How to Twist a Dragon's Tale
How to Train Your Dragon Series
Author: Cressida Cowell
Book 5 in the How to Train Your Dragon series
Pages: 246
Published: 2007
Age: 8+
Someone has stolen the Fire Egg. Now the Volcano on Volcano Island is active and the tremors are hatching the eggs of the Exterminator dragons! Can Hiccup return the Fire Egg to the Volcano, stop the Volcano from erupting, AND save the Tribes from being wiped out by the terrible sword-claws of the Exterminators?
About the How to Train Your Dragon Series
Books in series order
- 1.How to Train Your Dragon(2003)
- 2.How to Be a Pirate(2004)
- 3.How to Speak Dragonese(2005)
- 4.How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse(2006)
- 5.How to Twist a Dragon's Tale(2007)
- 6.A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons(2008)
- 7.How to Ride a Dragon's Storm(2008)
- 8.How to Break a Dragon's Heart(2009)
- 9.How to Steal a Dragon's Sword(2011)
- 10.How to Seize a Dragon's Jewel(2012)
- 11.How to Betray a Dragon's Hero(2014)
- 12.How to Fight a Dragon's Fury(2015)
- +The Day of the Dreader(2012)
- +The Incomplete Book of Dragons(2014)
Reading age: 7+ years
I was not the sort of boy who could train a dragon with a mere lifting of an eyebrow. I was not a natural at the Heroism business. I had to work at it. This is the story of becoming a Hero the Hard Way.
Hiccup tackles the chore of training the stubborn creature, which leads to some fresh, funny dialogue between the two (Hiccup has the rare ability to speak "Dragonese"). Short chapters, clever slapstick, kid-pleasing character names (Fishlegs, Dogsbreath, and the Duhbrain, to name a few) and goofy, childlike drawings will keep even reluctant readers turning pages and chuckling as they go.