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Mash ’em, boil ’em, stick ’em in a stew

How to train your dragon 4: how to cheat a dragon's curse by Cressida Cowell

November 25, 2024 by Caesar's Wife Leave a Comment

The fourth How To Train Your Dragon book continues telling the adventures of the fledgling viking, Hiccup, as he finds his place in the world. Hiccup is the weedy and clever son of his viking clan’s chief, Stoik the Vast. Though he’s proven to his father (3 times now, given this is #4 in the series) that he is a cunning and clever future-chief, they continue to clash with one another. This time, the rub centres around Hiccup’s friend, Fishlegs. Stoik thinks that Hiccup would […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction Tagged With: cressida cowell

Caesar's Wife's CBR16 Review No:18 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction · Tags: cressida cowell ·
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More adventures in bedtime reading

How To Be A Pirate by Cressida Cowell

November 14, 2023 by Caesar's Wife Leave a Comment

How To Be A Pirate continues the story of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III as he continues to grow into his role as as a viking, a pirate, and the heir to/future leader of the Hooligan tribe. In the first book, Hiccup established himself as a capable Dragon master, not through his brutality, but through his humanity. His unorthodox approach to training his dragon, Toothless, saved the tribe from total annihalation. He learned that, although his ways are different, his instincts are sound and cleverness is […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction Tagged With: cressida cowell

Caesar's Wife's CBR15 Review No:29 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction · Tags: cressida cowell ·
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Adventures in Bedtime Reading

How To Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell

November 3, 2023 by Caesar's Wife Leave a Comment

My quest for a book that appeals to both my six year old son and me continues, with the latest attempt being the first in the How To Train Your Dragon series. You may think you know this story if you’ve seen the Dreamworks movie and sequels, but I can assure you: you don’t! The novel strikes an entirely different tone and the story told within the  differs in many respects. Yes, our narrator and central character is Hiccup, future heir to the viking clan […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Featured, Fiction Tagged With: Bedtime Books, cressida cowell

Caesar's Wife's CBR15 Review No:27 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Featured, Fiction · Tags: Bedtime Books, cressida cowell ·
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“I can’t be less of a hero than a spoon!”

November 3, 2018 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

This was my other drunken audiobook choice from my library’s wine tasting.  It had a cool title, and then I saw David Tennant was reading, so I grabbed it!  The language is very clever, or maybe it just seems so with David Tennant reading it.  (And he has to sing at one point, and he’s using a sprite voice, and I don’t think he enjoyed that part.) A long time ago, before England was England, there was a great forest from sea to sea.  And […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Children's Books, Fantasy Tagged With: #CBR10, Children's, cressida cowell, magic

crystalclear's CBR10 Review No:43 · Genres: Audiobooks, Children's Books, Fantasy · Tags: #CBR10, Children's, cressida cowell, magic ·
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Two Quick Kids Books

June 24, 2017 by vel veeter 1 Comment

How to Train your Dragon Something about this novel doesn’t work for me. I think it has to do with the fact that movies absolutely moves me to tears every single time I see it. I find it incredibly touching and incredibly heartfelt and loving and wonderful. This book is fine and all, but it just doesn’t have that same heart to it. Not even a little bit in comparison. I think part of the problem is that the movie does such a good job […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction Tagged With: beverly cleary, cressida cowell, how to train your dragon, runaway ralph

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:255 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction · Tags: beverly cleary, cressida cowell, how to train your dragon, runaway ralph ·
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