That’s right! How to Save your Granny from a Runaway Train won the Non-Fiction 7-11 year old category of the 2026 English 4-11 Picture Book Awards! I’m so thrilled for all of Team Granny who worked so hard on this book. The shortlist for our category was incredible so it’s extra special to have been chosen by the judges from …
Literature Across Borders
Today, I was up bright and early to join ‘Literature Across Borders’ with Bath Spa University and Ashoka University. Alexia and Megha hosted a panel with award-winning author Veera Hiranandani, super star screenwriter Nayanika Mahtani and little old me to talk about our experiences of writing books set during the Partition. We talked about our writing journeys, experiences within publishing …
It’s a double publication day!
It’s double book birthday day with not one but two books out! First up, we have the sequel to How to Save your Granny from a Runaway Train: How to Make Diamonds from your Pencils. We are back in the world of science, this time looking at brilliant and bonkers scenarios that can be solved by the world of Chemistry. …
British Science Week with Mr Dilly
It’s British Science week and to celebrate, I joined Mr Dilly for a British Science Week bonanza with Ben Hoare and Isabel Thomas. I spoke with My Dilly about How to Make Diamonds from your Pencils and whether it is actually possible to make diamonds from your pencils. We also spoke about everything from quicksand to quarks and even made …
Happy World Book Day!
It’s World Book Day and I kicked off my World Book Day celebrations with Cliftonville Primary School. We talked about The Terrible Trio and created heaps of new stories for Margarine the penguin, including a trip to Candyland and competing in the Ocean Olympics. They also had some great questions and we discussed everything from creating book covers to why …
It’s a Top Ten takeover!
The Terrible Trio have taken over the January Aotearoa Junior Fiction and Young Adult Bestseller List! I’m so chuffed to see Zeb, Marge and Barry in at number TWO, with The Day the Mac ‘n’ Cheese Ran Out, and number FOUR, with The (not so) Superheroes. Thank you so much to all the brilliant booksellers and buyers who have embraced …
And then there were two!
The second book in The Terrible Trio series is landing in bookshops and libraries around the world over the next couple of weeks, starting with the UK! Zeb the zebra, Barry the lemur and Margarine the penguin have the WORST superpowers in the world, and Zeb is sure life can’t get any worse. But when he turns up for his …
Happy New Reggie!
Happy New Year, Readers! Me and illustrator Becka Moor started 2026 with the release of a brand new Reggie Rabbit book. This one is the fourth in the series and after successfully exposing another Masque plot, word is getting out about crime-solving Reggie Rabbit and his parakeet partner. And this is exactly why a small shy mouse called Mo reaches …
Thank you for all the book love in 2025!
It’s been an incredible year here at Swapna Haddow HQ – I had a whopper ELEVEN books published this year, with everything from fiction to non-fiction to picturebooks to my first in a brand new graphic novel series. Thank you so much for all the love and support of my books this year. I am so grateful. I’ve been working …
Starred review for The Terrible Trio!
I’m so thrilled that The Terrible Trio: The (not so) Superheroes received a starred review in the American Library Association’s Booklist. You can have a read of the review here too. It’s been such an awesome year for Zeb, Marge and Barry and I can’t wait for 2026 when they are back with not one but TWO more books! Watch …