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Author & illustrator of ‘How to Train Your Dragon' ‘Wizards of Once' and ‘Which Way to Anywhere’, Media enquiries: Rebecca.logan @hachettechildrens .co.uk
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Today, as
@UKLaureate
, I have written an open letter to the govt
@10DowningStreet
calling on them to put primary school libraries at the heart of our pandemic response, with £100m yearly investment. Read here; please share with
#lifechanginglibraries
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So this wonderful thing happened today... I’ve been made the new
@Waterstones
Children’s Laureate. I believe books and reading are transformative magic and I want that magic to be available to absolutely everyone
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And here is my
@Waterstones
Children’s Laureate Reading Charter (or giant ‘TO DO’ list...) I love a quest.
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'Schools are not obliged to have libraries, but prisons are. Step one, then, is to make it compulsory for schools, too. This has to be backed up with steptwo: ringfenced money to support schools’ libraries, along with the hiring and training of librarians.'
@MichaelRosenYes
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Public libraries and libraries in primary schools are closing. How are children from low income families to become readers for pleasure?
@MoultonSave
@CressidaCowell
Please can you help raise awareness that nearly all Northamptonshire libraries are under threat of closure?
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SO PROUD to have been given an MBE this afternoon,a real honour, not just for me but for all the wonderful people who have worked with me in thewonderful world of children’s books (particularly looking at you
@HachetteKids
and
@DHAMedia
) but thankyou to you all ❤️
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Decades of research suggests that reading for pleasure is a key indicator of future success. How can a child become a reader for pleasure if their parents or carers cannot afford books, their primary school has no library, or that library is insufficient?
#lifechanginglibraries
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MASSIVE study by Cambridge University of over 10,000 adolescents showing children
#readingforpleasure
at an early age have better mental health, improved attention and less behavioural problems when they enter adolescence...
#lovelibraries
@Literacy_Trust
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So thrilled and proud to be given an MBE yesterday, just wanted to thank all you kind people sending good wishes and congratulations, THANKYOU, I’m very touched... Simon and Pigeon and I went on a celebratory dog walk - look at that SKY!
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Happy birthday to Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third who was born on the 29th of February, a very special day to be born on - this is one of the very first paintings I did of picture book Hiccup back in about 1998
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A new
@UKLaureate
is announced tomorrow, so exciting, and I just wanted to thank
@Booktrust
, my publishers and
@Waterstones
, and all of you out there who have supported our campaigns so brilliantly over the last 3 years
#readingismagic
and
#magicisforeveryone
❤️📚
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I am writing, with the support of former Laureates, literacy organisations, and publishing industry leaders, to ask the Government to help reverse the spiralling inequality in education. Put simply, libraries change lives. Literacy changes lives.
#lifechanginglibraries
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Willing with all my heart that
@MichaelRosen
will recover swiftly, he is such a wonderful man and does so much for children’s books and for literacy ❤️
From Michael's family: Michael is very poorly at the moment. Having spent a night in ICU, he is now doing "ok, stable, alert" and was able to go to a ward yesterday. Thank you very much for all your kind concern. Emma x
@underthecranes
@J0e_R0sen
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I am absolutely DELIGHTED that
@Booktrust
have extended my tenure as
@UKLaureate
by an extra year so that we can carry out our campaigns to get the transformative magic of books into the hands of every child in the U.K. ...THANKYOU
@BookTrust
!
#UnitedByBooks
#ReadingisMagic
A magical move from
@Booktrust
, as they announce that
@CressidaCowell
is to have third year as
@UKLaureate
, this is to "ensure that the ambitions laid out at the start of her tenure can become a reality and make a tangible difference to children’s lives":
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Thankyou
@itvnews
for having me on the programme on a very busy news day to discuss the
#greatschoollibraries
research showing children on free school meals are TWICE as likely to have no library in their school - libraries are statutory in prisons but not in schools
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This is very sad...I keep hearing this, and it's why I started a
#freewritingfriday
campaign. Fifteen minutes, every Friday, for a child to write WHATEVER THEY WANT in a special notebook that the teacher can't mark... No rules, no marking, just fun... much love to yr grandson
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Am launching a campaign for
#FreeWritingFriday
- children to have a book to write in that isn’t marked and they can write whatever they want pls RT
Have you heard the news?
@CressidaCowell
is launching a very special campaign tomorrow called
#FreeWritingFriday
& is encouraging all schools to take part. Check out our introduction to the campaign & please feel free to RT / tag a teacher ⭐️ 'We need the creators of tomorrow!'
