The Thunderclap Series #5: Hiccup

“There were dragons when I was a boy . . .”

Thus begins the fifth in my no-particular-order Thunderclap list, How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell. It’s a smashing opening line, for it introduces all sorts of questions that can only be answered by reading on: are there no longer dragons? Why not? Where did they go? Will they come back? Who is speaking? What did he think/feel about dragons as a boy, and how has that changed?

Well played, Ms. Cowell. Well played.

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