); By turns hilarious and wise, it's never predictable, brilliantly illustrated and always delightful (The Times); Proper modern classics (Sunday Express); Hilarious (guardian.co.uk); A laugh out loud romp of a Viking adventure (Observer); The start of the most original series for kids in ages. Funny, clever and great for the whole family to share (Dundee Courier); Her genuinely fierce, intelligent and scary dragons nearly steal the show, but Hiccup and his diminutive sidekick ultimately come out on top, both displaying a proper hero's mix of quick wit, courage and loyalty (Kirkus) / Book Description: WELCOME TO THE BOOK THAT STARTED IT ALL. now a beautiful hardback with colour illustrations and all 48 collector cards. The perfect gift for any How to Train Your Dragon fan. / About the Author: Cressida Cowell is the author and the illustrator of the bestselling How to Train Your Dragon and The Wizards of Once book series, and the author of the Emily Brown picture books, illustrated by Neal Layton. How to Train Your Dragon has sold over 8 million books worldwide in 38 languages. It is also an award-winning DreamWorks film series, and a TV series shown on Netflix and CBBC. The first book in Cressida's new series, The Wizards of Once (also signed by DreamWorks), is a number one bestseller. 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,the 2017 Ruth Rendell Award for Championing Literacy, the Hay Festival Medal for Fiction, and Philosophy Now magazine's 2015 Award for Contributions in the Fight Against Stupidity. She grew up in London and on a small, uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland and she now lives in Hammersmith with her husband, three children and a dog called Pigeon.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1444944355
• ISBN 13: 9781444944358
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240