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Am SO excited! See here below the first trailer for the third Dragon movie...It's going to be AMAZING...
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My daughter Clemmie’s stunning portrait of my son Xan when he was younger…She’s started posting some of her beautiful art and illustration on Instagram on
@clementinecowellart
#proudmama
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On the little Scottish island that was the inspiration for
#howtotrainyourdragon
there is a hill behind the house where I spent all my summers as a child that I thought looked exactly like the back of a sleeping dragon…
#innerhebrides
#mostbeautifulplaceintheworld
❤️🐉
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Public and school libraries are closing. If your parents can’t afford books, and you have no school or public library, how are you supposed to become a reader for pleasure?
#librarycuts
@Literacy_Trust
Library funding cuts mean we are denying people the joy of reading for pleasure |
@CressidaCowell
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Zero, the newest member of the Cowell family, is Very Cute Indeed ❤️
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VERY excited to reveal the cover of The Wizards of Once Knock Three Times, out this September
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If you’d like to download an A3 version of my
#Childrenslaureatecharter
for your school or your library or for anywhere at all, see below
We've seen so much love for
@CressidaCowell
's brilliant Waterstones
#ChildrensLaureate
Charter! If you'd like to download an A3 version for your school/library/home/anywhere, here's a PDF link 🙌
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VERY bad news. DECADES of research shows reading for pleasure is related to a child’s later economic success, not to mention their educational prospects, and emotional wellbeing
#readingismagic
#magicisforEVERYONE
School and public libraries are an essential not a luxury.
⏰ Wake-up call! ⏰ 2023 shows the lowest levels of reading enjoyment since our records began. We need urgent action to ensure children have the skills they need. Read the research:
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With
@DeanDeBlois
at the
@DWAnimation
studio - just seen the complete movie of
#HowToTrainYourDragon3
, and it’s a total triumph...gloriously funny, deeply touching, hugely emotional and a visual feast...I’m a bit overcome
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Such happy news, here! How to Train Your Dragon, the Hidden World nominated for a Golden Globe
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (featuring
#DavidTennant
) nominated for Best Motion Picture - Animated Award at Golden Globes 2020
@CressidaCowell
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ALL children should have access to books, not just those children whose families can afford them
#NationalLibrariesDay
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So… THIS is exciting! Live action movie of How to Train Your Dragon coming out in March 2025, with the very brilliant Dean DeBlois, who directed all three animated How to Train Your Dragon movies, at the helm… ❤️🐉 !!!
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29th Feb is Hiccups birthday…
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In difficult times, we all have to pull together to protect the most vulnerable. No child should go hungry this winter.
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THANKYOU TO
@RoyalMail
who have teamed up with
@WorldBookDayUK
to create specially designed postboxes celebrating books and
#readingmagic
! Mine is in Oban, Scotland, near the incredibly beautiful place that inspired How to Train Your Dragon ...
#WBD2021
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Library cuts a social mobility time bomb
@JDLiteracyTrust
@NickPoole1
@chrisriddell50
@malorieblackman
@MichaelRosenYes
@frankcottrell_b
@Literacy_Trust
#savelibraries
Children's Laureate
@CressidaCowell
is breathing fire over library cuts. Policy makers don't use them so don't understand their importance, she tells
@EtanSmallman
in
@Daily_Express
today
#savelibraries
Her new Wizards of Once, Knock Three Times, is out now - it is brilliant
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So THRILLED and proud that How to Train your Dragon: the Hidden World has been nominated for an Oscar!
#fingerscrossed
@Dreamworks
Congratulations to
@CressidaCowell
for the success of HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD. Deservedly nominated yesterday for an Academy Award!
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Wonderful cosplay, you make a magnificent Hiccup, XXX
Bere are some more photographs of my 'Hiccup' cosplay captured by Anod Thanigasalam and Anjana Nishal Darmasiri.
The whole costume was handmade by my self using EVA foam and rexine. Hope you'll like it!
#httyd3
#dreamworksanimation
#hiccup
#lcc2019
@Dreamworks
@HTTYD3_Movie
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BEYOND excited to visit the truly incredible set of the new live action How to Train Your Dragon movie now filming in Belfast! Here with wonderful director
@DeanDeBlois
, this is going to be magnificent!
