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Biographical note
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.Vikings, dragons, Romans and mayhem cavort across the pages in their usual irreverent and hilarious style
School Librarian
Vikings, dragons, Romans and mayhem cavort across the pages in their usual irreverent and hilarious style
School Librarian
These Hiccup stories are a sure-fire hit with children aged 6 and over. Full of quirky, child-like illustrations, they sparkle with humour and wit. The adventure is rip-roaringly fast and will engage from the very first page
My Books Mag
These Hiccup stories are a sure-fire hit with children aged 6 and over. Full of quirky, child-like illustrations, they sparkle with humour and wit. The adventure is rip-roaringly fast and will engage from the very first page
My Books Mag
Good jokes, funny drawings and dramatic scenes
Daily Echo
Good jokes, funny drawings and dramatic scenes
Daily Echo
This is book three in the <i>How to Train Your Dragon</i> series. They keep getting better and better. It's the best book ever!
guardian.co.uk
This is book three in the <i>How to Train Your Dragon</i> series. They keep getting better and better. It's the best book ever!
guardian.co.uk
'If you haven't discovered Hiccup yet, you're missing out on one of the greatest inventions of modern children's literature.'
Julia Eccleshare, Guardian children's editor
'Irresistably funny, exciting and endearing'
Amanda Craig, The Times
CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE WEEK: 'This book is great fun and has a Blackadderish sense of humour ... full of the sort of jokes that will make schoolboys snigger.'
Nicolette Jones, The Sunday Times
A super story, inventive, ingenious, perpetually surprising. One to cherish.
Armadillo, Spring 2003
A wonderfully wittily written and illustrated story.
Waterstones Quarterly Magazine
How to Train Your Dragon is a delightful narrative caper... It offers a challenging read to 11-year-olds, and rewards reading aloud, especially for those who relish an element of theatre at story time.
Lindsey Fraser, Sunday Herald, Glasgow
... raucous and slapstick... liberally illustrated with [Cressida Cowell's] riotous drawings, notes and maps.
The Financial Times
[Cressida Cowell] puts a contemporary spin on the old brains over brawn moral and brings the story to a climax with a thrilling dragon duel. Lots for lots of different readers to enjoy.
Books for Keeps
Cowell brings Hiccup to life in this silly and delightful little novel.
St Paul Pioneer Press
Bulging with good jokes, funny drawings and dramatic scenes, it is absolutely wonderful.
Independent on Sunday
'hilarious'
www.writeaway.org
'funny and well writen'
Cheri Lloyd
'another fiendishly funny catalogue of disaster'
Pet O'Connell
We've loved Hiccup's dragon training adventures from the start. (tBk's Top 40 Children's Books)
tBk Magazine
It's the best book ever! They keep getting better and better.
The Guardian