How to Cheat a Dragon’s Curse: The Heroic Misadventures of Hiccup the Viking By: Cressida Cowell
Fiction: youth, fantasy, historic fiction, 241 pages 5 grade reading level, 2006
This is a fun book. It is written as if the main character is the writer including the drawings and bits that kids like to add to their work. It is part of a series of books on being a Viking pirate/ owning a dragon. I will be on the look out for the other books. The only downside to the book is its historic problems. On one hand it expects the reader to have a basic understanding of Norse mythology and that the Vikings might have been the first Europeans to America, but on the other hand it has them eating American foods before they discovered America. But, as it is a fantasy book with dragons and other mythical things it does make it easier to overlook things that would be unacceptable in a book that was solely historic fiction.
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