Photo credit:
@helenstills
#httydragon
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Wonderful, magnificent David Tennant is going to be reading the Wizards of Once, Knock Three Times on audio, out in October
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Calling everyone with a young dragon-creator in their lives! They could win THIS original picture, shown below, of Toothless and Stormfly if they enter my competition to create their own dragon... ends 15th April, details here:
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Genius composer John Powell sent me a book of his incredible music for
#HowToTrainYourDragon3
- John really has outdone himself this time, the music is stunning and really brings out the emotion in the film
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With genius director
@DeanDeBlois
at the British film institute for a preview screening of
#HowToTrainYourDragon3
which is coming out in the U.K. NEXT WEEK!!!!
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Bookshops open just in time for my birthday! How handy. Here in my local
@Waterstones
in Chiswick with
@MichaelRosenYes
new book ‘Many Different Kinds of Love’ and Monty Don’s ‘My Garden World’
#choosebookshops
#supportyourlocalbookshop
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The bag that I designed for Independent Bookshop Week has arrived!
#readingismagic
and
#magicisforeveryone
#booksaremybag
#choosebookshops
@BAbooksellers
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How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, is my favourite of the three Dragon movies - it’s an absolute emotional rollercoaster, so moving as well as funny, and John Powell has outdone himself with the music
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Over 100 MILLION books given away by Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library to date! 15 MILLION books a year...each one mailed to the child with their name on it...’The Library That Dolly Built’ film showing on Facebook right now
@dollyslibrary
#bookmagic
❤️
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Have NEARLY finished my book. Path to the writing shed, June, later than is, strictly speaking, optimal
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so proud x
The whole world knows about us now -
#HowToTrainYourDragon
: The Hidden World is the
#1
Movie in America! Get your tickets:
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Am guest editing
@BBCWomansHour
10 am this morning! Chatting the Magic of books, lost words, and woods with
@LawrencePatrice
and
@JackieMorrisArt
, and also audio books of Wizards and Dragon so if you are interested in
@David_Tennant
it MIGHT be worth a listen...just sayin'
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With my lovely husband Simon at Windsor Castle, now THAT really IS a splendid castle, Simon looking remarkably relaxed considering I took so long getting ready we only had ten minutes to get there
#getmetotheinvestitureontime
#MBE
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With brilliant director
@DeanDeBlois
at the premiere of
#HowToTrainYourDragon3
in L.A. yesterday - 12 years, Three wonderful movies
#so
proud
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The third in my
#WizardsofOnce
series and is coming out in September and it's called KNOCK THREE TIMES...
The third book in
@CressidaCowell
's bestselling
#WizardsofOnce
series is coming THIS YEAR and we are thrilled to reveal the title below... ✨
THE WIZARDS OF ONCE: KNOCK THREE TIMES is available for pre-order now:
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I don't know what a fronted adverbial is, or an expanded noun phrase. But I love writing, and reading, and doing both for the joy of it. I hope your 9 year old keeps loving writing despite the adverbials (I don't know what they are, but they sound malevolent)
#FreewritingFriday
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New poster for the third Dragon movie which is coming out next March - am SO excited and proud
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I’m doing Daily Dispatches from my shed and you can listen to my readings of How to Train Your Dragon on YouTube at Cressidacowell or on
@BookTrust
website... Ch 1 Httyd up now and also That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown for younger listeners
#BookTrustHomeTime
#Unitedbybooks
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Thankyou
@theguardian
! For children growing up in this cost of living crisis, school libraries should be a necessity rather than an optional extra
ALL children should be able to read for pleasure
@Literacy_Trust
@WorldBookDayUK
@uksla
@frankcottrell_b
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Absolutely thrilled at last to announce my NEW series, publishing with
@HachetteKids
this September! I wrote the first lines of WHICH WAY TO ANYWHERE a long long time ago (shoot, I think it could be 25 years ago, surely not?) even before
#howtotrainyourdragon
...
.
@HachetteKids
has landed an "out-of-this-world new adventure series" from multi-million-selling author and illustrator
@CressidaCowell
, which kicks off with Which Way To Anywhere, with the series having been 25 years in the making! More here:
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Magnificent David Tennant will be narrating Wizards of Once
#KnockThreeTimes
and that will be coming out in February
David Tennant Narrates The Wizards Of Once: Knock Three Times Coming To Download In February
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In the first chapter of
#HowToTrainYourDragon
Hiccup has to climb a cliff that looks like a face, and in the right eye there���s a cave with a dragon Nursery in it… well, on the little Scottish island where I spent all my summers as a child, there really is such a cliff…
❤️📚
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I’m sure we can all remember our first Shirley Hughes book. Mine was Lucy and Tom’s Day. She was extraordinarily good at seeing the world through the eyes of a child, Rest in peace, Shirley Hughes , Dogger, Alfie, Lucy and Tom, classics all…
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And it's important to read aloud way beyond the age they can read for themselves, as well...
