How to Train Your Dragon

... take a look there as well.

So as you've been listening and maybe you're like in the car and you're like, "Oh, I just [laughs] wait, wait, I need to hear that one," 'cause there's other ones that I also really love like the How to Train Your Dragon books, the actual books, not the movies, are equally excellent for boys especially.

So there's some, a couple other series that I would, we just don't have time to like go through and mention, but there's a lot of really fun ones that are imaginative and, um, not just, you know, Magic Tree House.

[laughs]

So we got to about 5B and then she was like, okay, these stories are really dull, but 5B is enough to get you reading.

And so I remember really distinctly, I went to a bookshop and I bought the Cressida Cowell, How to Train Your Dragon books.

And I scattered them over her bed.

And she was like, oh, read them to me.

If you'd like to hear more about fantasy maps, please check our earlier episodes.

We spoke with the fabulous fantasy writer Roz Kaveney about Tolkien's maps in Season 1, and Cressida Cowell about her How to Train Your Dragon series in Season 5.

You can find those episodes in the podcast platform of your choice.

This has been an Oculi Mundi exploration.