Windows To The World

HOW TO TRAIN A DRAGON




Cressida Cowell


Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third is part of a group of  Viking boys of the Island of Berk, who is going through a coming of age ritual. This invokes catching a dragon which will be with you for many years into the future and then training it. Failure to accomplish either of these will result in exile banishment and worse- humiliation. Hiccup is the sons of the chief of the tribe and and has an even greater burden since he is small and gets picked on quite a bit.

Toothless

None the less he captures his dragon heroically but it turns out to be a very small dragon who hasn't any teeth . Naturally he is named Toothless. One of the things that distinguishes Hiccup from the others is that unbeknownst to many he can speak Dragonese. He has studied about Dragons for a long time and he knows a bit about them.

Fireworm.

One of the other boys, graphically named Snotlout has captured a Monstrous Nightmare dragon who is fierce indeed and he has named him Fireworm. Usually only sons of chiefs are allowed to have such fearsome dragons and Hiccup feels compelled to challenge Snotlout for the ownership of the beast. This small battle is put off until the dragons are tamed and trained.


On the day of the results of the training of the dragons  there is also a competition between similar aged boys and their dragons who come from the Meathead Islands. Before the competition gets going their is an awesome storm which results in bringing up some life from the bottom of the sea. Now the entire community is endangered.. Thus begins the heroic misadventures of Hiccup the Viking. This is a very enticing story about unlikely heroes and just as unlikely ales in an unpredictable world.

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