Edith Nesbit

The Book of Dragons Illustrated Edith Nesbit

Book of Dragons is a computer-animated/2 D-animated short film based on the How to Train Your Dragon franchise. It was produced by Dream Works Animation and directed by Steve Hacker. The short was released on November 15, 2011, on DVD and Blu-ray, along with Gift of the Night Fury, another short film based on the Dragons. Happening after the events in How to Train Your Dragon, the short shows Hiccup, Astrid, Fishlegs, Toothless and Gabber telling the legend behind the Book of Dragons with the misadventures of its author, Bork the Bold. In addition to Bork's discoveries, the young Vikings reveal their own training methods they developed with new, never before seen dragons. The short shows a total of 14 dragons, each spread into 7 classes: Stoker (Terrible Terror, Monstrous Nightmare), Boulder (Grackle, Whispering Death), Fear (Hideous Ripple back, Snap trapper), Sharp (Deadly Nader, Timberjack), Tidal (Scauldron, Thunder drum), Mystery (Change wing, Bonekn apper) and Strike (Skrill, Night Fury). Newly discovered dragons not in the book are revealed in the cartoon series.