How to Train Your Dragon (series)

How to Train Your Dragon is a series of children's novels by Cressida Cowell and published by Hodder Children's Books in Britain and Little, Brown and Company in the United States.

The series centers on a young Viking named Hiccup, a member of the Hairy Hooligans. The books follow Hiccup and his friends in their many adventures with dragons.

There are eleven novels currently in the series. The first, How to Train Your Dragon, was released in 2003. The most recent, How to Betray a Dragon's Hero, was released in 2013.

In addition to the eleven books that make up the main series, Cowell has released several companion books, including How to Train Your Viking (2006), which is told from the perspective of Toothless, Hiccup's dragon.

The twelfth and final book is scheduled to be released in November of 2015.

How to Train Your Dragon
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...

How to Be a Pirate
Hopeless at advanced rudery, awful at bad spelling and truly pathetic at spitting, Hiccup blunders his way through the Pirate Training Programme and unsuccessfully attempts to seek out Grimbeard the Ghastly’s treasure - not exactly the skills needed to be a great Viking Chieftain!

How to Speak Dragonese
Climbing on to a Roman Dragon Rustling ship by mistake in your first "Boarding an Enemy Ship" is bad enough. But to then discover that Alvin the Treacherous is also on board proves to Hiccup he couldn't have been more wrong, especially when he steals his copy of How to Speak Dragonese. Can Hiccup save the dragons and the day?

How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse
Fishlegs has been struck with deadly Vorpentitis. The only cure is rare and almost impossible to find… a potato. He’ll have to dodge Sharkworms, battle Doomfangs and outwit crazy Hooligans if he’s going to be a Hero… again.

How to Twist a Dragon's Tale
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?

A Hero's Guid to Deadly Dragons
Delve into this special volume of Hiccups memoirs to find a brand new exciting adventure, a detailed map of the Archipelago and lots more dragon profiles! Also contains a comprehensive Dragonese Dictionary for those who'd like to dragon-whisper as well as the dragon-whisperer himself.

How to Ride a Dragon's Storm
Hiccup has three months, five days and six hours to discover America, get back to Berk, save his father, battle Polarserpents, AND win the annual Inter-Tribal Friendly Swimming Race. Can he do it? (Tick-tock-tick-tock-tick-tock) Find out in this brand new Hiccup adventure bursting with swash-buckling adventure, mad-cap humour, and lots more deadly dragons ..

How to Break a Dragon's Heart
When Fishlegs is caught sending illegal love poems to the daughter of Ug the Uglythug, Hiccup and Fishlegs must complete the Impossible Task or else face death at the hands of the Berserks.

Meanwhile, deep in the Berserk forest, there lies a prisoner holding a dark secret that reveals the truth about the Lost Throne of the Archipelago, as well as some shocking truths about Hiccup's past.

Hiccup must battle Berserks, outwit Alvin the Treacherous (again), and save Fishlegs from being fed to the Beast. What's a Hero to do ...?

How to Steal a Dragon's Sword
Bad times have come to the Archipelago. Ever since the woods of Berserk burned down, it is almost as if the world is cursed... Dragons are starting to revolt against their Masters. Old Wrinkly is missing, the waters have risen, flooding fields and washing whole villages away. But worse still, the wicked witch Excellinor has returned. And she wants Hiccup`s sword...

Can Hiccup hold on to his sword, find Old Wrinkly AND stop the witch revealing that he has the Slavemark?

How to Seize a Dragon's Jewel
The story continues in the tenth volume of Hiccup's How to Train Your Dragon memoirs. When we last left Hiccup things were getting very dark indeed. The Dragon Rebellion has begun. Snotlout is the new Chief of the Hooligan Tribe. Stoick has been banished and given the Slavemark. And Alvin the Treacherous has EIGHT of the King's Lost Things, and has been proclaimed the new King of the Wilderwest ...

But what can Hiccup do, now all alone and in exile, hunted by both humans and dragons? Can he find the Dragon Jewel, mankind's last and only hope? And if he does, what will he do with it?

How to Betray a Dragon's Hero
In this penultimate book in the How to Train Your Dragon series, Hiccup has one last hurdle before the final battle can begin ...

High up in the treacherous mists of the Murderous Mountains, Hiccup and the Company of the Dragonmark are in hiding. The witch's Spydragons are guarding the shores of Tomorrow - but Hiccup is determined to become King of the Wilderwest. Can Hiccup dodge the dragons and steal the King's Things back from Alvin before the Doomsday of Yule? And is there a traitor in Hiccup's camp who in the end will betray them all?

How to Fight a Dragon's Fury
The Doomsday of Yule has arrived, and the future of dragonkind lies in the hands of one boy with nothing to show, but everything to fight for. Hiccup's quest is clear... But can he end the rebellion? Can he prove himself to be king? Can he save the dragons? The stakes have never been higher, as the very fate of the Viking world hangs in the balance!

Hiccup the Viking who was Seasick
So begins Cressida Cowell's stories about a little Viking who cannot fit in. Unlike his dad, Stoick the Vast, Hiccup is tiny, thoughtful and polite and scared of almost everything - especially of going to sea for the very first time. But go he must... So who will save the day when everything goes wrong aboard ship and all the big Vikings lose their cool? This wonderfully witty fable will delight all those who have ever faced up to their worst fears.

How to Train Your Viking
Toothless is the dragon of a truly extraordinary Viking Hero called Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III. Hiccup has written three books so far, and now Toothless has his say. Here are Toothless's tips on how to train your Viking!

The Day of the Dreader
The Isle of Berk is being stalked by a deadly sea dragon called the BIG DREADER, fires are ravaging the forests and the Hairy Hooligans are trapped on the island without any food! All except Toothless who has found a stash of eggs that he plans to keep all to himself...But not if the BIG DREADER has anything to do with it!

How to Train Your Dragon: A Journal for Heroes
Ink-splattered and full of quotes, Viking songs and riotous drawings from the How to Train Your Dragon books. This is a must-have journal for all seasons with blank space for young Heroes to fill with their own dragon drawings and heroic musings...Also includes Dragon jokes and useful Dragonese phrases to help train even the naughtiest of dragons.

The Complete Book of Dragons: A guide to Dragon Species
Long ago, the world was full of dragons. But what happened to them? Where are they now? These pages are taken from the notebooks of Viking Hero Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third when he was just a boy. A keen dragonwatcher, Hiccup paints a picture of the brilliance and fire and spirit of that lost dragon world.