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Age Guideline: 7-11
About the Event
It’s the 20th Anniversary of Cressida Cowell’s worldwide sensation, How to Train Your Dragon! Come and celebrate with Cressida at the Reading is Magic Festival. We’ll challenge Cressida to answer twenty questions about the brilliant book series which became a film and TV megahit in just twenty minutes – can she do it?! She’ll end with a reading from a new short story in the Dragon world, How to Train Your Hogfly. As a former Children’s Laureate, Cressida is a well-known speaker and her events for children are inspiring and lots of fun!
About the Author/Illustrator
Cressida Cowell is the number one bestselling author-illustrator of the How to Train Your Dragon, The Wizards of Once and Which Way to Anywhere book series, and the author of the Emily Brown picture books, illustrated by Neal Layton. She has sold over 11 million books worldwide in 38 languages. How to Train Your Dragon is also an award-winning billion-dollar DreamWorks film series, and a TV series shown on Netflix and CBBC; The Wizards of Once has also been optioned for film by DreamWorks.
Cressida was the Waterstones Children’s Laureate from 2019 – 2022.and is an ambassador for the National Literacy Trust, a trustee for World Book Day and a founder patron of the Children’s Media Foundation. She has won numerous prizes for her books, including the Blue Peter Book Award and the Ruth Rendell Award for Championing Literacy. She is a honorary fellow of Keble College Oxford, and has a honorary doctorate from the University of Brighton. 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.
Teacher Resources
Link to teacher resources here. Chapter One, Classroom, Activities pack.
Buy the Book here:
Teacher resources and further reading
Click here to find teaching resources for How to Train Your Dragon.
About the Festival Partner
This event has been programmed by Bath Children’s Literature Festival
Bath Festivals is a charity that brings you the Bath Children’s Literature Festival, Europe’s largest dedicated children’s literature festival with a vibrant array of talks and activities for children. They are also responsible for The Bath Festival in the summer which bring the city alive with a celebration of music and books in the beautiful venues and spaces of the world heritage city. By creating innovative and diverse programmes, their festivals inspire and provide unique experiences for residents and visitors to Bath and surrounding areas. Their year-round creative learning programme of hands-on music and literature projects gives children and young people opportunities to gain real-world experience, building their inner confidence and improving communication skills through the arts.