From the bestselling author of How to Train Your Dragon and The Wizards of Once comes an out-of-this-world new adventure ... K2 O'Hero is a seemingly ordinary boy - after all, he and his twin sister Izzabird have been sworn to keep their family's magical history a secret. Not even their infuriating stepsiblings, Theo and Mable, know that magic exists. They believe K2 to be the most hopeless person they have ever known.But K2 has a secret gift: he draws maps of worlds that are beyond the wildest of imaginations. Worlds with six hundred moons, burning rivers and dark, twisty jungles alive with plants that hunt by the smell of fear. But what K2 doesn't know, is that the maps he draws are real. When their baby sister Annipeck is kidnapped, the warring stepsiblings will have to use K2's gift to find a crossing point into one of those worlds and embark on a daring rescue mission. With a terrible beast and a petrifying robot assassin in their way, they must learn to work together quickly - because the future of their family is at stake ...
From the bestselling author of How to Train Your Dragon and The Wizards of Once comes an out-of-this-world new adventure ... K2 O'Hero is a seemingly ordinary boy - after all, he and his twin sister Izzabird have been sworn to keep their family's magical history a secret. Not even their infuriating stepsiblings, Theo and Mable, know that magic exists. They believe K2 to be the most hopeless person they have ever known.But K2 has a secret gift: he draws maps of worlds that are beyond the wildest of imaginations. Worlds with six hundred moons, burning rivers and dark, twisty jungles alive with plants that hunt by the smell of fear. But what K2 doesn't know, is that the maps he draws are real. When their baby sister Annipeck is kidnapped, the warring stepsiblings will have to use K2's gift to find a crossing point into one of those worlds and embark on a daring rescue mission. With a terrible beast and a petrifying robot assassin in their way, they must learn to work together quickly - because the future of their family is at stake ...
Cressida Cowell is the author and the illustrator of the globally bestselling How to Train Your Dragon series. Her next series, The Wizards of Once, was an international bestseller. Cressida is also the author of the Emily Brown picture books, illustrated by Neal Layton. The Which Way series is her most recent and has already been translated into 15 languages.How to Train Your Dragon has sold over 8 million books worldwide in 42 languages. It is also an award-winning DreamWorks film series, and a TV series shown on Netflix and CBBC. The Wizards of Once has been translated into 38 languages and also signed by DreamWorks.Cressida was the Waterstones Children's Laureate (2019-2022). She is an ambassador for the National Literacy Trust and the Reading Agency and a founder patron of the Children's Media Foundation. She has won numerous prizes for her books, including the Gold Award in the Nestle Children's Book Prize, the Hay Festival Medal for Fiction, and Philosophy Now' magazine's 2015 Award for Contributions in the Fight Against Stupidity.She grew up in London and on a small, uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland and she now lives in Hammersmith with her husband, three children and a dog called Pigeon.
'A new series by Cressida Cowell is always an event.... a highly
imagined roller-coaster of a fantasy, written with the author's
familiar panache...[A]s with all the best fantasy there is skilled
balance between humdrum drama and high thrills...a joyously
anarchic story which addresses the theme of childhood loss with
real psychological acuity. And at the heart of this modern fantasy
a very modern message: that those who appear to be worlds apart
often have more in common than they assume.'
*The Telegraph*
Wild magic, Cowell's trademark bonkers humour, rich
environmentalism and the complexities of family love are woven
deftly through the first book in a fabulous new series
*The Guardian*
'A new Cressida Cowell series lifts the spirits as autumn damp
descends...A witty, rip-roaring battle of good and evil, secrets
and lies, monsters and magic ensues, illustrated with Cowell's
signature black and white sketches, and underpinned by an
ecological message. FAB-U-LOUS.
*The Daily Mail*
'a pacey, thrill-packed, highly imaginative new series that should
pull in the most reluctant readers'
*The Times Children’s Book of the Week*
This rollicking story never lets up in energy, inventiveness
and...good humour... Cressida Cowell is a genuine one-off....
Started 25 years ago, this story now forms the cornerstone for what
looks likely to be yet another wildly popular series still to
come.
*Books for Keeps*
[T]his thrilling, past-paced adventure will whisk you away on a
fascinating journey of imagination.
*The Week Junior*
Embraces the philosophical while also being huge fun. It has
laughs, silliness, seriousness, a diverse blended family, a shy boy
with a secret gift, an environmental message, magical maps of other
worlds, monstrous beasts, a robot assassin, a pacey plot and
Cowell's trademark riotous drawings.
