2023 is the Year of Dave Pigeon

Swapna HaddowRoosting With Dave

Welcome back, Readers! 2023 is going to be an exciting one because this year is all about the return of best pals Dave Pigeon and Skipper. In February, Dave and Skipper debut in Spain, Latin America and the USA with Spanish and Catalan editions, published by Flamboyant. February also marks the start of World Book Day celebrations and this year …

See you in 2022!

Swapna HaddowRoosting With Dave

Next year Dave and Skipper return from their holidays with TWO brand new adventures. Keep your eyes peeled for their World Book Day return to the shelves with Dave Pigeon (Bookshop Mayhem!) and then their fifth book in the series, which lands in July, Dave Pigeon (Kittens!). See you pigeontastic readers in 2023!

All About Diwali with Scholastic Schools Live

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Thank you so much to everyone who joined in the All About Diwali event with Scholastic Schools Live. Please do get in touch and share your Diwali makes and bakes with me. I’d love to see how you celebrated. Happy Diwali!

Ignition Children’s Literature Festival: Day 1

Swapna HaddowHalfway Round the World with the Haddows

Thank you to everyone who came along to join Barbara Else, Kitty Brown and I for our ‘Pathways to Publication’ panel today. It was a hugely enlightening conversation about our publication journeys which were very different but started in the same vein of trying to fill a gap in the market. Kitty’s journey began with creating Te Reo Māori board …

Lioness at the Reading is Magic Festival

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Thank you so much to everyone who watched the My Mum is a Lioness event at the Reading is Magic Festival 2022. I hope you all had huge fun listening to the story and drawing your very own lioness with Dapo. Do send us any pictures of your creations and I’ll absolutely add them to my roarsome gallery.

Bad Panda: Most Likely to ‘Make us Giggle’

Swapna HaddowThe Bad Panda Club

To celebrate National Reading Group Day 2022, Team Chatterbooks have chosen the books that make it into this year’s yearbook and I’m chuffed to bits to see Bad Panda was chosen as the book most likely to ‘make us giggle’. Have a look at all the yearbook celebrations here. Thank you, Chatterbooks! And Bad Panda has been selected as part …

SuperGrans Storytime

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It’s been an awesome three days of storytime with Team SuperGrans and fellow author Emma Wood at kindergartens across Dunedin. We visited six kindergartens in total where Emma and I shared our picturebooks with the children. The brilliant team of grans then took over in the storytime corner and Emma and I created lots of new looks for a Grizzly …

International Literacy Day 2022

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The UNESCO International Literacy Day highlights the importance of literacy as a human right so it was wonderful to spend today with The Rotary Club of Dunedin talking about the books I read as a child and the journey I have taken since as a writer.

Dave and Skipper are back for World Book Day 2023

Swapna HaddowRoosting With Dave

It’s been a few years since Dave Pigeon and best pal Skipper went off on a holiday and they are FINALLY back with their very own World Book Day book! Out in 2023, this is the story of Dave versus Bookseller and it promises to be as epic and as feathery as all the other books in the Dave Pigeon …