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Pirate FictionDragon Fiction

How to Train Your Dragon

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  • 2003 first published
  • 223 pages
  • ★ 4.1 (29 ratings)
  • 35 editions
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Published in 2003, How to Train Your Dragon is a pirate adventure and dragon fantasy novel by Cressida Cowell. Characters include Toothless, Hiccup and Fishlegs. Key subjects include vikings, dragons, initiation rites and vikingos.

Open Library readers give it an average of 4.1 out of 5 from 29 ratings, and 416 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 35 editions across 6 languages. It appeared on the New York Times Series Books bestseller list in 2010.

At about 223 pages, most readers finish it in 4–5 hours.

About How to Train Your Dragon

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. In fact, in the beginning, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was the most put upon Viking you'd ever seen. Not loud enough to make himself heard at dinner with his father, Stoick the Vast; not hard enough to beat his chief rival, Snotlout, at Bashyball, the number one school sport and CERTAINLY not stupid enough to go into a cave full of dragons to find a pet... It's time for Hiccup to learn how to be a Hero.
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Awards & lists

  • 📰New York Times bestseller list — Series Books, 2010

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Characters

  • Toothless
  • Hiccup
  • Fishlegs
  • Snoutlout
  • Stoick
  • Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III
  • Hiccup Horrendous Haddock The Third

Subjects

  • Humorous stories
  • Vikings
  • Dragons
  • Humorous fiction
  • Initiation rites
  • Child and youth fiction
  • Children's fiction
  • Adventure and adventurers
  • Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
  • Vikingos
  • Novela juvenil
  • Dragones
  • Humorismo inglés
  • Traducciones al español
  • Fantasy
  • III Haddock, Hiccup Horrendous

Quick answers

Who wrote How to Train Your Dragon?

How to Train Your Dragon was written by Cressida Cowell and first published in 2003.

What genre is How to Train Your Dragon?

It is usually shelved as Pirate Fiction and Dragon Fiction.

How long is How to Train Your Dragon?

The median edition has 223 pages, about 4–5 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to How to Train Your Dragon?

Readers who like it often enjoy The Hunters, Airborn and El galeón de los Gatos Piratas.

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