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How to Train Your Dragon reading
Cressida reads an extract from her most famous book
  1. How to Train Your Dragon reading
    04:38
    How to Train Your Dragon reading
  2. Move it
    00:51
    Move it
  3. My dad knows everything
    04:26
    My dad knows everything
  4. Return of the bendy, bendy toothbrush
    05:50
    Return of the bendy, bendy toothbrush
  5. The noise!
    03:52
    The noise!
  6. The space
    01:18
    The space
  7. What is your favourite piece of work that you've written? What is your most treasured possession?
    03:19
    What is your favourite piece of work that you've written? What is your most treasured possession?
  8. Where do you get your ideas from? What is a poem?
    04:33
    Where do you get your ideas from? What is a poem?
  9. Pupils' questions
    07:21
    Pupils' questions
  10. How to draw emotions
    04:34
    How to draw emotions
  11. Beginnings
    01:47
    Beginnings
  12. Inspirations and Escaped Terrapin
    08:22
    Inspirations and Escaped Terrapin
  13. How do you come up with names for your characters?
    01:09
    How do you come up with names for your characters?
  14. Myths and Monsters
    11:48
    Myths and Monsters
  15. There’s Nothing Cuter Than A Puppy
    06:17
    There’s Nothing Cuter Than A Puppy
  16. Introducing us to new historical figures
    02:35
    Introducing us to new historical figures
  17. Reading from The Boy Who Made Monsters
    03:08
    Reading from The Boy Who Made Monsters
  18. Taking Up Boxing
    03:04
    Taking Up Boxing
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