Cressida Cowell

About Cressida Cowell

Author of the How to Train Your Dragon book series for children. She also worked on the popular Emily Brown series with artist Neal Layton.

Cressida Cowell is an English children's author, popularly known for the book series, How to Train Your Dragon, which has subsequently become an award-winning franchise as adapted for the screen by DreamWorks Animation. As of 2015, the series has sold more than seven million copies around the world. In addition to her other publications, Cowell works with illustrator Neal Layton in the ongoing series of Emily Brown stories. The first in the series, That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown, won a Nestlé Children's Book Award.

Notable works	How to Train Your Dragon
Occupation	Writer
Alma mater	University of Oxford
Born	April 15, 1966, London, England

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Trivia

She was honored with the Nestle Children's book award for her work, That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown.

Cressida Cowell before fame

She studied English at Keble College, Oxford and later trained at both St. Martin's School of Art and Brighton University. In 2003, she released her first How to Train Your Dragon book.

Achievement of Cressida Cowell

For her novel That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown, she received the Nestle Children's Book Award.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

$15 Million

Cressida Cowell family life

With her husband, Simon, she has three children: Maisie, Clementine, and Alexander.

Associations of Cressida Cowell

She wrote How to Train Your Dragon, which was turned into an animated film featuring the voice acting of Jay Baruchel.

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