Cressida Cowell
British children's author and illustrator; How to Train Your Dragon.
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- Cressida Cowell is a British children's author and illustrator, best known for the How to Train Your Dragon series, which DreamWorks Animation made into a film franchise.
- She also wrote The Wizards of Once and, with illustrator Neal Layton, the Emily Brown picture books.
- She was appointed Children's Laureate in 2019.
Key facts
- Born
- 15 April 1966, London1
- Education
- English, Keble College, Oxford; illustration at Saint Martin's School of Art and Brighton University1
- Awards
- Nestlé Children's Book Prize Gold Award for That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown (2006); Blue Peter Book Award for The Wizards of Once (2018)1
- Honours
- Children's Laureate (2019); MBE (2020); Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (2021)1
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