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How to Train Your Dragon is a 2003 children's novel by British author Cressida Cowell, and published by Hodder Children's Books. In the United States this series is published by Little, Brown and Company.
Cowell's books star a young Viking named Hiccup. Cowell first introduced Hiccup in the picture book Hiccup the Seasick Viking in 2000 (US). The titles published are:
1.How to Train Your Dragon (2003)
2.How to Be a Pirate (2004)
3.How to Speak Dragonese (2005)
4.How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse (2006)
5.How to Twist a Dragon's Tale (2007)
6.A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons (2008)
7.How to Ride a Dragon's Storm (2008)
8.How to Break a Dragon's Heart (2009)
Cowell has also "translated" one book written by his dragon character, Toothless: 1.How to Train Your Viking (2006)
The book is about the adventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, The eleven-year-old son of a Viking chief, who must capture a dragon for a rite of passage. Set on the Island of Berk, a group of 10 youths of the Hooligan tribe are being led by "Gobber the Belch" to perform their first military operation; to catch their own dragon. Those who are not able to catch and train a dragon are exiled from the tribe. This military operation has to be done by every Hooligan.
At the eastern coast of the Isle of Berk is an area known as "Wild Dragon Cliff" and among the youths is Hiccup himself, his friend Fishlegs, Tuffnut Jr., Speedifist, Wartihog, Clueless and both of Hiccup's enemies; Snotlout and Dogsbreath the Duhbrain. Since the early morning, Hiccup had felt ill and felt no better in this snowy area, but Gobber placed Hiccup in charge regardless, much to the dismay of Snotlout and Dogsbreath who refer to Hiccup as "Hiccup the Useless". By using their dragon baskets, each enter the cave to catch their Dragon.
Hiccup manages to get a Common or Garden Dragon and is forced to rush out of the cave because Fishleg's allergies caused him to sneeze. His sneeze caused one of the dragons to wake up.However, Hiccup's best friend, Fishlegs, escapes without a dragon. Hiccup doesn't want his friend to be exiled and thus hands him his dragon and runs back in to get another.
With all the dragons awakening, they have no other option but to jump off the cliff and into the sea. On returning to the village, Hiccup notices his dragon is incredibly small. Gobber advises the youths to train their Dragons by using the How To Train Your Dragon book from the Hooligan Library.
Unfortunately, the book has only a single page instructing you to "yell at it; the louder the better." This of course doesn't help at all for Hiccup (he can barely yell), and Hiccup has to find out how to train his dragon on his own. He begins by yelling at it, this soon fails, he then completed a list of supposed characteristics of Dragons which can be used in training. The list fails and, despite the insistence by Fishlegs that it will not work, he resorts to pampering his Dragon.
After a run in with his father's Dragons Hiccup brings Toothless down to the beach to practice Hunting with Horrorcow (Fishleg's dragon). At first Toothless refuses to budge and constantly complains, Hiccup takes out his list yet again and runs through the drills. After crossing out all the options on the list he resorts to Jokes and Riddles Talk, marked, Only if Desperate!. Toothless agrees to a deal. This includes one joke for every fish caught by Toothless.
Later on Thor's Thursday, during the final part of the rite of passage, Toothless offends Fireworm(Snotlout's Dragon) and there is a fight between all of the dragons. This means that they have all failed and will be exiled, however because there is a huge storm, Stoick the Vast (the Hooligan Chief, and Hiccup's father) allows them one last night on the island. During the storm two Sea Dragons are washed up on the shore of the island. The bigger one eats the smaller one, and soon a viking named Badbreath the Gruff discovers them.
Finding that the H.T.T.Y.D. Book's advice, along with Gobber's Viking Strength is useless, the Vikings all look to Hiccup for advice, on the sole condition that the boys are no longer exiles. Hiccup goes to speak with the Dragon, who calls himself the Green Death. The Monster states he is peaceful, but will kill the Vikings and the Dragons, because since he will be eaten by worms when he dies, a Singing Supper as he puts it, he decides everyone else should be eaten.
When Hiccup tells the Elders, they all squabble and fight with each other over what to do. Hiccup decides to use this to gather the boys and their Dragons together to come up with a plan; The Dragons will carry home-made feather bombs, and drop them on the Green Death to give him an asthma attack. Toothless ,however, decides not to go along with this, as he thinks the plan is suicide. The other Dragons agree, but, they decide to run if they may lose.
