Cressida Cowell, Lauren Child

How to Train Your Dragon creator Cressida Cowell and Charlie and Lola Clarice Bean and Ruby Redfort creator Lauren Child are both internationally bestselling authors and have been friends since they met at school. In this exclusive event they discuss their lives and work as well as their passion for libraries literacy and great children's literature. They'll share some school photos and spill the beans on the early influences that turned them into writers.Cowell's How to Train Your Dragon was turned into an award-winning animated film by the renowned DreamWorks Animation team. She is also author of the Emily Brown series the first of which That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown won a Nestlé Children's Book Award. Child is a writer and illustrator. Her first Charlie and Lola book I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato won the Kate Greenaway Medal for most distinguished illustration in a book for children and was voted third best winner in the first 50 years of the medal.Age 8+