Read Online The Complete Book of Dragons A Guide to Dragon Species How to Train Your Dragon Cressida Cowell 8601416316581 Books

Product details Age Range 8 - 12 years Grade Level 3 - 7 Series How to Train Your Dragon Hardcover 224 pages Publisher Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (May 20, 2014) Language English ISBN-10 0316244104

The Complete Book of Dragons A Guide to Dragon Species How to Train Your Dragon Cressida Cowell 8601416316581 Books Reviews

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  Cute book that highly resembles being written by the character (Hiccup) from the movie. Book is hardcover and feels like a good, quality build that will last through some punishment from a 7 year old. Looked so interesting that I decided to get 2, 1 for me and 1 for my daughter. She loves it and takes it to school for her and her friends to view during recess on a rainy day. However, I personally wish there was a little more of a detailed description for each individual dragon, instead of 1-2 sentences (see photo). Overall, she really likes it and thats all that matters, so I would recommend this book for any child who loves the movies/tv show.
• Super neat book, my son loved it! It is illustrated cutely and goes into different types of dragons, their speed level and attack level, etc with a little description on the dragon.
  My only issue is that I was a bit disappointed to realize that this isn't quite like the book of dragons seen in the movie How To Train Your Dragon. This book was written prior to the movie and the movie is based off of this series of books, but takes liberty with changing some of the characters and dragons.
  In this book Toothless is not a Night Fury, but is a small little hunting dragon.
  The movies (and tv series) separate the dragons by classes and this book doesn't do that.
  Even though it wasn't what I was expecting it's still a neat little book. Any dragon loving boy would probably enjoy it.
• When we checked it out from the library, we realized how well-liked this book was because about 8 pages were falling out. Had to return it so we didn't make it worse, so my 6-year-old daughter got it at Christmas and pretty much hasn't put it down since. There's a lot of scripty writing, so your kiddo has to be okay reading that. Was also a great transition to the Cowell "HTTYD" books. Before reading this one, daughter was more interested in the movie version of things. But since picking this up and learning about ALL the dragons and seeing it more in the original context, she's started eating up the books. I get taught a lot more about dragons than I ever thought possible.
• I bought this for my son's 6th birthday. He tosses everything else to the side when he saw this book. He is glued to it. He believes it's real and can't stop reading. It's a beautiful book, great quality, looks like it's written and illustrated by a kid which makes it more believable to him. I'd buy this over and over again. It is perfection.
• I bought this for my son for Christmas because when a book says it's a total species guide I assume it will be broke down like dinosaur books. You know the ones that have different dinosaurs on each page and it has all the facts and details about each specific dinosaur. Yeah, that is not how this book is. It's a bunch of random stuff and even when it does break down eggs and some other stuff Night furys aren't even listed and that's the MAIN dragon in How to Train Your Dragon. My son was super disappointed when we went to read it and there wasn't even a detailed page of each dragon.
• My six-year-old how to train your dragon lover, loves this book. He spends so much time studying the images and reading it. I think he likes this whole series so much because the dragons can be scary, but they can also be trained. It is one big metaphor for overcoming your fears. He even used this when he has a bad dream -- he simply "trains" whatever it is in his dream that he is afraid of. While he is not reading the chapter books yet, he enjoyed the first move and has been reading the "Ready to Read" books in this series. This book was a great addition.
• For the last year or so my granddaughter has been facinited with dragons. Especially the movies HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 1 AND 2.Being somewhat of a purist where books are concerned, I was curious about the origin books written by Cressida Cowell. Leah is very smart and like her Nana likes to check things out. The original work is quite a bit different from the Dreamworks version. Leah has spent hours looking at the book and having her Mom read the stories. She loves to pick out the differences and find out more about the "real" dragons. I recommend these books to any parent/child who like the Dreamworks version.
• This was a Christmas gift for our daughter. This book has been towed around everywhere she has been the past 5 months. It has been left open, had very large papers and bookmarks left in it, and been left outside by accident. Fortunately, this book has a quality binding that has withstood the hard use. Our daughter loves the gorgeous images and information on the pages. She is inspired to draw her own dragons!