Publication date changes

Swapna HaddowBallet Class in Session, Pawsome News, Scrapbook

Dear readers, 2020 promised to be the launch of many lovely new books, including my debut picture book with Dapo Adeola and a brand new ballet series with Binny Talib, under my pseudonym Swapna Reddy. As you can imagine, the COVID-19 pandemic has effected the publishing industry and many publication dates have been delayed. Sadly, this includes a few of …

Meet Dapo Adeola

Swapna HaddowPawsome News

This week should have marked the launch of my debut picturebook ‘My Dad is a Grizzly Bear‘, illustrated by Dapo Adeola. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the book will now be published in May 2021 instead. Don’t worry, you can still preorder the book but in the meantime I am posting my interview with Dapo so you can get to …

My Dad is a Grizzly Bear in The Bookseller

Swapna HaddowPawsome News

Thank you so much to Fiona Noble for including My Dad is a Grizzly Bear in her round up of May book releases. I’m so thrilled to see My Dad is a Grizzly Bear finally making it out into the wild.

My Dad is a Grizzly Bear

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Happy New Year, readers! I’m so pleased to share the cover of my debut picturebook, illustrated by the very talented Dapo Adeola, coming in May with Macmillan Children’s Books. The story follows a boy with a wild imagination and his lively family. In this family, it’s just possible that Dad is a grizzly bear . . . He has fuzzy …

I have NEW book news!

Swapna HaddowPawsome News

I have pawsome news! Thanks to the team at Macmillan Children’s Books, I will be joining forces with the formidable, illustrator extraordinaire Dapo Adeola to create my first picture books. This is an absolute dream project and I can’t wait to share more with you soon but for the moment you’ll have to bear with me as everything is a …