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Yippee! Dave Pigeon gets a wonderful review from children’s bookshop The Alligator’s Mouth.

Come along to The Alligator’s Mouth on Saturday 2nd July from 3pm and join me for Dave Pigeon story time and craft fun and build your very own bird feeder.

Have a read of this lovely review of Dave Pigeon here from Lynne Taylor for Books For Keeps.

Have a read of this spectacular review of Dave Pigeon from children’s librarian Alexis Filby.

Today, Sheena and I took Dave Pigeon to meet pupils from primary schools in the London Borough of Greenwich at the Greenwich Book Festival.

One hundred and eighty pupils from seven different primary schools came together to create their own pigeon characters and two incredible action-packed stories.

We were so impressed with the talent and creativity of these budding young authors and illustrators and how well they all worked together to decide what would happen next in their epic pigeon tales.

We heard a story, which would be very much approved by Dave Pigeon himself, where Dave and Skipper escaped the clutches of swamp creatures in a sewer underneath a swimming pool.

And in a Dave Pigeon spin-off we had two new characters: a princess pigeon called Sophia and a pigeon called Peanut who had to battle their way out of a cage using their pocket lava guns.

Sheena and I had the most wonderful time in the glorious grounds of the University of Greenwich and were treated like author and illustrator royalty, complete with a lovely parting gift of the most delicious ‘Thank You’ biscuits known to man.

A huge pigeontastic thank you and well done to Greenwich Book Festival 2016 for such a wonderful day.

Dave Pigeon has just received a wonderful review from Playing By The Book which you can have a read of here. There is also the most scrumptious looking recipe for jammy biscuits which I can’t wait to make myself. Now, if only I could find the ground almonds…

It’s Monday and it’s a wonderful review from Minerva Reads for Dave Pigeon as he gets top billing this week on a pigeontastic bird book post.

I’m also beyond excited to share with you that the brilliant folk over at This Book is Funny, a campaign to get funny books into the hands of children, have chosen Dave Pigeon to be one of their poster books for 2016. I’m over-the-moon delighted that Dave Pigeon gets the This Book is Funny sticker of honour.

Have a look at the line up of hilarious books here and I think you’ll agree that Dave Pigeon is in the most excellent company.

And as if that wasn’t enough, I’m so chuffed to share with you all that Dave Pigeon has been longlisted for the North Somerset Teacher’s Book Award 2016 in the Read Aloud category. I’ve been blown away by the support for Dave Pigeon and this is just the most wonderful news to celebrate the book being out in the world for the past month.

It’s a celebratory Monday! Jammy biscuits and fizzy pop all round! However you are spending your Monday, I hope it’s a pigeontastic one.

Dave and Skipper have been on the hunt for jammy biscuits for the last month and managed to find their way to Reviewer Land.
Have a read of these wonderful reviews of Dave Pigeon from An Awfully Big Adventure, A Bookish Life, Read It Daddy, The Bookbag, Serendipity Reviews and Reading Zone.

And here is Zoe James-Williams‘ lovely 5* review of Dave Pigeon in the South Wales Evening Post:

Yesterday, the brilliant Pickled Pepper Books hosted our Dave Pigeon launch party. There was bunting. There was cake. There were crafts. And there were enough jammy biscuits to feed a small nation.

The party celebrated the launch of my debut book Dave Pigeon: How to Deal with Bad Cats and Keep (most of) Your Feathers. Illustrated by the amazingly talented Sheena Dempsey and published by animal-loving publisher Faber&Faber, the book tells the story of two plucky pigeons who are writing their autobiography of revenge. When asked, I often describe the book as the Hunger Games for pigeons and cats. Only not the Hunger Games at all. It’s more about two hungry pigeons and an even hungrier cat and they are all a bit rubbish at games.

Here is a photo montage of our wonderful afternoon at Pickled Pepper Books, dedicated to absolutely everyone who came along to the launch and to those who weren’t there but sent us their wonderful messages of support. It’s means the world to me to see so many people back our Dave on his journey to the bookshelves.

With love and feathers

xxx

Husband and cub dressed for the occasion

Pickled Pepper Books also dressed up for the Dave Pigeon Launch

Fabulous feather glitter tattoos, courtesy of my lovely little sister

Our budding artists decorating their bird gliders

When your sister-in-law turns up with the most incredible surprise: AN ACTUAL DAVE PIGEON CAKE (no pigeons were harmed in the making of this cake)

Speechy things with our birdrilliant editor Alice

Story time

Signing, signing, signing