How to Train Your Dragon: How to Speak Dragonese

by Cressida Cowell

Book Overview

Packed with energetic black-and-white drawings and plenty of action, this book tells the boisterous tale of a young heir to a Viking chiefdom who must hunt down the fiercest dragon in the land, but... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316156000
• ISBN13: 9780316156004
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6

Customer Reviews

Book Was Not as Described

I was so excited to give my nephew this book as he adores the series (as did my son). However, the book is in terrible condition. The corners are beat up beyond repair, and I would not even consider this book in fair condition. It said "good" condition and that's what I expected, but not what I received.

Adventure Lovers!

My 7 year old absolutely loves this series and has been tearing through them with reckless abandon. Be warned your child may walk around speaking dragonese for quite some time. Which isn't annoying, at all.....

Awesome Book!!!Two Thubs WAY UP!!!!!!!!

I liked How to Speak Dragonese for several reasons. It had lots of humor, with that little side of fantasy(both my favorite genres!)I didn't really dislike anything in this book, it was SO GOOD! I think this because whenever there was a "The End," or "And they lived happily ever after," another challenge popped up for the main characters within the next few pages. This creates lots of suspense! The setting in this book is in the past. They travel by non-motor boat and balloon, not by cars, planes, and steam boats. Once you start reading this, though, you can easily tell that it takes place in the past. It takes mostly takes place in the Barbaric Archipelago, but it also takes place a little in the Sea like a Woden's Bathtub, and the Isle of Berk. Here's the basic outline of the plot: Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third has his dragon, Toothless, stolen by the Roman Empire! He tries to send a search party for Toothless, but before he can, the Romans take him and Fishlegs(Hiccup's best friend)to the Roman Empire,too! They both have to get out of the Empire without getting eaten by dragons! The main characters in thsi book are: Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third: Hiccup never wants to give up; he is always trying his best in life. He is also somewhat funny. Fishlegs: Fishlegs is Hiccup's best friend, but he is VERY clumsy, not very good at things, allergic to practically anything, and very scared. Camicazi: Camicazi thinks she is always better then boys(she is a Bog Buglar, and all Bog Burglars are girls,) an aggressive sword fighter, nad sometimes odd. Toothless the Dragon: Toothless is a VERY funny and unique dragon. this is becaouse he is so samll, and he has no fangs(that is why he is called Toothless.) He is Hiccup's dragon. I would recommend How to Speak Dragonese to anyone who likes fantasy and/or adventure. If you like those genres, and you start this book, you wont be able to put it down!(At least I wasn't!) HAPPY READING!!!! :);)

Quick, funny read.

My 9 year old loved this book and the other two by Hiccup. He couldn't put them down and finished them in no time.

How to speak dragonese

My 9yr. old loved this book. He says it has lots of adventure, not a dull moment and you will love the ending. Any book that can keep a child reading on there own is top notch with me.

How to Speak Dragonese (Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III)

It's always hard to find a book that will keep my 8yrs interested. But from the first chapter to the last he enjoyed the story. The characters and their antics he said where great. He asked me to order the other books in the group even before he finished this one.

A delightful and fun adventure

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III's loyal dragon Toothless has been captured, and it's up to Hiccup to prove himself a true Viking hero and rescue him. Both newcomers and prior fans of Hiccup will find this latest saga, 'translated from the Old Norse', to be a delightful and fun adventure.