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How to Train Your Dragon

Name: How to Train Your Dragon
Author: Cressida Cowell

by Cressida Cowell

2003•Family•223 pages

Taste attributes: familyfantasyadventurecomedyfastfresh & originalwholesomelightimaginarysimplelinearglossyemotive & stirringcoming of ageunderdog triumphsunlikely connections

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Boxlist takeA larger-than-life, warm-hearted family novel: light and uncomplicated. Best if you like the extraordinary over the everyday.

Taste details

Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: very wholesome · Weight: light · Realism: imaginary world · Story: simple · Structure: linear · Look: glossy · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score

Open Library rating

4.1 / 5

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About This Book

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter, a dragon-whisperer and the greatest Viking Hero who ever lived. But it wasn't always like that.

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Characteristics

Where this book sits on each taste spectrum

SlowPACEFast

FamiliarORIGINALITYOriginal

DarkTONEWholesome

LightWEIGHTINESSHeavy

FantasyREALISMRealistic

SimpleINTRICACYIntricate

Non-LinearLINEARITYLinear

UnderstatedSTYLEStylised

IntimateSCALEEpic

RestrainedEMOTIONIntense

Genres and themes

FamilyFantasyAdventureComedyComing of ageUnderdog triumphsUnlikely connections

Subjects

Humorous storiesVikingsJuvenile fictionDragonsHumorous fictionInitiation ritesChild and youth fictionAdventure and adventurers

Details

Author: Cressida Cowell
Published: 2003
Pages: 223
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Source: Open Library

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