Meeting your heroes

Cressida Cowell is the author and illustrator of the How to Train your Dragon series of books. She has just published the first book in a new series called The Wizards of Once. W loves the Dragon books and was made up when they started studying the first one in literacy at school.

Cressida happened to be speaking at the neighbouring town so I managed to get tickets which included a copy of the new book (published yesterday). Her talk was fabulous, something for the kids, telling them how great the arts are and that they can be writers, illustrators, graphic designers etc and encouraging the adults to read aloud to their children well past the age that they can read for themselves (something I am pleased to say I do).

Will asked her how much control she had over the films of her books during the Q and A session.

At the end we were at the back of a huge queue to get our books signed, but it was worth it as W got two posters, books signed and stamped with special stamps you only get if you meet her. He then asked for a photo with her as he didn't think his class would believe him and she said yes but also asked if I had a video camera. She then recorded a message to Beech Class saying who she was, what she had written and that she was with Will. Priceless.