“紧张刺激、令人捧腹”——《驯龙高手》How to train your dragon

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“如果你还不知道小嗝嗝，你可能就错过了最有趣的现代儿童文学作品之一！”

——《泰晤士报》(英国)

“紧张刺激的故事，令人捧腹的情节，这是一本让不爱阅读的孩子也能沉浸其中的绝佳童书！”

——《时代周刊》（美国）

这是一部非常特别的书，其非凡的想象和呐喊能让孩子们热血沸腾！

——著名作家、评论家彭懿

大概每个孩子都有一段时间会为恐龙着迷。

我家这位是在幼儿园前后。书架上摆了半排恐龙书，彩图带数据的，有故事的。玩具篮里也扔了好多模型，时不时拿出来排排坐。

周围的（男）孩子也差不多，大大小小软软硬硬的恐龙玩具，见过的放在一起，足够开个玩具专门店了。

孩子长大一些以后，纯粹数据的恐龙书渐渐失宠，各种想象力丰富的奇幻小说丰富了他的童年直到青少年。

《驯龙高手》是陪伴了他相当久的一个系列。

从How to Train Your Dragon开始，一直到最近的第十本How to Seize a Dragon's Jewel——第十一本也出了，还没来得及看——每一本都听过，其中大部分读过，相关的电影和剧集当然也不错过，每一部、每一集，都看过不止一次。有个学期写作课是长篇小说，几经思考之后，动笔写的也是龙的故事，只不过学期结束，写了四章的书也就夭折了。

这套书到底有什么魔力，让孩子着迷至此？

先贴个封面吧——全套十二本，已出版十一本：

Main series

How To Train Your Dragon, 2003.

How To Be A Pirate, 2004.

How To Speak Dragonese, 2005.

How To Cheat A Dragon's Curse, 2006.

How To Twist A Dragon's Tale, 2007.

A Hero's Guide To Deadly Dragons, 2008.

How To Ride A Dragon's Storm, 2008.

How To Break A Dragon's Heart, 2009.

How To Steal A Dragon's Sword, 2011.

How To Seize A Dragon's Jewel, 2012.[2]

How To Betray A Dragon's Hero, 2013.

How to Fight a Dragon's Fury, September 2015（未出）

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“驯龙高手”系列丛书来自英国，是一套童心洋溢的冒险成长小说，被欧美儿童文学界誉为“后哈利·波特时代”最伟大的儿童文学作品。它以绝妙的幻想为基调，以一个普通的维京部落小男孩——小嗝嗝为主人公，描写了小嗝嗝与自己的小龙——“无牙”（没牙仔）一起，依靠智慧、勇气、无私的友谊，带领小伙伴，驯服种种恶龙，最终走向成功的故事。全书曲折丰富，情节多变，冒险、浪漫、奇幻、传奇色彩兼而有之，主题就是：你也许并非天生就具有领袖气质和非凡才能，但只要你拥有对知识的热爱，对家人和朋友的忠诚，对生活无比的热情，就会获得意想不到的好运！

“驯龙高手”系列丛书多次在欧美各类童书榜获五星级推荐，已被翻译成30余种语言热销海内外，并被美国梦工场影片公司分别在2010年、2014年拍成同名电影上映。预计《驯龙高手3》也将拍摄。

Books   

Cowell has published eleven full novels to date based around the adventures of Hiccup, the first published in 2000 and the final due to be published in 2015. Almost all the books have titles based around an instruction guide:

Main series

How To Train Your Dragon, 2003.

How To Be A Pirate, 2004.

How To Speak Dragonese, 2005.

How To Cheat A Dragon's Curse, 2006.

How To Twist A Dragon's Tale, 2007.

A Hero's Guide To Deadly Dragons, 2008.

How To Ride A Dragon's Storm, 2008.

How To Break A Dragon's Heart, 2009.

How To Steal A Dragon's Sword, 2011.

How To Seize A Dragon's Jewel, 2012.

How To Betray A Dragon's Hero, 2013.

How to Fight a Dragon's Fury, September 2015

Spin-offs

How To Train Your Viking, By Toothless The Dragon, 2006.

The Day of the Dreader, 2012.

The Complete Book of Dragons, 2014.

Related novels

Hiccup: The Seasick Viking / Hiccup: The Viking Who Was Seasick, 2000.

Cowell published the supplementary spin-off stories as part of the series: The Day of the Dreader is a short story published in 2012 and the novella How To Train Your Viking was published as part of World Book Day 2006 and is claimed to be written by the dragon Toothless and translated by Cowell. Both of these titles were published in the USA as part of the May 2014 How to Train Your Dragon Special Edition: With Brand New Short Stories! paperback movie tie-in edition. A picture book, Hiccup the Seasick Viking published in 2000, is not considered a part of the series despite featuring the same character of Hiccup. An illustrative guide to the dragon world, titled The Incomplete Book of Dragons, was released in June 2014.

Cowell cites the Scottish Inner Hebrides islands and stories of Scandinavian Scotland as inspirations for the book.

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作者简介


克蕾西达·考威尔(Cressida Cowell)，1970年生于伦敦，毕业于牛津大学，英国著名童书作家、插画家，被英国媒体誉为“后哈利·波特时代”的冒险奇幻小说家。她的作品曾荣获英国历史最为悠久的儿童文学奖——雀巢聪明豆儿童文学奖。
克蕾西达·考威尔相信世界上是有龙存在的，幼年时就利用假期在苏格兰西海岸的一座小岛上搜寻龙的踪迹。主要代表作有：《驯龙高手》《小瞌睡虫丛书》《别闹，小基尔罗伊！》等。

Personal life
Cressida Cowell was born on 15 April 1966 in London. She is the daughter of Michael Hare, 2nd Viscount Blakenham. Her uncle, by marriage, is U.S Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer.

As a child, Cowell states she "grew up in London and on a small, uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland," and that it was during summers spent on the Inner Hebrides where she first began to develop her writing and drawing talents:

"I spent a great deal of time as a child on a tiny, uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland...By the time I was eight, my family had built a small stone house on the island, and with the boat, we could fish for enough food to feed the family for the whole summer.
"From then on, every year we spent four weeks of the summer and two weeks of the spring on the island. The house was lit by candle-light, and there was no telephone or television, so I spent a lot of time drawing and writing stories."

Cowell attended Keble College, Oxford where she studied English, and she also attended Saint Martin's School of Art and Brighton University where she learned illustration.

Cressida Cowell presently resides in London with her husband Simon, a former director and interim CEO of the International Save the Children Alliance; daughters Maisie and Clementine; and son Alexander.

goubao1107

看过11本，看来又要掏银子买12了

yutian2005

去年暑假孩子着迷地听了前面6本，后面几本希望这个暑假读读。英语阅读一直不上道，有点着急。

流光菲舞

我家看了中文版的书第二辑的，超级爱看，让我买全了呢

小宝妈妈NANCY

久闻大名，可惜现在还看不了

小宝妈妈NANCY

久闻大名，可惜现在还看不了

pratt1234

Thanks for sharing.