Cressida Cowell Book-Signing

Wednesday 25th November 2026

Leicester Grammar School plus visiting schools 

The Children's Room at the Barn

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 be signing copies of her latest books purchased from Kibworth Books - HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON SCHOOL: FIGHT OF THE FLAMESTRIKE, WHICH WAY TO THE FUTURE, and her other books too.

To purchase books for your child 

1. Add to basket your required titles. 
2. Go to your shopping basket. (Do not use the ‘Buy with Shop’ option at this point).
3. Please note your child's name, class and school name in the Note to Bookseller comment box. This is essential so we can get your child's book/s to them. 
4. Click on the grey ‘check out' button
5. Please click ‘Collection’ as your delivery option. Kibworth Books will deliver books to the school for signing by the author. There is no delivery fee to pay. 
6. Enter payment details and proceed to review order and check out.
7. NB. Your automated order confirmation will not include your child's name but we will be in touch manually to confirm the order has been processed. 

If you need any assistance with your order, or would like to order any Cressida Cowell titles not visible here, please contact the bookshop team on info@kibworthbooks.com or 0116 279 1121

Need to Know Info:

Bookings for the book-signing event close at midnight on Sunday 22nd November. If you would like to purchase a book for the event after this date please do contact the bookshop as we may be able to help.

Cressida will be signing books purchased from Kibworth Books only. We politely request that you do not bring books purchased elsewhere to this signing as we will be unable to accommodate the signing of these due to strict timings for this event. 

About Cressida: 

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.