Dave and Skipper have taken over the BookTrust blog

Swapna HaddowRoosting With Dave

Someone at the BookTrust offices has only gone and left the windows wide open, leaving the office computers unattended, only to be hijacked by Dave and Skipper. Have a read of their guest post over on the BookTrust Blog. I love Sheena Dempsey’s illustrations including this lovely one of the two of us.

Summer Reading Challenge Launch Day

Swapna HaddowRoosting With Dave

Today is the official launch of this year’s Summer Reading Challenge. The theme is ‘Animal Agents’ and Dave Pigeon is one of The Reading Agency’s selected reads this year! Get involved with your local library, read six books, follow the clues and join in with hundreds of events across the nation over the summer break. Team Dave Pigeon will be …

Dave Pigeon (Nuggets!) is a Best New Children’s Books 2017

Swapna HaddowRoosting With Dave

I’m beyond thrilled to see Dave Pigeon (Nuggets!) in today’s ‘Best New Children’s Books’ supplement in The Guardian. The supplement is packed full of brilliant new children’s books to celebrate Independent Bookshop Week so do grab a copy if you get a chance and definitely head down to your nearest independent bookshop and show them some love.  

Dave Pigeon visits Springwell Junior School

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Team Dave Pigeon visited Springwell Junior School in Heston, where we met with one hundred and twenty Year Three pupils.  We received a lovely, warm welcome and not just because it was the hottest day of the year, but because the children had been reading Dave Pigeon in their classrooms and were raring to go with creating their own Dave …

Dave Pigeon at Leicester Libraries Our Best Book Award

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We were up in Leicester for the Leicester Libraries Our Best Book Award. Dave Pigeon was on a shortlist of fantastic books and we couldn’t wait to celebrate all things books and libraries with the other shortlisted authors and illustrators. On the day of the event we were taken to the grounds of the Leicester Tigers for a huge event. …

Dave Pigeon wins the Surrey Libraries’ Children’s Book Award 2017!

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I’m thrilled to the moon and back to let you all know that Dave Pigeon has won this year’s Surrey Libraries’ Children’s Book Award. I can’t tell you how special this award is to me. Not only is the short list selected by librarians, but the winning book is voted for entirely by children. Libraries played such an important role in nurturing my …

Building Bird Feeders at Pickled Pepper Books

Swapna HaddowRoosting With Dave

This morning I was at Pickled Pepper Books reading from Dave Pigeon (Nuggets!). It was so lovely to meet lots of young readers and introduce them to the new characters from the book. We then got to work making bird feeders for all the pigeons of Crouch End and the bird feeder designs I saw today were excellent. Here are a …

The Bookmark Project is live

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You might remember a post, earlier on this year, about the 1st Burley-in-Wharfedale Brownies who were raising money for Katiyo Primary School in Zimbabwe by auctioning off one-of-a-kind bookmarks designed by authors, illustrators and book lovers; well, the auction has just gone live! Now is your chance to bid on my one-off, signed, original bookmark ‘Clive’. You’ll be raising money …

Dave Pigeon (Nuggets!) at Pickled Pepper Books

Swapna HaddowRoosting With Dave

Dave Pigeon (Nuggets!) has landed at Pickled Pepper Books and taken over one of their beautiful windows. To coincide with my crafts event on Saturday 20th May at the bookshop, the lovely Urmi allowed me free rein of the window and of course I went all Dave Pigeon (Nuggets!) with it. First up was the lettering… …Then in went Skipper’s …