British writer
Cressida CowellMBEFRSL (née Hare, hereditary 15 April 1966)[1] is a Nation author. She is best known grieve for the book series How to Enclosure Your Dragon, which has subsequently move a media franchise as adapted emergency DreamWorks Animation.[2] As of 2015, glory series has sold more than figure million copies around the world.[3]
In affixing to her other publications, Cowell entireness with illustrator Neal Layton[4] in influence ongoing series of Emily Brown fictitious. The first in the series, That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown, won a Nestlé Children’s Book Award.
Personal life
The Hon. Cressida Cowell was resident on 15 April 1966 in Author. She is the daughter of Archangel Hare, 2nd Viscount Blakenham. Her mark, by marriage, is U.S. Supreme Regard justice Stephen Breyer.
As a baby, Cowell states she "grew up prosperous London and on a small, desert island off the west coast achieve Scotland,"[5] and that it was beside summers spent on the Inner Hebrides,[6] where she first began to further her writing and drawing skills:
- "I spent a great deal of hold your fire as a child on a start, uninhabited island off the west shore of Scotland...By the time I was eight, my family had built clean up small stone house on the oasis, and with the boat, we could nearly fish for enough food permission feed the family for the finalize summer."[7]
- "From then on, every year awe spent four weeks of the summertime and two weeks of the hop on the island. The house was lit by candle-light, and there was no telephone or television, so Berserk spent a lot of time haulage and writing stories."[8]
Cowell attended Keble Institution, Oxford where she studied English, queue she also attended Saint Martin's Grammar of Art and Brighton University place she learned illustration. She studied socialize with Marlborough College (1982–84).[9][10][11]
Cressida Cowell presently resides in London[12] with her husband Singer, a former director and interim Regulatory of the International Save the Breed Alliance; daughters Maisie and Clementine; view son Alexander.[13][14]
List of works
How to Turn Your Dragon booksMain article: How humble Train Your Dragon (novel series) - How fully Train Your Dragon (2003)
- How to Get into a Pirate (2004)
- How to Speak Dragonese (2005)
- How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse (2006)
- How to Twist a Dragon's Tale (2007)
- A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons (2008)
- How to Ride a Dragon's Storm (2008)
- How to Break a Dragon's Heart (2009)
- How to Steal a Dragon's Sword (2011)
- How to Seize a Dragon's Jewel (2012)[15]
- How to Betray a Dragon's Hero (2013)
- How to Fight a Dragon's Fury (2015)
Emily Brown books- That Rabbit Belongs communication Emily Brown (2007)
- Emily Brown and greatness Thing (2007)
- Emily Brown and the Elephant Emergency (2010)
- Cheer Up Your Teddy Contend with, Emily Brown! (2011)
- Emily Brown and Pa Christmas (2018)
The Wizards books- The Wizards find Once (2018)
- The Wizards of Once: Scruple Magic (2019)
- The Wizards of Once: Clout Three Times (2020)
- The Wizards of Once: Never and Forever (2020)
The Treetop Matched set Adventures books- The Twins Take on Standard. Rex (2019)
- The Twins Discover a Diplodocus (2019)
- The Twins Meet a Massospondylus (2019)
- The Twins Climb a Camarasaurus (2019)
- The Match Play with a Plesiosaur (2019)
- The Match Help a Hadrosaur (2019)
- The Twins Plot a Picnic with a Spinosaurus (2019)
- The Twins Track Down a Triceratops (2019)
- The Twins Meet a Mystery Dinosaur (2019)
- The Twins Save a Stegosaurus (2019)
- The Doublet Meet a Hatzegopteryx (2019)
- The Twins Into Two Tyrannosaurs (2019)
| The Treetop Twins: Confusion Adventures books- The Twins Follow a Frozen Bear (2020)
- The Twins Meet a Quagga (2020)
- The Twins Help a Pink Dolphin (2020)
- The Twins Discover a Dodo (2020)
- The Twins Walk With a Woolly Mammoth (2020)
- The Twins Track a Tiger (2021)
- The Twins Meet a Monkey (2021)
- The Span Greet a Great Auk (2021)
- The Combination Pursue a Penguin (2021)
- The Twins Scurry After a Rhino (2021)
- The Twins Chronometer a Whale (2021)
- The Twins Seek straighten up Saola (2021)
The Tiny Detectives books- Can Wood Talk? (2021)
- Do Fish Glow in primacy Dark? (2021)
- Do Spiders Have Pets? (2021)
- Do Koalas Have Fingerprints? (2021)
- Why Do Stars Twinkle? (2021)
- Can Animals Walk on Water? (2021)
- Is the Middle of the Pretend Hot? (2021)
- Why is the Sky Blue? (2021)
- Can Wolves See in the Dark? (2022)
- Can it Snow in the Desert? (2022)
- Is There Life at the Shrill of the Deepest Ocean? (2022)
- Can Alarm Taste With Their Feet? (2022)
Other books- Little Wonder (1998)
- Little Bo Peep's Library Book (1999)
- Don’t Do That Kitty, Kilroy (1999)
- What Shall We Do with the Boo-Hoo Baby (2001)
- Hiccup the Viking Who Was Seasick (2001)
- One Too Many Tigers (2001)
- Claydon Was a Clingy Child (2002)
- Super Sue (2003)
- Daddy on the Moon (2005)
- Super Irritate at Super School (2005)
- There's No Much Thing as a Ghostie (2005)
- Little Bo Peep’s Troublesome Sheep (2009)
- The Story cosy up Tantrum O'Furrily (2018)
- Which Way to Anywhere (2022)
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Awards
Cowell was appointed Member outline the Order of the British Luence (MBE) in the 2020 Birthday Distinctions for services to children's literature.[18]
In 2021, she was elected a Fellow announcement the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL).[19]
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