Cressida Cowell joins me to talk about The Ogre Downstairs by Diana Wynne Jones, the 1974 fantasy standalone. Cressida is the author of the multi-million selling How To Train Your Dragon series as well as brand new series Which Way to Anywhere. She was also the Children's Laureate from 2019 - 2022. We talk about coming back to the ideas your found intoxicating as a child, the importance of school libraries and why Diana Wynnes Jones made both of us the writers we are.

You can find the books we discussed here: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/bookwandering-the-podcast

And you can find out more about Cressida's Life-Changing Libraries campaign here: https://www.booktrust.org.uk/what-we-do/childrens-laureate/lifechanginglibraries/

This is the final episode of series one of Bookwandering, but we'll be back later in the year with series two. The podcast is produced by Adam Collier with artwork by Hester Kitchen.

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The Ogre Downstairs with Cressida Cowell