*The Sunday Times*
Readers are dragged straight into a thrilling adventure story from
the very first page with Cressida Cowell's ultra welcoming text and
inviting illustrations. They are the kind of illustrations that are
beautiful but also super unintimidating, the kind that make kids
want to get out a pencil and draw their own pictures. This fits so
well with the story, which is at its heart about the power of
children's creativity and imagination
*BookTrust*
'In my opinion, this is the best story the author has written.'
Without a shadow of a doubt, this will be one of the best reads of
the year. The story strikes a quirky balance of wild and outrageous
storytelling that only great authors can dream up. It is full of
brilliant characters, dialogue, and a daring rescue mission with
terrible beasts and a robot assassin.... Dream BIG and travel
well.
*https://www.mrripleysenchantedbooks.com/2022/08/cressida-cowell-which-way-to-anywhere.html*
Which Way to Anywhere is such a fun novel...a fun, thrilling
many-worlds fantasy with magic and technology and a whole lot of
heart.
*www.bookwormhole.co.uk*
Toppsta children's reviews:
'We have loved all of Cressida Cowell's books and 'Which way to
anywhere' is no exception! I love how the beautiful line drawn
illustrations that covered the pages of her Wizards of Once series
have continued in her new book as I really feel they give another
dimension to the story. If you love adventure stories and magic
then you'll love this book! I really hope it is made into a
series.' Stjohnsyear6
'Amazing, amazing, amazing!
Two families are thrown together by marriage and, they don't like
each other very much. However, a number of strange and wonderful
things happen that mean that they have to work together and put
their differences aside if they are to save the world.
I loved this book as it was epic and fast paced and crazy... I
especially loved the toothbrushes!' 9 year old The-face
'I have always loved Cressida Cowell's books, and this wasn't an
exception. It says at the back of the book that it may become a
series! I really hope the next one will come out soon and that I
can get my hands on it to read. This book is very enthralling
adventure story and is just as good as How to Train your Dragon and
The Wizards of Once. It is very bad for bedtimes, if you read it at
bedtime like I did; you don't notice it getting later and later and
you may be very tired the next morning! This book has also got
brilliant grey drawings, they make me laugh because they have
little features that are similar with the characters in the
author's other books. I liked these similarities because I could
even link all her book's characters as descendants of each other
and all of them fitted together to almost make one story.'
Dragonrider age 10
*https://toppsta.com/books/details/381721/which-way-to-anywhere#reviews*
Magical worlds as only Cressida Cowell can. Just like The Wizards
of Once series, this first book in the Which Way to Anywhere series
is incredibly imaginative while this time linking into normal daily
life and family matters with a blended family struggling to get
along.
There is also an environmental thread where humans have been the
key in driving a beautiful species to near extinction. But they
also may have the answer to bring it back to its full
potential.
The characters are all quirky in their own way, my favourite being
K2 who has always been overshadowed by his loud, feisty twin sister
Izzabird. All he wants is to prove himself, and he finally gets an
opportunity to do something none of his siblings can - help save
their baby sister.
An out of this world, exciting, funny, gripping and magical
adventure!
*www.whatbooknext.com*
I have missed 'The Wizards of Once' so much since the series ended,
and 'Which Way to Anywhere' fills that black hole inside of me
where 'Wizards' once occupied. The hallmark Cowellisms are present,
with enough creativity to carve its own path in children's
literature and make me excited to read more in this world. This is
the perfect balance of silly and sentimental, with scenes in the
third act worthy of tissues. Characters are alive and imperfect,
providing a truly fantastic trajectory of growth and learning that
readers will learn and grow from themselves. I can always rely on
Cowell's characters to do the impossible, all the while reminding
us that we can do the impossible ourselves if we only try.
A truly exciting and fast-paced plot that not even my two kittens
could distract me from, the illustrations also fed my imagination.
Cressida Cowell's stories are my comfort reads, and 'Which Way to
Anywhere' deserves its place in Cowell's iconic bibliography, as it
soars just as high as 'How to Train Your Dragon' and enchants us
just as much as 'The Wizards of Once'.
*Gavin Hetherington, BookTuber*
The depths of our Children's Laureate's imagination knows no bounds
in this action-packed adventure about a boy who can create maps to
transport himself into imaginary worlds... With a colourful cast of
goodies and baddies, this is an epic start to a new series
*The Bookseller*
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