CABIN FEVER: 5 Movies to Enjoy With Your Kids
It figures that after sixty degree weather in NYC last week, we get covered in a blanket of snow for winter break. In between bouts of playing outside, warm up to a great movie that you can actually...
View ArticleHow a Dragon Helped My 3-Year-Old Understand Internal Combustion Engines
My daughter has loved the movie How to Train Your Dragon since the first time she watched it around 18 months old. Eventually I purchased the book The Art of How to Train Your Dragon so we could...
View ArticleTeaser Trailer for ‘How to Train Your Dragon 2’
Toothless is back! In 2010, Cressida Cowell’s hilarious series of children’s books about Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III and his pet dragon Toothless came to the big screen. Now, Dreamworks has released...
View ArticleHow to Train Your Dragon is Officially Everywhere!
“Dragons: Riders of Berk” is now available on two separate DVDs. Image: Fox/DreamWorks Animation. Just last week, GeekMom Jackie shared the teaser trailer for How to Train Your Dragon 2. Now, the...
View ArticleUnboxing the How to Train Your Dragon Collector's Edition
The version of the How to Train Your Dragon Collector’s Edition with the flying dragons is a Walmart exclusive. Hiccup, Toothless, and the rest of the How to Train Your Dragon crew are just weeks away...
View ArticleiTunes Gift Card Giveaway for Dragons Interactive Story App
Last week DreamWorks released a new app for the How to Train Your Dragons franchise, and they’re sponsoring a giveaway for GeekMom readers. The DreamWorks Press: Dragons app is the first...
View ArticleThe Sequel Generation
© Disney. All rights reserved. My five-year-old son is a connoisseur of animation, from Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and Wallace and Gromit to Rio and 101 Dalmatians. A conversation with him a few weeks ago...
View ArticleLatest ‘Dragons’ Races to Netflix This Month
DreamWorks Dragons: Race To The Edge. Photo: © 2015 DreamWorks Animation Television, Inc. All Rights Reserved. The dragons are coming! In the GeekMom world, we know this is a very good thing. Both kids...
View ArticleGBBP 109: Cressida Cowell
Today, we round out 2016 with the incredible Cressida Cowell. You're welcome. If you're unaware, Cressida is the author of the 'How to Train Your Dragon' series of books, upon which the massively...
View ArticleTraining Your Dragon on the Go
Reading Time: 5 minutes Image: Activision/Griptonite Games DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon has already proven itself at the box office. Combining understated 3D, quality CGI, an enjoyable story...
View ArticleDragon Training Demystified on the Nintendo Wii
Reading Time: 5 minutes Image: Activision When I reviewed How to Train Your Dragon for the Nintendo DS last month, I came away with a fairly favorable impression. While it’s not exactly the kind of...
View ArticleHow To Train Your Dragon 2
Reading Time: 1 minuteThere’s a teaser trailer out for How To Train Your Dragon 2. I loved the first movie, and this one offers just enough teaser to interest me in the second. Too bad we have to wait...
View ArticleWin an Awesome Prize Pack in Our How to Train Your Dragon 2 Giveaway!
Reading Time: 2 minutes The movie How to Train Your Dragon 2 has hit theaters today, and it looks like it might hit that rarefied territory of sequels that improve upon the original. Having read...
View ArticleGo Back to Berk With ‘Dragons: Race to the Edge’
Reading Time: 4 minutes [Dragons: Race to the Edge from Dreamworks Animation premieres on Netflix on June 26. The first 13 episodes will all drop at once.] Last week, I got a chance to visit the...
View ArticleGreat Big Beautiful Podcast: Episode 19 –‘Dragons: Race to the Edge’
Reading Time: 2 minutes Episode 19: Dragons: Race to the Edge You can listen on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and YouTube; you can follow the RSS feed; or you can listen right here! Your browser does...
View ArticlePlaymobil Playroom: ‘Dreamworks Dragons,’ Wave 2
Reading Time: 2 minutes Welcome to the Playmobil Playroom, where we take a monthly peek inside those impressive blue boxes and see what treasures await within. Sometimes we’ll have step-by-step photos...
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