How to be a Pirate - Softcover

Cowell, Cressida

4.09

18,800 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340881461 ISBN 13: 9780340881460

Publisher: Hodder Children's Books, 2004

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Read the original books before you see the How to Train Your Dragon film!

THE STORY CONTINUES in the second volume of Hiccup's How to Train Your Dragon memoirs ...

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter, a dragon-whisperer and the greatest Viking Hero who ever lived. But it wasn't always like that. Hiccup's memoirs look back to when Hiccup was just an ordinary boy, and finding it very hard to be a Hero.

Can Hiccup find Grimbeard the Ghastly's treasure before Alvin the Treacherous gets his sneaky hands on it? And if Hiccup opens a box that says DO NOT OPEN, will he live to tell the tale?

How to Train Your Dragon is soon to be a DreamWorks film starring Gerrard Butler, America Ferrera and Jonah Hill, out in March 2010 adapted from the best selling How to Train Your Dragon series by Cressida Cowell.

Read the rest of Hiccup's exploits in the How to Train Your Dragon series in How to Train Your Dragon, 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, and How to Break a Dragon's Heart.

Check out the all-new Hiccup website at www.howtotrainyourdragonbooks.com It's the place to go 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!

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Review:

This is a maniacally crazy story liberally spattered with appropriately riotous illustrations, lists and maps (Books For Keeps)

It's a wonderfully vibrant story, illustrated with the author's hilarious drawings, and told with a delightfully gobby sense of humour (Books Quarterly (Waterstones))

Cowell is a new star in children's fiction (The Times)

Great jokes and suberb characters will appeal to boys and girls alike (With Kids)

Very funny indeed (Maidenhead Advertiser)

'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 children's editor)

Witty writing and funny drawings and notes ensure that this clever Viking story keeps its readers laughing (Junior Education)

A wonderful adventure (The School Librarian)

PRAISE FOR HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON:

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.'

(Nicolette Jones, The Sunday Times)

A wonderfully wittily written and illustrated story. (Waterstones Quarterly Magazine)

From the Publisher:

Perfect for boys, with lots of humour, dragons, bloodshed, gob and battles.Following in the footsteps of Lauren Child with her Clarice books, developing picture book character with real potential to take on a life of his own and bring him to a wider, broader audience, by an author who can work brilliantly on a variety of levels.The first Hiccup novel was an international success - seven sub-rights deals to date, including the US - plus over 16,500 copies sold in first month of publication!

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