DeBlois listed White Fang with The Black Stallion, E.T. and Born Free as the stories of a bond between a person and a wild animal that the film was built on.
AnimationSeries· 2010· Comedy
How to Train Your Dragon
by Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders
How to Train Your Dragon: it draws on 2 recorded sources.
What influenced How to Train Your Dragon
The works this one is recorded as drawing on.
Dean DeBlois named E.T. among the films How to Train Your Dragon came from, a boy who befriends a creature everyone around him fears and has to hide it.