It could really be how to train your parents or how to be a parent. When I started writing the first book, I just had a baby. So the trueness exists in both senses, about the place and the human relationship. "Stoick the Vast is a version of my father, who I love very much but I wasn't very like him. So, I used to think, what if the Vikings were right? What if they really were dragons? I used to play in the cage, looking for dragons," she said.Ĭowell says the character of Stoick the Vast is based on her father. "My dad used to read these stories from the Vikings, and they believed that dragons really existed. It was the stories about the Vikings that made her believe in dragons, and look for them. There was no television in the little house, and this was the place where the Vikings came first," Cowell said. When I was nine, we started spending the whole summer on that island. It was an extraordinary experience for a child. "There was nothing on the island, no houses, no roads, no electricity and we were just camping.
He was an environmentalist and every year from when I was a baby we would go to this uninhabited island off the West Coast of Scotland. He was a businessman, and he lived in a house (around) a garden in central London. "I grew up in London because my dad's job was in London. "The series is based on a true story," Cowell told IANS when asked about the starting point of the idea behind the story. Children's author Cowell wrote the popular "How To Train Your Dragon" series of 12 books, which have already inspired three successful animation hits in Hollywood.Ĭowell says her fantasy imagination reflects realities of her childhood.
British author Cressida Cowell would vouch for the fact. The fantasy of animation often draws inspiration from realism of life.
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