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978-1444979428

Which Way to the Future (Signed Bookplate)

Which Way to the Future (Signed Bookplate)

by Cressida Cowell

Publisher Hodder Children's Books

Genre: Children's & YA

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About the book

From the bestselling author of HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON comes the concluding story in an out-of-this-world new trilogy packed with epic adventure, thrilling space travel and forbidden Magic.

Planet Earth, in case you do not know it, is a small, green little world, out on the end of a remote and rarely visited Milky Way.

All Magic was 
supposed to have disappeared from this particular planet many centuries earlier.

But in an ordinary, slightly damp part of the planet there are five human children with extraordinary Magical Gifts that the universe has never seen before. Only two of them don't know it yet.

What will Mabel and Izzabird's Gifts be? And how will they navigate Bounty Hunters, a witch and three perilous tasks to reach the end of their story? After all, there's nothing like an adventure to find out whether you are a Hero or not . . .

WARNING: Contains Dangerous Space Travel and Very Illegal Magic

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About the Author

Cressida Cowell

Cressida Cowell grew up mostly in Central London. She has a BA in English Literature from Oxford, a BA in Graphic Design from St Martin’s and an MA in Narrative Illustration from Brighton.


Cressida wrote and illustrated her first picture book, Little Bo Peep’s Library Book for Hodder Children’s Books. This was followed by various picture books including Hiccup: The Viking Who Was Seasick, published in 2000. Hiccup returned in Cressida’s first novel for eight to twelve year olds, How To Train Your Dragon, published to popular and critical acclaim in 2003. Film rights were bought by Dreamworks Animation and the film was released in 2010. A sequel followed and a third film was released in 2018.


How To Train Your Dragon and its sequels have now been published in multiple languages and the final novel in the series, How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury, was published September 2015.


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