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How To Be A Viking

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Cressida Cowell. Hachette Children’s Group, (32p) ISBN: 9781444982084. Picture Book, read 09/04/25, Paperback ★★★★☆

How To Be A Viking

How To Be A Viking

This is the first ever How To Train Your Dragon book, featuring Hiccup and Stoick the Vast.

Full of great illustrations that really get the feel of the book across strongly, and made me want to re-read How To Train Your Dragon as it’s been a very long time, long before I started reviewing.

One of my favourites was when Hiccup went paddling in the sea and the fish were sticking their tongues out at him.

Always thought there was a Thor/Loki thing going on with Stoick and Old Wrinkly but also a bit of Ragnar/Floki and the pictures here really reinforce both for me.

This is a lovely story all about how Hiccup is full of worry and fears all the way through the book, all of which are belittled by his father as impossible fears as Hiccup is a Viking!

There are songs, whales, crabs, storms, and a young Viking finding his own way through his feelings and fears and saving everyone else in the end, and Stoick admitting that sometimes Vikings get scared.

I received this from Hachette Children’s Group in exchange for an honest review.

Where Is The Cat?

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Eva Eland. Andersen Press, (32p) ISBN: 9781839131844. Picture Book, read 07/04/25, Paperback ★★★★☆

Where Is The Cat?

Where Is The Cat?

Cat has a lovely life, playing with his friends, sleeping, having enough to eat, and having lovely times in gentle conversations.

But sometimes there is Suzy.

Suzy is a normal, boisterous toddler and has all the energy of one.

This is not to Cat’s liking.

A lovely little book full of energy which has got great reactions at story time, mainly because the children love playing the game of hide-and-seek looking for where Cat is on the page.

What we find out very clearly is that Cat lives their life very much on their own terms.

Colourful and fun, full of little bits to point out and lots of energy, another story time favourite.