Top Tips on the Wordery Blog
With World Book Day on the horizon, here are some of my top tips and school secrets I shared with online bookshop Wordery for all those budding young authors out there.
Happy International Book Giving Day!
This year to celebrate International Book Giving Day we sent books up to Burnley Road Academy in Yorkshire, who sadly lost their wonderful library stock to the Christmas floods last year. Of all the Valentines Day’s surprises I’ve had over the years this lovely email from Headteacher Claire Cope is right up there with leaving me that happy, warm feeling …
All things Goosebumps on Girls Heart Books
You can read my first post for the Girls Heart Books blog. I’m celebrating one of the best horror series in children’s fiction: GOOSEBUMPS!
Dave Pigeon COVER REVEAL!
I’m absolutely thrilled to reveal the cover of ‘Dave Pigeon: How to Deal with Bad Cats and Keep (most of) Your Feathers‘, illustrated by the brilliant Sheena Dempsey. Dave Pigeon hits the shelves in the UK on 7th April 2016! Find out more here.
Dave Pigeon is flying off to Mountains to Sea Festival
Sheena and I are chuffed to bits to be taking Dave Pigeon to the Mountains To Sea Book Festival in Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin this March. It’s an incredible line up of brilliant writers and illustrators this year and I can’t wait! We will be running an afternoon ‘Dave Pigeon: Art and Story Fun‘ session on Sunday 13th March and would love …
Feb-bird-ary News
Just a quick note to tell you all that Sheena Dempsey’s fabulous artwork for Dave Pigeon is now with the incredible design team at Faber and from what I’ve seen so far, it is looking FANTASTIC! And to top it off, it has been incredibly exciting to see Dave in The Bookseller’s Children’s Preview for April. Suddenly, this is all …
Happy January!
This is it! 2016! We have finally made it to the Year of Dave Pigeon. I have exciting news to kick of January: I have joined the Girls Heart Books family and will be blogging over there with the rest of the fabulous team. My first post will be up in February so watch this space (and that space)…
Happy Holidays from The Haddows
See you all in the New Year for what promises to be an exciting year full of adventure, laughs and many, many pigeons Merry Christmas from Swapna, James, Phoenix and Gary the Hamster
Meet Sheena Dempsey
I think it’s time you met the brilliant illustrator behind Dave Pigeon. I met Sheena on a rainy day at Faber HQ. As I sat on the couch in the reception area, eyeballing absolutely everyone who was buzzed through the door, in walked an Irish leggy beaut, slightly drenched, with a look in her eye that said ‘we-clearly-watch-the-same-You-Tube-videos-of-brutish-cats’. I can’t …