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Cressida Cowell is a children's writer who overnight became world famous thanks to the adaptation of one of her books. "How to Train Your Dragon" is a fairly popular cartoon. Today, millions of children around the world enjoy watching the life and adventures of the characters invented by the British writer.
Biography
The writer was born and still lives in London. She is married. Together with her beloved, she brings up two daughters and a son. Their family also has cats - Baloo and Lilu.
When Cressida Cowell was little, her family went to a desert island, which is located near Scotland. On this small piece of land there are no roads, electricity, telephones. Cressida's family spent several weeks there at first. As soon as her father built a small house on the island, bought a boat, they were able to spend the whole summer there.
Every summer evening on a desert island ended with my father's stories about the Vikings. He said that they lived here 1200 years ago. The Viking tribes constantly fought among themselves and united in the fight against dragons. Fire-breathing monsters livedin caves that are located right in the cliffs.
Cressida entered the university immediately after high school. I studied English there for a long time. And then she also graduated from college, becoming a graphic designer and illustrator.
Books
The most famous work written by Cressida Cowell is How to Train Your Dragon. However, this is a whole series, which consists of 12 books. The main character in them is Hiccup Bloodthirsty Karasik III. And the series itself is his memoir. In them, he talks about his childhood.
Cressida Cowell has been known in London for a long time. And she became famous all over the world thanks to the film adaptation of her very first book about Hiccup.
Not all books from the series about the young Viking have been translated into Russian. But Russian children are looking forward to the new adventures of Hiccup, his friends and, of course, dragons.
Not only works about Vikings and dragons were written by Cressida Cowell. She also created books about Emily Brown:
- "This rabbit belongs to Emily Brown";
- "Emily Brown and the Thing";
- "Emily Brown and the Elephant Incident"
In addition to the series, Cressida has written several independent children's books. True, until they are translated into Russian.
Recognition and reviews
Popular Cressida Cowell woke up in 2010. It was then that DreamWorks released the feature-length animated film How to Train Your Dragon. Four years later, the second part of the cartoon came out. And in 2018 it is plannedcreate another series that will be the final one.
All the books in the How to Train Your Dragon series have a huge amount of reviews. Most of them belong to critics of the most diverse publishing houses that exist in the world. And many of these reviews are positive. These books also received high marks on the most famous Internet portals, where ordinary readers are the main judges:
- Goodreads - Score 4, 3 out of a maximum possible 5 points;
- "Imhonet" - 8, 4 out of the maximum possible 10 points.
Father's stories about ancient times, where Vikings and dragons reigned, for Cressida Cowell were not in vain. Adding her imagination, she has created amazing and captivating books for children and their parents.
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