Sign Up Today To Join Cressida Cowell On March 6th For A Free Classroom Broadcast & Live Q & A Event!

Our friends from Microsoft and Little Brown, have announced a very special event for World Book Day on March 6, 2019!  

On this day, children, librarians, teachers and families around the world can sign up this free classroom broadcast and live Q & A event as we learn how to bring stories to life with the How To Train Your Dragon, author and illustrator, Cressida Cowell. 

As the registration page states, 

Go behind the scenes to learn how stories come alive in this free 30-minute classroom broadcast with the author & illustrator of How to Train Your Dragon. Cressida will inspire students to tap into their boundless imagination and will show how using character development and details in stories make them more believable and fun.

The broadcast is 30 minutes, followed by an optional 1 hour live chat so students can ask questions. If your class is not in session at these times, don't worry! Register anyways and we'll send you the on-demand version when it's available and instructions for submitting questions for Cressida.

Simply register here for one of these times above. 

We can't wait to join from Van Meter, Iowa on that day! 

They have also put together a few resources that will help you prepare and build excitement around this very special event with Cressida and World Book Day. 

First, there is a video called An Introduction by Cressida Cowell that you will find here on this event page. 

This is truly a wonderful way to build excitement with Cressida before the event on March 6, and one that they will be excited about as she shares her very last book (Book 12) in the How To Train Your Dragon series. 

There is also a Step by Step Activity Plan from Skype in the Classroom that will help you as plan with ideas, scripts and a step by step guide.

You will find this amazing resource here. 

 Cressida also has a wonderful website where you can read about her work,

 books,

and learn how to follow her on social media. 

My students in Iowa can't wait for this awesome opportunity to hear Cressida talk about some of their favorite books and movies, and of course, her new series, The Wizards of Once. 

You can sign up here today for free too!