Which Way To The Future
The out-of-this-world new series from the author of HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON
Published on 16. October 2025
Book
Hardback
432 pages
978-1-4449-7942-8 (ISBN)
Description
From the bestselling author of HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON comes the concluding story in an out-of-this-world new trilogy packed with epic adventure, thrilling space travel and forbidden Magic.
Planet Earth, in case you do not know it, is a small, green little world, out on the end of a remote and rarely visited Milky Way.
All Magic was supposed to have disappeared from this particular planet many centuries earlier.
But in an ordinary, slightly damp part of the planet there are five human children with extraordinary Magical Gifts that the universe has never seen before. Only two of them don't know it yet.
What will Mabel and Izzabird's Gifts be? And how will they navigate Bounty Hunters, a witch and three perilous tasks to reach the end of their story? After all, there's nothing like an adventure to find out whether you are a Hero or not . . .
WARNING: Contains Dangerous Space Travel and Very Illegal Magic
Planet Earth, in case you do not know it, is a small, green little world, out on the end of a remote and rarely visited Milky Way.
All Magic was supposed to have disappeared from this particular planet many centuries earlier.
But in an ordinary, slightly damp part of the planet there are five human children with extraordinary Magical Gifts that the universe has never seen before. Only two of them don't know it yet.
What will Mabel and Izzabird's Gifts be? And how will they navigate Bounty Hunters, a witch and three perilous tasks to reach the end of their story? After all, there's nothing like an adventure to find out whether you are a Hero or not . . .
WARNING: Contains Dangerous Space Travel and Very Illegal Magic
Reviews / Votes
Cowell's gift for mesmerising world-building and her creation of characters you can see and hear has been central to these action-packed adventures which come with her trademark humour and rich imaginative powers. All galaxies lead to fun and adventure in this magical trilogy masterpiece! * Lancashire Evening Post *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hachette Children's Group
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 8 years
Product notice
Trade binding
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 40 mm
Weight
668 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4449-7942-8 (9781444979428)
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Additional editions
Cressida Cowell
Which Way To The Future
The out-of-this-world new series from the author of HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON
E-Book
10/2025
Hodder Children's Books
€4.99
Available for download
Person
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.
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.