Cressida Cowell

The Wizards of Once author on almost being sick and her favourite ice cream.

Favourite piece of technology?

A book. It’s a doorway into other worlds; you can take it in the bath; it never runs out of batteries, and you can speak to people from the past, on the other side of the world or from a world that doesn’t exist.

What makes you happy? My family, my dog, eating, flowers (but not eating flowers), the sea, writing and drawing.

Rollercoasters: super fun, or super scary? Super scary and super sick-making. I nearly threw up going on the teacups recently, but I talked myself out of it because that would have been too embarrassing.

Favourite ice-cream flavour?

Dulce de leche, but this is a VERY tricky question.

Where is your favourite place in the world?

Either my house in London, or by the sea in western France.