Whether you're a:
-Parent
-Primary teacher
-Secondary teacher
this matters!
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Wow!
#HowtoTrainYourDragon3
came out in Australia, to GREAT reviews, particularly love this one: 'After three brilliant rides, we bid farewell to one of the best film trilogies of all time...' SO many congrats to
@DeanDeBlois
and the team at
@DWAnimation
#Toothlessforever
XXX
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At DreamWorks talking about the Wizards of Once, the Story Behind the Story - v exciting they are making this movie!
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All the research shows the important thing is reading for pleasure, not because you ‘ought’ to... Tell your son from me of course he isn’t too old to read Wimpy Kid and Happy Reading xxx
10yr old son told at school he is “too old for reading Diary Of A Wimpy Kid” infront of entire class. This does not encourage a love of reading.
#WritingCommunity
#authors
#teachers
back me up here please!
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Okay - just went on Blue Peter and they gave me a GOLD Blue Peter badge! Absolutely thrilled
#lifetimeambitionsfulfilled
THANKYOU Blue Peter
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The closure of school libraries is a social mobility time bomb
One in eight disadvantaged children in the UK do not own a book:
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Early evening, March, Pigeon on her way to the writing shed
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Tomorrow, before reading a chapter of How to Train Your Dragon on my Youtube channel, I’m going to be sending a special message from
@WHO
,
@UNICEF
and
@IntPublishers
...
#ReadtheWorld
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Am OVER THE MOON that The Wizards of Once has won Best Story in the Blue Peter Book awards!Thankyou blue Peter
@CBBC
@Booktrust
and all the kids who voted
📢 BIG NEWS! On
#WorldBookDay
, we're THRILLED to announce the winners of the
#BluePeter
Book Awards - first up, the hugest of congratulations to
@CressidaCowell
for winning Best Story with
#TheWizardsOfOnce
!
#BPBA
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So delighted to announce that all-round acting GENIUS David Tennant will be narrating the Wizards of Once:Never and Forever on audio, out next May! He is 'a one-man Archipelago all on his own', and he's been bringing my books to life with magnificent panache for 17 years now...
David Tennant To Narrate The Wizards Of Once: Never And Forever
#DavidTennant
#TheWizardsOfOnce
@CressidaCowell
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Absolutely THRILLED to be given the Ruth Rendell Award for services to Literacy last night - so many thanks to
@Literacy_Trust
,
@ALCS
and the judging panel
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THRILLED to announce that incomparable genius David Tennant has read the last
#WizardsofOnce
book,
#NeverandForever
, releasing 1st April. I am BEYOND LUCKY that David has performed all of my books for audio, pure magic,
@davidtennantcom
Pre-order here:
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Still buzzing after being given an honorary doctorate
@uniofbrighton
yesterday - Thankyou to John Vernon-Lord, Chris Mullen and George Hardie my tutors, whose brilliant teaching on the M.A. at Brighton was crucial to me in inspiring my career
#teachingchangeslives
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Plant a tree on 30th November and join the
#BigClimateFightback
!
@WoodlandTrust
is hoping that 1 million trees will be planted across the country on this day
#evenifyourelittleyoucandoalot
#planettoreadon
#magicoftrees
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Buzzing from a wonderful event where Queen Camilla, in her first public engagement since the coronation, opened the FIVE HUNDREDTH primary school library in
@Literacy_Trust
’s wonderful
#PrimarySchoolLibraryAlliance
initiative…so exciting!
#lovelibraries
#readingismagic
❤️📚
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Hugely excited to show my new fantasy series, The Wizards of Once, title and cover. Publishing 19th Sept
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Public libraries and libraries in primary schools are closing. How then are children from families that cannot afford books going to be able to become readers for pleasure? This is a social mobility time bomb. There is a petition below that you could sign and RT
I have a meeting at the House of Commons next week where I can use this petition as evidence of public support for
#library
funding - please RT, share & ask family and friends to sign!
