How to Train Your Dragon (novel)

''This is about the book. For the DreamWorks film, see How to Train Your Dragon (film).''

How to Train Your Dragon is the first book in the series by Cressida Cowell. The book is about the adventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, the son of Stoick the Vast, a Viking chief. On the Island of Berk, a group of young boys from the Hairy Hooligans are instructed by Gobber the Belch to perform their first military operation — to catch their own dragon. Those who are not able to catch and train a dragon are exiled from the tribe, and those who accomplish the mission are initiated into the tribe as full members.

Plot
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III is a truly extraordinary Viking hero known throughout Vikingdom as "the Dragon Whisperer"... but it wasn't always so. Travel back to the days when the mighty warrior was just a boy, the quite and thoughtful son of the Chief of the Hairy Hooligans. Can Hiccup capture a dragon and train it without being torn limb from limb? Join the adventure as the small boy finds a better way to train his dragon and becomes a hero!