What is How To Train Your Dragon (book series)?
The '''How To Train Your Dragon''' books also called the Hiccup books are a series of [[Children's literature|children’s books]] by [[Cressida Cowell]]. They begin with How To Train Your Dragon and end with How To Fight a Dragon’s Fury. There are twelve of them. == Books in the Series == 1) How To Train Your Dragon 2) How To Be a Pirate 3) How To Speak Dragonese 4) How To Cheat a Dragon’s Curse 5) How To Twist a Dragon’s Tale 6) A Hero’s Guide To Deadly Dragons 7) How To Ride a Dragon’s Storm 8) How To Break a Dragon’s Heart 9) How To Steal a Dragon’s Sword 10) How To Seize a Dragon’s Jewel 11) How To Betray a Dragon’s Hero 12) How To Fight a Dragon’s Fury == Storyline == A [[Vikings|Viking]] child named Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third, whose father Stoick the Vast is leader of the tribe of the Hairy Hooligans, has to learn how to become a hero “the hard way”. Hiccup, with the help of his [[pet]] [[dragon]] Toothless and his friends Fishlegs and Camicazi has to save his home [[island]] called Berk (and the other islands of the [[Archipelago]]) from dangerous Dragons, [[Piracy|pirates]], [[Roman Empire|Romans]] and evil Vikings like Norbert the Nutjob and Alvin the Treacherous. Hiccup and his friends also have to stop Alvin the Treacherous (Hiccup’s [[archenemy]]) and the [[Dragon|Seadragon]] Furious from starting a war between humans and dragons. == Movie Adaptation == In 2010, [[DreamWorks Animation]] made the movie [[How to Train Your Dragon (movie)|How To Train Your Dragon]] based on the first book. The movie and its sequels are very different from the books. == Book to Movie Differences == In the first book, Hiccup is ten and a half years old though in the sixth book A Hero’s Guide to Deadly Dragons, Hiccup turns twelve (technically three because he is born in a [[Leap year]] on February 29th). Hiccup in the movies starts out as a teenager. The movies also make Toothless a dragon big enough to ride and who has teeth. The movies also made it so that none of the dragons talked and they had