The plan so far seems to have worked. A Purple Sea Dragon the boys discovered earlier, and have used the same tactic on, goes to kill the Green Death. The Green Death however wins, but is still dying. In an act of revenge, he swallows Hiccup whole, but, he lands on a spear jammed in the Monster's throat. When Toothless sees that all the Wild and Domestic Dragons have left, he concludes Hiccup is his only family left and saves him by making the Death sneeze. Before Hiccup is sneezed out, he jams his helmet into a fire-producing hole.
When the Death tries to breathe fire, a build-up happens and he explodes to death. A singing sound is then heard.
Three days pass and Hiccup wakes up from a coma, to find that Toothless had 'died' from his wounds. Hiccup correctly guesses he is in a coma, and goes to save him from having a traditional Viking Funeral, which involves being burnt. Because of his bravery, Stoick proudly calls his son, Hiccup the Useful. [1]
This book, the sequel to How To Train Your Dragon is about how Hiccup and Fishlegs find a coffin out at sea. Later, when they open it, they find out that it contains a living man, soon to become Hiccup's worst enemy, a man named Alvin the Treacherous. He tells them of how he found the coffin when he was farming, and when he opened it, it snapped his hand off. He shows the Vikings that he has a hook to replace it. He then tells them of a riddle that shows where to find the treasure of Grimbeard the Ghastly, the world's greatest pirate and Hiccup's great-great grandfather.
The Vikings go to the island mentioned in the riddle, the island of the Skullions, and find a small chest filled with treasure. However, Grimbeard has booby-trapped the chest with a smell that would wake up all of the Skullions on the island, who are huge dragons that have no ears or eyes, but have an excellent sense of smell. Hiccup is nearly killed by one, but is saved by his father. They all run to the ship with the treasure and sail away happily. But, the Vikings begin fighting over the treasure. As they fight, they are boarded by cannibalistic Vikings. The ship sinks shortly after they board and everyone abandons it, everyone except for Hiccup, Fishlegs, Alvin and Toothless. The ship sinks almost immediately to the bottom of the sea, and hits the bottom. An air pocket is trapped under the capsized ship, and Toothless finds a way out into an underwater cavern.
The pocket of air is running out, and at the last second they escape into an underwater cavern, filled with air. They walk around for a little and then Toothless finds a door. Alvin quickly takes control, threatening Hiccup with death if he doesn't open the door. Hiccup does, and they enter a cavern, filed with gold and jewels. Alvin turns on Hiccup and tries to kill him. Toothless brings Hiccup a battered sword and Hiccup discovers he is left-handed. But in the middle of the battle, Alvin steps on a pile of treaure that rears up, and grabs him.
Hiccup discovers that there is enormous Mounstrous Strangulator in the cave, an octopus-like creature that is related to snakes, octopuses, and dragons. Alvin is quickly eaten and then Hiccup tricks the Mounstrous Strangulator into poisoning itself. They escape the cave, but Hiccup decides that the world wasn't ready for the treasure. They soon surface with the aid of Toothless, and the book ends with Hiccup and Toothless and Fishlegs all getting back to the village. Everything ends well. In the epilogue, Hiccup tells us that he unscrewed a little knob in the sword that he used to fight Alvin and out popped the last will and testament of Grimbeard the Ghastly.
The third book in the series. This book is about Hiccup going fishing with Fishlegs (his best friend) intending to raid a ship for their latest pirate lesson. But because Fishlegs is frightened of sharkworm dragons and can't see through the fog, they raid a Roman ship by accident. While on board, Hiccup rescues the self-described nanodragon god Ziggerastica and they overhear the Roman's plan: They intend to kidnap the heirs of two Viking tribes so they can steal every dragon in the isle of Berk while the tribes are fighting. Hiccup's father doesn't believe him and soon the Romans kidnap him and Fishlegs and take them to their Fort Sinister. There they discover Alvin the Treacherous working with the Romans as well as trying to learn Dragonese. Hiccup tricks the Romans into keeping them alive until the day they are supposed to be killed by gladiators. Until then, they are put in a cell, where they meet Camicazi, the wild female heir to the Bog-Burglars Viking tribe. Hiccup calls on Ziggerstica to form a plan to rescue the three of them and they are taken to the arena. Hiccup, Camicazi and Toothless struggle against shark-like dragons until Hiccup launches his plan and makes the spectators believe he is Thor, with the help of tiny dragons propelling him in the air, and orders them to leave the Viking islands forever. He and his friends escape to find the search parties from both tribes, and the two make a sort of peace.
