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How to Train Your Dragon

By: Cressida Cowell
Narrated by: David Tennant
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The story of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III rise to fame, through his dragon-training exploits, told in Hiccup's own words by David Tennant.

Hiccup was a truly extraordinary Viking Hero, Warrior chieftain, awesome sword-fighter and amateur naturalist. He was known throughout Vikingdom as 'the Dragon Whisperer' on account of his power over these terrifying beasts. But it wasn't always like that....

©2004 Cressida Cowell (P)2004 Hodder Children's Books

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Brilliant!!

My family and I loved this audio book. David Tennant does a spectacular job of bringing the book to life with many different voices, Toothless is my favourite. A warning though to fans of the movie: The movie is not the same as the original story. Some of the characters are different or the same in name only and the story is not the same. However if you can let that go it is highly enjoyable and shares a lot of the same spirit and humour.

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Great children’s adventure story wonderfully perfo

A great children’s adventure story wonderfully performed. My six-year-old boy has become completely hooked with this series to such an extent I have heard him saying “Oh for Thor’s sake” when frustrated with his little brother. David Tennant has given a masterful performance. The writing is not as strong as other children’s series such as “Harry Potter” so an adult may not enjoy this as much but probably more age appropriate for 6-10 year old’s. Overall a good introduction to the fantasy genre

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It was really cool

It was a little scary with the sea dragon blowing up
The rest was pretty pretty good.
The narrator was good but I didn’t like toothless’ voice I think he could do better with that.
(As quoted by the 7yr old book critic)

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Fun for the whole family

our whole family loved this book. the narration is gripping! brilliant accents and enthusiasm from David Tennant.
the story is heart warming and we loved how using brains before Braun makes Hiccup the hero. We have listened to the whole series.

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Long live dragons!

A delightful fantasy aimed at children but a pleasure for even an aged adult such as myself. David Tennant's reading is spot on and his singing an added joy!

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Kids and adults will enjoy it equally.

I bought this book to listen to in the car on a long trip. Both the kids and myself enjoyed it, well I may have enjoyed it more than the kids. The story is quite different to the movies, it is helpful to know that and to explain it to the kids to avoid confusion. Aside from that it was fun, David Tennant read it brilliantly and it kept us all entertained on a long road trip.

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For the love of David Tennant

I was quite surprised to find that the how to train your dragon books were so completely different from the movies and tv series, it worked out great though because you get two adventures into the world of dragons and other than their names nothing is the same.
Loved the story but David Tennant’s performance of the story is solid gold - I’ll be buy the others just to continue to listen to his wonderful narration

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Travel story perfection

Great story. Perfect for kids on long journeys. Narrator was awesome. The story was so different from the movie (which is also good but almost unrecognisable here), but really entertaining with a great moral.

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Different

Having loved the movies by the same title I was a bit surprised and a little disappointed how different the two are. But David Tennant's amazing performance made up for my reservations. If I hadn't see the movie first I probably would have enjoyed it a bit more, I will try others in the series. A different but great story - not 5 stars but close.

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Amazing book

This was the best book ever I loved every Part of and I just couldn’t stop reading.

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