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Great Deal on a Cool How to Train Your Dragon Book

February 18, 2016 by Deanna Tousignant 5 Comments

So the very day after I wrote a post about flicks you can find on Netflix which are adapted from cool kid’s books,we randomly stopped in at the local Chapters and I found this lovely hardcover How to Train Your Dragon book hanging out in the discount section.

The (In)Complete Book of Dragons

It was marked down to $6.99. How could I say no? I mean I have a really hard time saying no to books in general, so when my 8-year old daughter, Gracie, asked if we could get it I readily agreed.

1) The book is awesome. It’s full of lovely sketchy artwork, odd typography, and “handwritten” notations.

2) Grace, my third grader, loves it.

3) She needs help reading some of the handwritten parts, particularly the cursive. (At points I felt like maybe so did I. Hiccup really needs to work on his penmanship).

4) Reading this book is encouraging Grace to want to learn cursive, a skill they apparently no longer teach in school.

5) Aside from the fact that it includes cursive I have no clue why this was in the “for teenagers” section. It’s perfectly suitable for 8 year olds.

6) Apparently dragons don’t hatch, they explode out of their eggs. My daughter thought this passage was the funniest thing she’d read, ever. She read it aloud to me at least twelve times.

7) Reading this with her made me want to go back and watch the How to Train Your Dragon films (if you’re curious, I’ve worked out the chronological order for all of the How to Train Your Dragon TV episodes and movies).

How about you folks? Any Dragon Rider fans in your household? Have you picked up any of the How to Train Your Dragon books? (And is there a reason these are being marketed as “for teens” that I’m missing?)

(This book is no longer available for discount at Chapters, but you can still grab at copy at Amazon <–affiliate link).

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Filed Under: Cool Deal Alerts, Fun, We Love Books Tagged With: #StreamTeam, learning, literacy, review

Comments

  1. Nancy T says

    February 18, 2016 at 6:09 pm

    My girls love How to Train Your Dragon and we'll be streaming it soon – Once they've finished H2O.

    Reply
  2. Elizabeth Matthiesen says

    February 18, 2016 at 7:24 pm

    I'll bet that my grandson would love this book too. I love the cover, a blue dragon must be something very special 🙂

    Reply
  3. cookienewf says

    February 18, 2016 at 11:38 pm

    Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts on this book it sounds like a book my granddaughter would enjoy !

    Reply
  4. lilfifi says

    February 19, 2016 at 7:13 am

    No, but I will look into getting these for my grandkids. Sounds like fun books!

    Reply
  5. Nate says

    November 15, 2017 at 12:21 am

    Very nice deal

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