title: How to Train Your Dragon: A Journal for Heroes
author:  Cressida Cowell 
description: Cressida Cowell lives in London with her husband, Simon; children Maisie, Clementine, and Alexander; and two cats, Lily and Baloo. In addition to translating Hiccup's memoirs, she has written and illustrated picture books including <i>How to Be a Viking</i>.
zlib_text: Dedication
  For Jessica and Sophie, in memory of Princess Jasmine and her best friend,
  Marmaduke, and for all of the dragons that have helped keep our dreams
  safe.
  
  Epigraph
  My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the
  shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!
  —J. R. R. TOLKIEN, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
  
  Contents
  Cover
  Title Page
  Dedication
  Epigraph
  Introduction
  “What Heroism Tells Us,” Jane Yolen
  “Matriculation,” Elle Katharine White
  “Hikayat Sri Bujang, or, The Tale of the Naga Sage,” Zen Cho
  “Yuli,” Daniel Abraham
  “A Whisper of Blue,” Ken Liu
  “Nidhog,” Jo Walton
  “Where the River Turns to Concrete,” Brooke Bolander
  “Habitat,” K. J. Parker
  “Pox,” Ellen Klages
  “The Nine Curves River,” R. F. Kuang
  “Lucky’s Dragon,” Kelly Barnhill
  “I Make Myself a Dragon,” Beth Cato
  “The Exile,” JY Yang
  “Except on Saturdays,” Peter S. Beagle
  
  “La Vitesse,” Kelly Robson
  “A Final Knight to Her Love and Foe,” Amal El-Mohtar
  “The Long 