title: A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons (How to Train Your Dragon, Book 6)
author:  Cressida Cowell 
description: Cressida Cowell is the good friend and confidante of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, Viking warrior and hero of How to Train Your Dragon. When she is not visiting with Hiccup to document his latest memoir, she lives in the UK. She is also the author of <em>The Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown</em>, <em>What Shall We Do With the Boo Hoo Baby?</em> and numerous other picture books.
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  **How to Train Your Dragon**
  
  
  **(The Heroic Misadventures**
  
  
  **of Hiccup Horrendous**
  
  
  **Haddock III #1)**
  
  
  _**Cressida Cowell**_
  
  
  **CONTENTS**
  
  
  A Note from the Author ........... l
  
  
  1\. First Catch Your Dragon. ...... 2
  
  
  2\. Inside the Dragon Nursery 14
  
  
  3\. Heroes or Exiles ............................................. 31
  
  
  4\. How to Train Your Dragon 46
  
  
  5\. A Chat with Old Wrinkly, 6l
  
  
  6\. Meanwhile, Deep in the Ocean ........ 67
  
  
  7\. Toothless Wakes Up 69
  
  
  8\. Training Your Dragon the Hard Way, 81
  
  
  9\. Fear, Vanity, Revenge, and Sil y Jokes 89
  
  
  10\. Thor'sday Thursday 103
  
  
  11\. Thor is Angry 127
  
  
  12\. The Green Death.............................................145
  
  
  13\. When yel ing doesn't.........................................156
  
  
  14\. The fiendishly clever plan................................. 166
  
  
  15\. The Battle at Death's Head Headland 177
  
  
  16\. The Fiendishly Clever Plan Goes Wrong ............... l82
  
  
  
  
  
  17\. In the Mouth of