by Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III; translated from the Old Norse by Cressida CowellHow to Train Your Dragon (The Heroic Misadventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III #1)
Cressida Cowell
CONTENTS
A Note from the Author ........... l
1. First Catch Your Dragon. ...... 2
2. Inside the Dragon Nursery 14
3. Heroes or Exiles ............................................. 31
4. How to Train Your Dragon 46
5. A Chat with Old Wrinkly, 6l
6. Meanwhile, Deep in the Ocean ........ 67
7. Toothless Wakes Up 69
8. Training Your Dragon the Hard Way, 81
9. Fear, Vanity, Revenge, and Silly Jokes 89
10. Thor'sday Thursday 103
11. Thor is Angry 127
12. The Green Death.............................................145
13. When yelling doesn't.........................................156
14. The fiendishly clever plan................................. 166
15. The Battle at Death's Head Headland 177
16. The Fiendishly Clever Plan Goes Wrong ............... l82
17. In the Mouth of the Dragon................................ 186
18. The Extraordinary Bravery of Toothless ... 190
19. Hiccup the Useful, 200
20. Epilogue by the Author 211
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[Map: Isle of Berk]
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[Map: Meathead islands ]
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A Note from the Author
There were dragons when I was a boy.
There were great, grim, sky dragons that nested on the cliff tops like gigantic scary birds. Little, brown, scuttly dragons that hunted down the mice and rats in well-organized packs. Preposterously huge Sea Dragons that were twenty times as big as the Big Blue Whale and who killed for the fun of it.