by Cressida Cowel
Date Read: 10/15/15
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
I will first start by saying this book is nothing like the
movie. The movie basically took the names
and the very broad concept of training dragons and that is it. Well, I guess it also still made Hiccup a
misfit, just for different reasons.
I listened to this as an audiobook, and I really enjoyed
it. The guy who read it had a great
accent that just added to the story – you really got wrapped up in the Viking
lore and such. There were times where he
would do the yelling parts though and it hurt my ears! Haha.
This book focuses more on the “training your dragon” aspect
of the story, which the movie briefly touched on in subduing the dragons. I really liked the part when Hiccup read the
book “How to Train Your Dragon” with all the credits and such, and then opened
the body and it just read “Yell at it”. It made me laugh pretty hard. Silly Vikings thinking they can just yell and
control things.
Hiccup had to learn a different way to train his unusually
small (and toothless) dragon. I liked
that the dragon language was called “Dragonese”…how cute! Though, I wonder how Hiccup learned it if no
one else in the tribe spoke it…
While Hiccup wasn’t the strongest or have the largest
presence, you could still tell he was brave and leader material when he gave
his first dragon to Fishlegs and had to go back to get himself another dragon
while thousands of dragons were chasing them out of the cave.
Then the Green death, giant sea dragon, appeared on their
shores and Hiccup and the others had to show their warrior strengths.
One very different thing between the book and the movie was
that the dragons talk in the book! Well,
that’s because Hiccup can speak Dragonese.
Toothless actually talked with a weird little stutter. I’m not sure if
it’s just because he has a stutter or because he was still an infant dragon.
Either way it took some getting used to, but he was so darn cute…even when he
was making silly comments.
I also enjoyed the dragon scoring at the beginning of the
book. I thought it was a nice touch in the movie that they put a scene in there
where one of the kids scores the giant dragon they were fighting. It was a lot of fun.
Overall this book was very entertaining. This would be a great book to read to kids at
bedtime, even if they love the movie.
Both have great stories, and you’ll still love Hiccup and Toothless in
both versions!
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