If you want your child to sit down and listen to a story, they have to really care about characters.

That’s why hiccup is so appealing and relatable because he is like so many kids you know in real life. I am also very aware that they could be doing other things with their time, so I make my character as gripping as possible, and the readers must really care about what happens to them. I never talk down to kids because they are just as intelligent as we are. So for the books, I have to try and make them very lively. We’re competing with things like the Internet and television. Well, I’m very aware that children have much more things to do today. So it came from a real place, and the relationship between Stoick and Hiccup was inspired by my father and me. I used to look for dragons in the caves and imagine and make up stories about dragons and Vikings. In this riotous paper-over-board farce, the timid protagonist from Cowells picture book Hiccup. And I did believe that dragons really existed. Little, Brown, 10.95 (214pp) ISBN 978-7-1. I heard a lot of stories about the Vikings. And this was the island Vikings came to when they first invaded Great Britain. How to Train Your Dragon Books in Order (14 Book Series) Who is the author of How to Train Your Dragon series The author is Cressida Cowell. There was no way of contacting the outside world back then. When I was a little girl, he would take me to an uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland, and we’d be dropped off by a local boatman and picked up again two weeks later. His job was in London, but his heart was in the wilderness.

How did this colourful world involving Vikings and dragons come to be?

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