However, it is revealed at the end that one of the heroes was stung by a venomous dragon, hinting at the book "How To Cheat a Dragon's Curse."
This was a book written for World Book Day, from the point of view of Toothless the dragon.
Toothless was the truly unremarkable dragon of the truly extraordinary Viking Hero, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III. But it wasn't always like that. There was a time when Hiccup was finding it hard to be a Hero, while Toothless was finding it even harder to be a Hero's dragon. Being disobedient and cheeky is not as easy as it looks.
This book is the fourth in the series. In this story, Hiccup and Camicazi are forced to go on a daring adventure to save Fishlegs, who would appear to be suffering from Vorpentitis. The only cure for Vorpentitis is the potato, and the nearest one is owned by Norbert the Nutjob, Chief of the Hysterics tribe and is in a box of ice with an arrow in it. But the potato is eaten by a Doomfang, a huge underwater dragon who had Vorpentitis too. Hiccup arrives home without the potato and only the arrow. Once Hiccup gets back, he realized that Fishlegs is not suffering from Vorpentitis, but he is. He desperately mutters "OOOOOOOT ME!" a few times before Fishlegs gets what he means. Fishlegs shot the arrow that had been soaking in the potato all of those years (with great difficulty because Stoick was trying to block him) and hit Hiccup's foot. Hiccup then recovered.
The fifth book in the series. The story begins with the children on a herding exercise for their Pirate Training Program. Soon, because of Toothless, it all goes amiss, but they are soon distracted by a huge fire rolling down the mountainside. The fire is discovered to be the doing of the Extermintators, big, evil, fire dragons. While most of the kids escape on Gobber's riding dragon, Goliath, Hiccup and Gobber are left to defend themselves, because Goliath is killed by the Exterminators. Hiccup and Gobber are saved by a mysterious man in a fireproof suit, whom they at first believe to be a man from the treacherous Lava-Lout tribe. The man soon reveals himself to be Humongously Hotshot, one of the greatest heroes on the planet. Although Hiccup's father, Stoick, begins to regard Hotshot with jealousy, he hires him as Hiccup's "Bardiguard". After that, Hotshot saves Hiccup from several deadly situations, which later are revealed to be his own doing. Later on at night, Hiccup wakes up to Hotshot looming over him with his swords, arguing with himself whether or not to kill Hiccup. He ultimately decides not to, and Hiccup asks him what he's doing. Hotshot begins to tell Hiccup his story, of how he fell in love with a Viking woman, but her father wanted her to marry someone clever. The woman's father sent Hotshot on a quest to find, and bring back, the Firestone. Hotshot traveled to the volcano where the Firestone was hidden, but he was captured soon after by the Lava Louts. After a few weeks, he becomes friends with a jail keeper named Terrific Al. He asks Terrific Al to bring a half of the ruby heart to his love because she vowed to save him if she received the ruby heart. Terrific Al disappears for fifteen years and comes back to tell Humongous Hotshot that his love threw the heart out of the window and said she married somebody else who already brought back the Firestone. The woman happens to be Hiccup's mother, who believed that Humongous was dead. Humongous vows to Terrific Al (who myseriously has lost a hand, half a leg, an eye and all of his hair) that he will kill Hiccup. After Hotshot finishes his story Hiccup figures this out. Hiccup, Fishlegs, Hotshot and Camicazi travel to lava-lout to put the fire stone inside the mountain and are attacked by Alvin and Exterminators. Hiccup manages to put the stone into the volcano. But on contact with the lava the fire stone hatches into a fire dragon. The dragon kills all the Exterminators. Hiccup and his riding dragon, Windwalker, run down the island away from lava and fall into the sea. Hiccup's father and others rescue him and everything works out well. In the epilogue Hiccup tells us that Windwalker turns out to be his faithful flying dragon.
