“The response to this from teachers and children – drowning in SATs, and losing their love of creation for fear of making a mistake – has been overwhelmingly positive. She now wants to expand the campaign and is calling on fellow authors and illustrators to spread the word. She launched the Free Writing Friday campaign with the National Literary Trust last year, asking for teachers to let children have 15 minutes every Friday to write whatever they want in a special book, with no fear of marking. Her second task will be to argue for more creative space in the curriculum. “It really is impossible for a child to become a reader for the joy of it if their parents or carers can’t afford books, they don’t go to a public library, and their primary school hasn’t got a library,” she said. In the face of closures up and down the country, she will be campaigning for school libraries to be statutory, and arguing that public libraries need to be funded properly. A quest is also practical – in order to make progress there must be action.”Ĭowell said she had witnessed a discrepancy in the distribution of resources while touring schools around the UK, particularly in libraries, which will be her first focus as laureate. A quest is idealistic: there are impossible-seeming obstacles and many people will tell you not to bother trying. Luckily, anyone who has read my books will know that I love a quest.
Everywhere you look, it’s impossible and getting more impossible by the minute,” she said. “The telly is glorious, bookshops are closing, libraries are closing, librarians are disappearing, review space is shrinking, parents are knackered, the kids are on the Nintendo Switch. This book chronicles the adventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third as he tries to pass an important initiation by catching and training a dragon.Cressida Cowell on How to Train Your Dragon Guardian
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