Cressida Cowell: How to Train Your Dragon School: Fight of the Flamestrike
The Carnival Hub, Wokingham, RG40 2AF
Saturday 17th October 2026
Meet multi-million-copy selling, 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 the latest book in her HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON SCHOOL series, FIGHT OF THE FLAMESTRIKE, talk about her inspiration and give writing and drawing tips to the children. Her events are energetic and inspiring and have been described as unmissable!
For ages 7+.
This event is in person. Lasting approx 45min
Doors will open from 12:30pm due to the large venue.
Book Signing
There will be no book signing after the event. However signed copies will be available to purchase (while stocks last) from our bookseller Fourbears.
If you would like a specific dedication and signature on a bookplate for your own book please add the bookplate sundry option to your ticket purchase and fill in the questionnaire as specified. One bookplate per ticket booked. Bookplate requests must be made at time of booking and finish a week before the event.
Cressida Cowell is the author and the illustrator of the globally bestselling How to Train Your Dragon series. Her next series, The Wizards of Once, was an international bestseller. Cressida is also the author of the Emily Brown picture books, illustrated by Neal Layton. The Which Way series is her most recent and has already been translated into 15 languages.
How to Train Your Dragon has sold over 8 million books worldwide in 42 languages. It is also an award-winning DreamWorks film series, and a TV series shown on Netflix and CBBC. The Wizards of Once has been translated into 38 languages and also signed by DreamWorks.
Cressida was the Waterstones Children's Laureate (2019-2022). She is an ambassador for the National Literacy Trust and the Reading Agency and a founder patron of the Children's Media Foundation. She has won numerous prizes for her books, including the Gold Award in the Nestle Children's Book Prize, the Hay Festival Medal for Fiction, and Philosophy Now' magazine's 2015 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 husband, three children and a dog called Pigeon.
For ages 7+.
This event is in person. Lasting approx 45min
Doors will open from 12:30pm due to the large venue.
Book Signing
There will be no book signing after the event. However signed copies will be available to purchase (while stocks last) from our bookseller Fourbears.
If you would like a specific dedication and signature on a bookplate for your own book please add the bookplate sundry option to your ticket purchase and fill in the questionnaire as specified. One bookplate per ticket booked. Bookplate requests must be made at time of booking and finish a week before the event.
Cressida Cowell is the author and the illustrator of the globally bestselling How to Train Your Dragon series. Her next series, The Wizards of Once, was an international bestseller. Cressida is also the author of the Emily Brown picture books, illustrated by Neal Layton. The Which Way series is her most recent and has already been translated into 15 languages.
How to Train Your Dragon has sold over 8 million books worldwide in 42 languages. It is also an award-winning DreamWorks film series, and a TV series shown on Netflix and CBBC. The Wizards of Once has been translated into 38 languages and also signed by DreamWorks.
Cressida was the Waterstones Children's Laureate (2019-2022). She is an ambassador for the National Literacy Trust and the Reading Agency and a founder patron of the Children's Media Foundation. She has won numerous prizes for her books, including the Gold Award in the Nestle Children's Book Prize, the Hay Festival Medal for Fiction, and Philosophy Now' magazine's 2015 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 husband, three children and a dog called Pigeon.