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ONE THOUSAND libraries opened in primary schools in three years by
@Literacy_Trust
s incredible
#LibrariesforPrimaries
campaign! Magnificent party on Tuesday to celebrate this amazing achievement!
One in seven schools have no library, so this is such urgent, important work…
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THANKYOU to all the friends, family, publishing friends, journalists, booksellers, World Book Day, NLT, fellow authors who came to the screening of
#HowToTrainYourDragon3
at BAFTA yesterday
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On this rainy Saturday lunchtime I bring you a picture of our new puppy Zero taking a nap. You’re welcome.
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VERY exciting to meet Dolly Parton at the premiere of 9 to 5 this evening...it was absolutely brilliant
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It’s the 20 year book birthday of
#howtotrainyourdragon
🐉. This a first edition, next to the anniversary edition, with a new short story, How to Train Your Hogfly, in.
This me, age 9, writing about dragons. The world will need a hero, and it might as be YOU.
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With two little dragons at the screening of
#HowToTrainYourDragon3
at the British Film Institute this afternoon
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About to go on
@BBCBreakfast
, oh yes…
Talking about Dragons (new live-action film) and my new book (
#WhichWayRoundtheGalaxy
) and
#readingforpleasure
I imagine
(Mustn’t forget to take the curlers out…)
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With genius director
@DeanDeBlois
at the DreamWorks studio - Dean directed all three Dragon films and so emotional to see the third one nearly completed... Dean and the whole Dragon team
@DWAnimation
have now made THREE magnificent movies
#Dragon3
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@frankcottrell_b
not a question, but after my talk my publicist overheard one kid say in all seriousness to another, 'Yes, well of course the 1970s were the Dark Ages'
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I think people don't realise that MANY schools have no library... 1 in 8 according to this recent survey, and there are LESS libraries in primary schools and in schools with a higher proportion of children on free school meals.
@CressidaCowell
@itvnews
Sorry... there are some schools with no library??????? I’m struggling to understand how you would call it a school
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Calling all dragon-makers! Create your own dragon species, and you could win this signed drawing of Toothless and Stormfly... full details on my youtube channel here:
Share on insta, twitter or facebook with the hashtag
#CreateWithCress
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Can't believe it's been 20 YEARS since the first How to Train Your Dragon book came out!
In honour of which, have written a short story set in that
#howtotrainyourdragon
world for the first time since about 2014 or something...
Was like re-visiting old friends, v nostalgic ❤️
"It’s extraordinary to think that a story I created in my writing shed 20 years ago became 12 books"
@HachetteKids
will publish a "sumptuous" anniversary edition of the first book in
@CressidaCowell
's How to Train Your Dragon series.
Read here:
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(I don’t know HOW I’m going to judge this competition! A random selection below of some of the MAGNIFICENTLY creative dragons I’m being sent under the hashtag
#CreateWithCress
) ... ❤️
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I'm giving away 20 PROOF COPIES of the final book in the Wizards of Once quartet, Never and Forever, which publishes 17th September. For your chance to win a copy, follow me and comment below who YOU think the narrator is by 23:59 on Sunday 16th August
#whoistheWizardsnarrator
?
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I am delighted that the government has removed the tax on ebooks. Reading has measurable, real-life benefits; the removal of this tax widens access to books and is particularly important for those with disabilities and children just discovering the joy of reading.
We are delighted that the government has announced plans to
#AxeTheReadingTax
and zero-rate VAT on digital books and journals. It’s fantastic that
@RishiSunak
has acknowledged the huge value of reading and will bring an end to this illogical and unfair tax.
#Budget2020
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Woo-hoo! THRILLED with the 20 year anniversary edition of How to Train Your Dragon with first NEW short story set in that world that I have written for seven years (where did the time go??)
Pretty, no? And a HARDBACK (how to Train Your Dragon in paperback till Fury)
❤️📚
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Drawing Hiccup and Toothless on the wall of
@EdinBookshop
(Thankyou to Marie for holding the ladder) ...
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Absolutely thrilled to have been made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, announced today, I feel very honoured.
Cressida Cowell MBE (
@CressidaCowell
) is the current
@Waterstones
Children's Laureate, a Trustee of
@WorldBookDayUK
, an ambassador for the
@Literacy_Trust
and
@WoodlandTrust
, and she is on the Council of the
@Soc_of_Authors
. She is an Honorary Fellow of
@KebleOxford
.
#FRSL201
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