cressida cowell how to train your dragon

How to Train Your Dragon 3 is an absolutely magnificent ending to the film trilogy, and I am so very proud of all three movies. I cannot tell you how exciting it is to see your creations come alive on the big screen. How does it feel seeing your creations come to life on the big screen? They thought they were magic because they could exist in all four elements: air, fire, water and earth. In the evening, my father told us tales of the Vikings who invaded this island Archipelago twelve hundred years before, of the quarrelsome Tribes who fought and tricked each other, and of the legends of dragons who were supposed to live in the caves in the cliffs. The house was lit by candle-light, and there was no telephone or television, so I spent a lot of time drawing and writing stories. By the time I was eight, my family had built a small stone house on the island and from then on, every year we spent four weeks of the summer and two weeks of the spring on the island.

The island had no roads, houses or electricity, and I used to imagine that there were dragons living in the caves in the cliffs. The ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ books were inspired by the summers I spent as a child on a tiny, uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland. So there are Tree Dragons, Cutie dragons, Sky Dragons, and so on, and then different types within that. But the reason they’re not EXTREMELY silly is that, as you can see in my guide to dragons, Incomplete Book of Dragons, there is a whole world that does need to seem real to readers. Well, I do like to have names that are a TINY bit silly sometimes because I do like books that make me laugh. How do you manage to make up the names for the dragons? I, on the other hand, am a bit of a show-off and in a crisis situation I tend to panic and run around in circles. (He would actually make a great Leader of the Tribe one day if those stupid Hooligans would only recognize how lucky they were to have him as the Heir.) However, Hiccup is a diffident person who doesn’t put himself forward as Mr Important, but in fact he is full of clever ideas and very calm in a crisis. I identify with Hiccup a lot, because I think he is in a really difficult situation, trying to live up to a parent, (Stoick), who is very different from him. Cressida Cowell answers your most frequently asked questions, all in one place!Īre any of the characters in the Hiccup books like YOU?

Cressida cowell how to train your dragon