Cressida Cowell
@CressidaCowell
Author & illustrator of ‘How to Train Your Dragon' ‘Wizards of Once' and ‘Which Way to Anywhere’, Media enquiries: [email protected]
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 booktrust.org.uk/news-and-featu…
🐉🚨ATTENTION HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON FANS🚨🐉 The BRAND NEW How to Train Your Dragon School Exhibition opens today at York Dig! It's an interactive exhibition inspired by the spin-off series from Cressida Cowell! #HTTYD #HowToTrainYourDragon #York @JORVIKDig @CressidaCowell
Introducing our incredible Windwalker - the newest member of our team here at DIG! You'll discover this and plenty more dragon-tastic activities during your visit this summer 🐉🤩 Book your visit now 👇 digyork.co.uk/cressida-cowel… #New #HowToTrainYourDragon @CressidaCowell
Tickets are now on sale for Henley Literary Festival 2025! 120+ events for adults & children, 3-12 October henleyliteraryfestival.co.uk
A very exciting How To Train Your Dragon competition from World Book Day!
WIN a How to Train Your Dragon bundle worthy of a hero! We’ve teamed up with @HachetteKids and Rubies to give one lucky winner: 🔥 A full set of 12 How to Train Your Dragon novels by Cressida Cowell 🔥 An exclusive art print by Cressida Cowell 🔥 A Toothless dress-up outfit…
The @nytimes featured @CressidaCowell in its “By the Book” column by Scott Heller, wherein she discusses her upcoming release HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON SCHOOL: DOOM OF THE DARKWING. (@LittleBrownYR) Cressida Cowell Loves to Peruse Recipes Before Bed nytimes.com/2025/07/03/boo…
A book is worth a thousand spelling tests. And, of course, without being able to read you can’t access the rest of the curriculum. These are not soft skills. This is not a soft subject, says @CressidaCowell on the @Literacy_Trust’s new initiative 👇 ebx.sh/axb4ov
THRILLED at this announcement at the #LibrariesforPrimaries event yesterday! When you consider one in seven schools do not have a library, this is so exciting! #❤️📚 Wonderful news!
We were thrilled to be at the Treasury yesterday as the Chancellor @RachelReevesMP committed to ensuring every primary school will have a library by the end of this Parliament.
Delighted to be back in Downing Street yesterday, this time in support of @Literacy_Trust s incredible #librariesforprimaries initiative, which has put libraries and a reading for pleasure culture into 1,500 primary schools in only 3 years! #❤️📚

My article in the Bookseller welcoming the Year of Reading 2026, announced yesterday with @educationgovuk and @Literacy_Trust …
A book is worth a thousand spelling tests. And, of course, without being able to read you can’t access the rest of the curriculum. These are not soft skills. This is not a soft subject, says @CressidaCowell on the @Literacy_Trust’s new initiative 👇 ebx.sh/axb4ov
"We're going to make sure that every primary school has got a library, but we're also going to make sure that every public library in the country is at the very heart of the campaign" - @JDLiteracyTrust #NationalYearOfReading
THRILLED to be at 10 Downing Street yesterday giving a speech welcoming Bridget Phillipson’s announcement that 2026 will be the National Year of Reading! EVERY child deserves access to books and to transformative power of reading @educationgovuk @Literacy_Trust @booktrust #❤️📚
🗓️ 2026 is the year of encouraging more young people to read. Before the official launch of #NationalYearofReading2026, @literacy_trust @educationgovuk will bring 72,000 new books this summer to children in areas with the highest rates of child poverty. Find out more.
Big news! 2026 has officially been announced as the National Year of Reading by @bphillipsonMP. We’re proud to join @educationgovuk to lead this national campaign to get the UK reading again. #NationalYearOfReading2026 nationalyearofreading.org.uk
THRILLED to be at 10 Downing Street yesterday giving a speech welcoming Bridget Phillipson’s announcement that 2026 will be the National Year of Reading! EVERY child deserves access to books and to transformative power of reading @educationgovuk @Literacy_Trust @booktrust #❤️📚
So excited that the HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON SCHOOL audiobook is out today, just in time for those long summer car journeys. You can hear a short extract read by the incredible David Tennant below!
Picture House Cinemas are hosting a fantastic competition to win a signed print from Cressida Cowell if you see one of their family films, including the brand new How To Train Your Dragon! Find out more here: picturehouses.com/blog/family-fi…
Have you ever wondered which of the Isle of Berk's many different Dragon types is right for you? Take the brand-new dragon matcher game to find out which scaly serpent is best suited to you and which books you can find them in on my website: cressidacowell.co.uk
The @Literacy_Trust #librariesforprimaries programme has opened an incredible ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED libraries in primary schools in only three years! Let’s get those children #readingforpleasure ! Because #readingismagic and #magicisforeveryone #❤️📚
THANKYOU to everyone who came to the launch party of my new book How to Train Your Dragon School, particularly to those who bought artwork in aid of @Literacy_Trust s incredible #librariesforPrimaries programme! #howtotrainyourdragon school is now at a bookshop near you! #❤️📚
At Jorvik Viking centre in York there’s an exciting #HowToTrainYourDragon celebration all summer - explore Hiccup’s bedroom and boat, greet a dragon in the sky, see details below… #makinghistoryfun
This summer at DIG, discover Cressida Cowell's How To Train Your Dragon School! 🐲 From 21st July, explore Hiccup's bedroom and boat, our NEW DIG pit, greet a Windwalker in the SKY and so much more! For more information, visit digyork.co.uk/cressida-cowel… @cressidacowellauthor
Look at these incredible dragons!!! 🐉 Thankyou for welcoming me to your school, Brooklands Primary! X
@brooklands_sale created some FANTASTIC dragons ahead of their visit from @cressidacowell yesterday! We were bowled over by the imagination, creativity and skill on display - AWESOME WORK!!
THANKYOU to all the young people and families who came to my event at @WaterstonesAlty Waterstones in Altrincham yesterday, it was lovely to meet you all! #❤️📚 #❤️🐉
What an absolutely epic and utterly joyous signing event that was! Thank you to everyone who came along to meet Cressida Cowell this afternoon...especially those of you who waited so patiently at the back of the queue! Signed copies in store now!