Hiccup: The Viking Who Was Seasick (2000, UK) / Hiccup: The Seasick Viking (2000, US), released on audio under the title How to Be a VikingĭreamWorks also published 6 early reader books based on the movies these were not written by Cressida Cowell.The Incomplete Book of Dragons: A Guide to Dragon Species (2014, UK) / The Complete Book of Dragons: A Guide to Dragon Species (2014, US).How To Train Your Viking, by “Toothless the Dragon” (2006).All the books have titles based around an instruction guide. The first book was published in 2003, and the last book was released in 2015. The books have subsequently been adapted into a media franchise consisting of three animated feature films, several television series and other media, all produced by DreamWorks Animation.Ĭowell has published twelve full novels, based around the adventures of a young Viking named Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third. By 2015, the series had sold more than seven million copies around the world. The first book was published in 2003 and the 12th and final one in 2015. The books were published by Hodder Children's Books in the UK and by Little, Brown and Company in the US.

The books are set in a fictional Viking world, and focus on the experiences of protagonist Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third, as he overcomes obstacles on his journey of 'becoming a hero, the hard way'.

(Sept.How to Train Your Dragon is a series of children's books written by British author Cressida Cowell. Cowell gives practical advice about facing fears, with an all-too-human problem-throwing up-as the great equalizer. His short red hair matches his father's scraggly beard, but his blue helmet has stumpy, blunt horns. In the loose watercolors, in which smiling sea creatures ride roiling waves, Hiccup is a gentler figure. That's what makes them so brave.'' Cowell (Little Bo Peep's Library Book) describes Vikings as ''enormous, roaring thieves with bushy mustaches who sailed all over the world and took whatever they wanted.'' She downplays the pillaging (which could compromise the heroism) and pictures Stoick as a broad-bellied, guffawing fellow with curling horns on his pointed helmet. Hiccup sees that his peers get scared, ''but they get over it. Their squiggly frowns betray their nausea, and they lean over the side of the bucking ship (with their backs politely to the reader). His linebacker-size father, known as Stoick the Vast, cheerfully scoffs, ''Vikings don't get frightened.'' Hiccup reluctantly joins a crew and, as the sea grows wilder, he turns green and gets seasick ''all over Stoick's feet.'' However, the other sailors feel queasy, too.

Hiccup, a diminutive Viking boy, dreads rough stuff.

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