This is the Sixth book in the series and the only one not to have How to in its title. Hiccup is lost in the Library Labyrinth and the Driller Dragons and Madguts the Murderous are on the prowl, all because of a book! Hiccup's birthday is not going to be the quiet affair he might have hoped for. This book is different from its predecessors as it is the first Hardback book in the series and it contains an open-up map of the Barbaric Archipelago, a Dragonese Dictionary in the back, Dragon Profiles and "Conversations with Toothless". This story is about a burglary competition between the Bog-Burglars and the Hairy Hooligans. Stoick was going to show Big-Boobied Bertha How to train your Dragon(the only book allowed on The Isle of Berk) but, Toothless had eaten Stoick's new throne and the copy of How to Train Your Dragon. Hiccup, Camicazi and Fishlegs went on an adventure to the Island of Forget Me, to go to the Meathead Public Library, but the Hairy Scary Librarian catches them stealing a 2nd Edition of How To Train Your Dragon. Hiccup Finds a book that was written by Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the II called A Hero's Guide To Deadly Dragons which was exactly the same title of Hiccups hand-written book which Stoick had confiscated in the beginning. Hiccup keeps this book and takes it back to The Isle Of Berk. Meanwhile, Madguts The Murderous visits Bertha for stealing his Stealth Dragon and the Hairy Scary Librarian shoots Stoick with a northbow but Hiccup's handwritten book saves Stoick's life and Hiccup, Fishlegs and Camicazi come from the sky and squash the Librarian flat with the Stealth Dragon. Hiccup persuades Stoick how useful books are and books are unbanned by order of The Thing.
This is the seventh book in the series. The story starts at the beach near the Murderous Mountains. There is a swimming race, and all the warriors from the tribes of Hooligan, Bog-Burglar and Murderous are competing in a swimming race. It is an annual race to celebrate the "Saga of Grimbeard The Ghastly and the Swimming Race". The winner is the Warrior who returns back last, he gets one request from the losing chiefs. Unfortunately, Big-Boobied Bertha and Stoick The Vast are tricked into returninng to the beach three minutes and twenty-two seconds after the race has started. Hiccup, Fishlegs, Camicazi and the dragons, Toothless and the Stormfly are kidnapped by Madguts the Murderous, Norbert the Nutjob and Gumboil, Madguts' personal assistant and taken to America on the "American Dream II". On the way, they encounter Polar-serpents who try to eat them, but then end up waking a leviathorgan dragon. It is kept from attacking the ship by a machine that emits a very loud squeaking noise. But humans and smaller dragons cannot hear it. Hiccup falls down the Slave-Hatch and is branded with the Slavemark. Then the slaves escape. But then the machine breaks. Back on Murderous Mountains, Madguts is going to sacrifice Bertha and Stoick who are under temporary custody of Madguts, who was dropped off the ship 3 days after Hiccup was kidnapped, but they will be killed if Hiccup and co. do not return to the beach within 3 months, 5 days and six hours. Suddenly, the dragon, a Leviathorgan, bursts out of the water and tries to eat the boat but is killed by a lightning bolt that went through Norbert's axe, down the mast and into the fire-holes of the Leviathorgan. The boat sinks but Hiccup, Fishlegs, Camicazi, Toothless and the Stormfly are saved by the slaves in boats. And they travel back to Murderous Mountains and save Stoick and Bertha 2 minutes before they would be sacrificed to Sky Dragons. Because they are the last people back they tell Madguts to sing a love song at the next Thing while dressed up as an "ickle pretty shepherdess".
This is the eighth book in the series. When Fishlegs is caught sending illegal love poems to the daughter of Ug the Uglithug, Hiccup and Fishlegs must complete the Impossible Task or else face death at the hands of the Berserks.Meanwhile, Alvin the Treacherous's mother has been imprisoned deep in the Berserk forest for years holding a dark secret that reveals the truth about the Lost Throne of the Archipelago, as well as some shocking truths about Hiccup's past. Hiccup must battle Berserks, outwit Alvin the Treacherous (again), and save Fishlegs from being fed to the Beast.
The rights to the How to Train Your Dragon film have been purchased by DreamWorks, where Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois (the directors of Lilo and Stitch) will direct the upcoming animated feature. It is scheduled for release March 26, 2010.[2] See the movie trailers at Apple.
Gerard Butler will play Stoik the Vast[3] (the hero Hiccup's father), and Craig Ferguson will play Gobber the Belch (an antagonistic Viking). [4]
Hiccup, (the hero) has a best friend from the book, Fishlegs, who has been replaced by a "determined" blond girl named Astrid (voiced by America Ferrara).
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