Reggie Rabbit and the Great Carrot Heist

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I’m chuffed to bits to share the cover of first book in my brand new young fiction series, Reggie Rabbit and the Great Carrot Heist. Illustrated by the Becka Moor and written under my pseudonym, ‘Swapna Reddy’, this series will be published by Oxford University Press with the first book is out in May! I’ve had the most fun writing …

Signing off for 2023

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Phew! That was a BIG year! You’ve all made so many of my dreams come true, starting with a phenomenal World Book Day release for Dave Pigeon. I was chuffed to bits to see so many schools join in with mine and Sheena’s big virtual event. HUGE thank you to everyone who shared their work with us. Dave was back …

Grizzly Pigeons meet Rotherham Loves Reading

Swapna HaddowPawsome News, Roosting With Dave

Today, I joined Team Rotherham Loves Reading for not one but TWO events! First up I met with EYFS and Key Stage 1 for a reading of My Dad is a Grizzly Bear and we all created our very own grizzly bears. Then I met with Key Stage 2 for some Dave Pigeon (Kittens!) fun where we created brand new …

Happy World Book Day Week!

Swapna HaddowPawsome News, Roosting With Dave

It’s World Book Day this week! I’m so proud to see Dave Pigeon (Bookshop Mayhem!) out in the world alongside the other amazing World Book Day books, helping kids discover reading for pleasure. And this year is even more special because children were involved in the book selection for the very first time. Reading for pleasure can be life changing, …

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.

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 …

My Dad is a Grizzly Bear is a winner!

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My Dad is a Grizzly Bear has won the Woke Babies Book Awards Picture Book of the Year! I’m so proud of this book and thrilled to see it get the Woke Babies stamp of approval. Thank you so much to the judges and everyone who voted.

My Mum is a Lioness at Big DoG

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Thank you so much to everyone who tuned in for some My Mum is a Lioness fun. There was stretching… And making… And a reading too! It was the first time I was reading My Mum is a Lioness for a festival and I couldn’t have been more pleased that it was for the Big DoG Children’s Book festival.