Cressida Cowell is the author and the illustrator of the globally bestselling How to Train Your Dragon series. Her next series, The Wizards of Once, was an international bestseller. Cressida is also the author of the Emily Brown picture books, illustrated by Neal Layton. The Which Way series is her most recent and has already been translated into 15 languages.How to Train Your Dragon has sold over 8 million books worldwide in 42 languages. It is also an award-winning DreamWorks film series, and a TV series shown on Netflix and CBBC. The Wizards of Once has been translated into 38 languages and also signed by DreamWorks.Cressida was the Waterstones Children's Laureate (2019-2022). She is an ambassador for the National Literacy Trust and the Reading Agency and a founder patron of the Children's Media Foundation. She has won numerous prizes for her books, including the Gold Award in the Nestle Children's Book Prize, the Hay Festival Medal for Fiction, and Philosophy Now' magazine's 2015 Award for Contributions in the Fight Against Stupidity.She grew up in London and on a small, uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland and she now lives in Hammersmith with her husband, three children and a dog called Pigeon.
Featuring beautiful colour illustrations, Hiccup shows us the
brilliance, fire and spirit of the lost dragon world in this
stunning hardback gift book.
*Family Traveller*
Coinciding with Dreamworks' second How To Train Your Dragon movie,
this gift book features new illustrations - in colour for the first
time - and facts about her now-famous dragons.
*The Sun*
A racy guide to dragons.
*Evening Standard*
An entertaining and informative vital reference work for any young
dragon tamer.
*The Scotsman*
Paints a picture of the brilliance and fire and spirit of that lost
dragon world... a must for all keen dragonwatchers.
*Dunfermline Press*
Full to the brim... a lovingly recreated notebook which fans of
Cowell's ridiculously popular novels will greedily devour in
hours.
*Bury Free Press*
This will be on every dragon aficionado's Christmas list. A glossy
volume packed with entertaining details. An ideal companion to the
inventive series of novels.
*Carousel*
An entertaining and engaging guide to the many and various dragons
who feature large in the books. The perfect Christmas gift for all
Hiccup's many fans.
*Ham & High*
Essential for aspiring dragonwatchers.
*Daily Express*
An ideal companion to the inventive series of novels.
*Carousel*
The perfect Christmas gift for all Hiccup's many fans.
*Ham & High*
My fave 2014 book is The Incomplete Books of Dragons by Cressida
Cowell
*The Guardian*
A must-have for Hiccup fans everywhere
*WRD About Books*
Cressida Cowell's unsurpassed knwoledge of dragons is wrapped up in
a book that you can't help stroking as you pick it up... It is one
of those rare books that teachers have reported children saving
their pocket moeny, as they needed to own it. One of your on-going
missions in life as teachers is to ensure children develop and
widen their vocabulary. This is an ideal book to encourage
understanding of well-chosen vocabulary in context. .. there may
even be insights into human nature as we see echoes of our world in
this stunning book.
*Primary Matters*
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