The Alligator’s Mouth reviews Dave Pigeon (Nuggets!)

Swapna HaddowRoosting With Dave

Our first review of Dave Pigeon (Nuggets!) is in and I’m overjoyed because it’s a good one. Have a read of Margaret’s review here. Huge thank you to The Alligator’s Mouth bookshop for such a lovely review. Both Sheena and I will be running a crafts session and celebrating Dave Pigeon (Nuggets!) flying on to the shelves on Saturday 28th January. …

Just twenty more sleeps!

Swapna HaddowRoosting With Dave

Happy New Year! Just twenty more sleeps until Dave Pigeon (Nuggets!) hits the shelves and advanced copies of Dave Pigeon (Nuggets!) are flying around to bloggers this month. Whilst we wait for the reviews to come and I chew my nails down to bloodied stumps, I thought I’d let the husband and the son have an exclusive read of the book. …

And then there were two!

Swapna HaddowRoosting With Dave

The advanced copies of Dave Pigeon (Nuggets!) are in and they are looking FANTASTIC! Only forty-two more sleeps until Dave Pigeon (Nuggets!) hits the shelves in 2017! Until then, have a Merry Davemas and a pigeontastic New Year and I’ll be back in 2017 with more exciting Dave Pigeon news. Swapna x

The Dave Pigeon (Nuggets!) Book Trailer has landed

Swapna HaddowRoosting With Dave

Hold on to your feathers! It’s the Dave Pigeon (Nuggets!) book trailer. Illustrated by Sheena Dempsey and published by Faber & Faber, the second book in the Dave Pigeon series will be out February 2017; that’s only fifty-six sleeps away! In the meantime enjoy the trailer by Ross Hendrick.

St Augustine’s CE Primary School

Swapna HaddowRoosting With Dave

Last week we were invited to meet the pupils of St. Augustine’s CE Primary School by the wonderful staff and the very lovely folk of the Alligator’s Mouth bookshop. Without Sheena, it was the job of the pupils to help me create new characters and brand new stories and of course, with Christmas around the corner, we had to have a character …

North Somerset Teachers’ Book Award: WINNER!

Swapna HaddowRoosting With Dave

DAVE PIGEON WON THE NORTH SOMERSET TEACHERS’ BOOK AWARD: READ ALOUD CATEGORY. WE WON! And yes, I am so happy I am shouting about it! Yesterday afternoon, we were treated to a wonderful awards ceremony, packed full of children’s books and delicious cakes. Shortlisted authors and illustrators were invited to Bournville Primary School in Weston-super-Mare to celebrate an amazing shortlist of …

Surrey Libraries’ Children’s Book Award

Swapna HaddowRoosting With Dave

I’m over the moon and beyond excited to see that Dave Pigeon has been shortlisted for the Surrey Libraries’ Children’s Book Award 2017. Dave Pigeon sits alongside some of my favourite books on this list.