Cressida Cowell | Which Way to the Future
Sun 26 Apr 2026 | 10:00am - 11:00am
We welcome the return of festival superstar and award-winning author (and former Children’s Laureate) Cressida Cowell, creator of the book and film sensation How to Train Your Dragon, and other bestselling series Which Way to Anywhere and The Wizards of Once. Cressida will introduce her latest bestselling book, Which Way to the Future, talk about her inspiration and give writing and drawing tips. Her events are energetic, inspiring and unmissable.
Ages 7-12.
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Venue: TTP Stage (Cambridge Union)
Duration: 1 hour
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Author Biography
Children’s Laureate (2019-2022) Cressida Cowell MBE 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 16 million books worldwide in 46 languages. How to Train Your Dragon is also an Academy Award nominated billion-dollar DreamWorks film series, and a TV series shown on Netflix and CBBC; Which Way to Anywhere has also been optioned for film. Cressida is a patron of Read for Good, an ambassador for the National Literacy Trust and the Woodland Trust, and she is on the Council of the Society of Authors. She is an honorary fellow of Keble College, Oxford, and has an honorary doctorate from the University of Brighton. She has won numerous prizes for her books, including the Blue Peter Book Award, the Ruth Rendell Award for Championing Literacy, Gold Award in the Nestle Children’s Book Prize, the Hay Festival Medal for Fiction, and Philosophy Now magazine’s 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 dogs Pigeon and Zero.
