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This is the second book in the How to Train Your Dragon series by Cressida Cowell. We've watched the movie and our girls were excited to learn that the movies were based on these books.
When we were getting ready to watch the second movie, I borrowed the first two books in the series to serve as a bit of a refresher. But neither of our girls really got into them - they were disappointed that the books were so different from the movies. This is one reason I like to read the book before I watch th ...more
When we were getting ready to watch the second movie, I borrowed the first two books in the series to serve as a bit of a refresher. But neither of our girls really got into them - they were disappointed that the books were so different from the movies. This is one reason I like to read the book before I watch th ...more

I definitely preferred the second novel of the series to the first. Perhaps it was because it was untainted by the movie, but I actually think it had more to do with the stronger friendship between Hiccup and Toothless.
Hiccup begins the second novel training to be a Viking pirate with his friends. I was kind of surprised, only because I expected the series to be more Dragon-training-centric, something it pulled in later. Once again, bright Hiccup and his common sense-laden friend are ignored whi ...more
Hiccup begins the second novel training to be a Viking pirate with his friends. I was kind of surprised, only because I expected the series to be more Dragon-training-centric, something it pulled in later. Once again, bright Hiccup and his common sense-laden friend are ignored whi ...more

Excellent children's book!
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