I’m so thrilled to be one of the featured authors on ReadingZone this month. There is heaps of fun stuff to catch up on on the ReadingZone website including mine and Becka Moor’s Q&A, more about the Reggie Rabbit books: Reggie Rabbit: The Ghost of Seagull Rock and Reggie Rabbit: The Great Carrot Heist, the news feature and a video …
Reggie Rabbit: The Ghost of Seagull Rock out today!
It’s October and Halloween is around the corner so Reggie is BACK with his second book in the Reggie Rabbit series because there is a spooky mystery in the coastal village of Seagull Rock to solve. In Reggie Rabbit: The Ghost of Seagull Rock, young detective Reggie Rabbit isn’t sure about his partner Pipsquark’s friend, Kai. The seagull seems too …
Reggie Rabbit and the Great Carrot Heist out now!
Here is the 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’, published by Oxford University Press – THIS ONE IS OUT TODAY! I’ve had the most fun writing this detective series. In this first book, you will meet Reggie Rabbit …
Signing off for 2023
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
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!
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, …
Ignition Children’s Literature Festival: Day 2
We had Grizzly Bear roars and Lioness hugs aplenty today at my Dunedin City Library ‘Meet the Author’ event. We designed a jazzy pair of togs together that would make sure our Grizzly Bear was the trendiest in the woods. The shorts now take pride of place on my office wall. Thank you so much to everyone who came along …
Lioness at the Reading is Magic Festival
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
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 …
Kaikorai Primary School ‘Paws For Reading’ Book Week
After having to cancel my book week events at Kaikorai Primary School due to COVID, I was finally able to visit today to make up for lost time. It was wonderful to be back at the school where my own mancub had been a pupil and to see their brand new hall. I started my day with the Juniors and …