How to Train Your Dragon (Book)
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(UK) Hodder Children's Books |
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1. How to Train Your Dragon
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Hiccup, Toothless, Stoick the Vast, Valhallarama, Snotface Snotlout |
This is about the book. You maybe are looking for the movie or website.
How to Train Your Dragon is the first book in the series by Cressida Cowell. The book is about the adventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, the 10 1/2 year old son of Stoick the Vast, a Viking chief. On the Island of Berk, a group of young boys from the Hairy Hooligans are instructed 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, and those who accomplish the mission are initiated into the tribe as full members.
Plot
10 boys of the Hooligan Tribe intend to become full members of the Hooligan Tribe by passing the Dragon Initation Programme. 2 boys, Hiccup, son of the Chief Stoick the Vast and Fishlegs, Hiccup's friend who has a squint and allergy to reptiles, are hasty about it.
Everyone else is big, tough and manly like Vikings should be, but Hiccup and Fishlegs are skinny.
Gobber the Belch, the soldier in charge of Initation leads the Vikings-to-be to Wild Dragon Cliff, where they have to complete the first part of the Dragon Iniation Programme: catching their own Dragon. Fishlegs awakes all the young dragons when he tries to get a deadly nadder. In a rush to escape, Hiccup gives Fishlegs his basic run and runs back to grab a different dragon. Gobber the Belch saves the boys from attacking dragons, but scolds them later.
Hiccup finds out he stole a tiny common or garden, and Snotlout names the little dragon Toothless, as a joke. Toothless is finally trained, after many months, when Hiccup tells him jokes. During Thor's Day Thursday, none of the boys pass the test required to join the Hairy Hooligans or Meatheads. This is due to Toothless making fun of Fireworm, Snotlout's Monstrous Nightmere, who wreaks havock on the whole holiday. Stoick is forced to banish Hiccup and the rest of the boys.
During the night, a storm roused by Thor washes two sea serpents onto the beaches of Berk. While the adult Hooligans and Meatheads argue about what to do, Thuggery, heir to the Meatheads, tells Hiccup to think of a plan. Hiccup finally comes up with a 'fiendishly clever plan': annoy the dragons, lead them to each other, and let them kill themselves. The plan kills one of the seamonsters, Purple Death, but the Green Death survives and chases Hiccup. Hiccup is swallowed but kills the Green Death from the inside by plugging its fire holes. Hiccup is then taken out of the Green Death by Toothless, the only dragon that didn't abandon his master.
Due to this heroic action, all of the boys are allowed to join the tribes after all.
