The Day of the Dreader World Book Day 2012
Cressida Cowell
Subjects
- Action Adventures - chills, thrills and plenty of spills
- Fantasy Worlds - awesome adventures of magic and mystery
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A World Book Day 2012 exclusive short story in the How to Train Your Dragon series.
The Isle of Berk is being stalked by a deadly sea dragon called the BIG DREADER, fires are ravaging the forests and the Hairy Hooligans are trapped on the island without any food! All except Toothless who has found a stash of eggs that he plans to keep all to himself… But not if the BIG DREADER has anything to do with it!
How to Train Your Dragon is a DreamWorks film starring Gerrard Butler, America Ferrera and Jonah Hill, out on DVD adapted from the best selling How to Train Your Dragon series by Cressida Cowell. Read the rest of Hiccup’s exploits in How to Train Your Dragon, How to Be a Pirate, How to Speak Dragonese, How to Cheat a Dragon’s Curse, How to Twist a Dragon’s Tale, A Hero’s Guide to Deadly Dragons, How to Ride a Dragon’s Storm, How to Break a Dragon’s Heart and How to Steal a Dragon’s Sword. Check out the website for games, downloads, activities and sneak peeks! Read all about Hiccup and all of your favourite characters, learn to speak Dragonese and train your own Dragon to do tricks!
Reviews
My favorite part was when Toothless tried to eat the Dreaders eggs and became the Dreader babies “papa”, because Toothless got some of his own medicine in how the babies behaved.
Lady Venus Gooseberry 13.09.2025
Star Reviewer
My favorite part of this book is when Stoic got really mad because it was so funny. My favourite character was Toothless because he tried his best!
Baroness Wanda Gormenghast 13.09.2025
Star Reviewer
So, I thought this book was rather inspiring because I like mythical creatures like dragons. They really make you use your imagination. My favourites were hiccup because he is a rather brave and daring and his tragic toothless was so cute but mischievous. I would recommend this story to any fans of dragons and mythical creatures
Esquire Burp Skateboard 13.08.2022
I have really enjoyed reading this book as I love the characters.
Anonymous 02.09.2021
It was fiction and my favourite character was Toothless. I would recommend it to someone else because it’s funny and full of crazy adventurous story. Turns out the Dreader was something else after all!
Doctor Harmonica Bottlenose 21.07.2021
I liked Toothless because he was funny.
Baroness Daffodil Starlight 20.07.2021
I love the How to Train your Dragons books!
Anonymous 15.02.2021
I like Toothless.
Empress Iguana Postage-Stamp 17.09.2020
My favourite character is Toothless because he is cheeky! No wonder Hiccup is often mad with him. My Year 2 teacher introduced me to the first book and also the Day of the Dreader, so then I had to read them all! I love these books so much and have already recommended them to my Mum and Dad!
Coach Catapult Bumblebee 03.09.2020
It was good, but the bit I didn’t like was when Toothless burned the eggs with babies in them.
Count Flash Bouncy-castle 11.08.2020
This book was extremely funny! It had a good storyline, even though it was alot shorter than other books in the series. It was easy to follow. I would recommend it.
Baron Bruno Quarantine 10.08.2020
I love all the how to train your dragon books!
Anonymous 06.08.2020
Surprising
Coach Cornelius Skateboard 23.07.2020
Great book I love how the dreader was a giant stink dragon
Anonymous 17.07.2020
Rather funny. Toothless was very cheeky all the time.
Anonymous 30.06.2020
I really enjoyed this book because Toothless found some really cute dragon babies and they belong to the Dreader. Hiccup and his tribe tried to get the Dreader away while Toothless was looking after the babies and they were making a mess.
Mademoiselle Blossom Starlight 08.06.2020
This was a far shorter version of How to Train your Dragon, but Toothless was just as naughty as usual (see the dragon behaviour chart in this book) and gets himself into lots of trouble, just in far less chapters!
Anonymous 29.07.2018
Good book
Anonymous 07.10.2017
Quite funny and I love toothless
Anonymous 22.09.2016
This book was so cool.
Anonymous 03.08.2016
