In the movie, the dragons are, at first, animals that ought to be feared. For instance, in the book, the dragons are friendly pets that must undergo training, just like dogs. The most interesting thing to me, however, in contrasting the book and movie(s), was the relationship between the dragons and the Vikings of Berk, and how that relationship changes in the end.

I found it interesting that even the second HTTYD movie took some ideas from this first book as well: the two Alphas (the super huge dragons) and the fight between them. But isn’t it so different from the movie? Though not completely even the illustrations and descriptions of Hiccup and a few other characters were pretty accurate. The boys encounter a problem: there are two “gobsmackingly” humongous dragons by the cliffs - human-eating dragons, the Green Death and the Purple Death, and it turns out that it is up to Hiccup and his dragon Toothless to save the island of Berk from these Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus’s.įor the spoiler hater’s sake, and if any of you care enough to read the book yourself to find out about the ending, I won’t finish the short summary. The boys are banished from the Hooligan tribe, far from the village of Berk. This is hard work, and they fail on the day where they show off their dragons and their training talents. Here is a short summary: Ten-year-old Hiccup Horrendous III and a group of other Viking boys from the Hooligan tribe on the island of Berk capture their own dragons to train. But I did not like it enough to try out the rest in the series. The author did a brilliant job in pulling this off. It is written as Hiccup’s memoir on how to become a Hero the Hard Way, and in third person. But since How to Train Your Dragon is my absolute favorite animated film, I decided to finish it, and when I was done, I was glad I did. Meaning that it appeals to younger readers of Elementary age (it appealed quite successfully to my ten-year-old brother he could not put it down), and even though it was written in a brilliantly funny style, there was, well, language that is not often appropriate. I decided to give it a try and write up a post comparing and contrasting the book and movie. It is the first in a series of at least ten books. But how many of you have read the book How to Train Your Dragon by Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, translated from the old Norse by Cressida Cowell? Yeah, I didn’t know it was a book either until a while ago, when I saw it on display at Barnes and Noble.

I’m sure most of you have seen the How to Train Your Dragon movies.

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