Today is the official launch of this year’s Summer Reading Challenge. The theme is ‘Animal Agents’ and Dave Pigeon is one of The Reading Agency’s selected reads this year! Get involved with your local library, read six books, follow the clues and join in with hundreds of events across the nation over the summer break. Team Dave Pigeon will be …
Dave Pigeon (Nuggets!) is a Best New Children’s Books 2017
I’m beyond thrilled to see Dave Pigeon (Nuggets!) in today’s ‘Best New Children’s Books’ supplement in The Guardian. The supplement is packed full of brilliant new children’s books to celebrate Independent Bookshop Week so do grab a copy if you get a chance and definitely head down to your nearest independent bookshop and show them some love.
Dave Pigeon visits Springwell Junior School
Team Dave Pigeon visited Springwell Junior School in Heston, where we met with one hundred and twenty Year Three pupils. We received a lovely, warm welcome and not just because it was the hottest day of the year, but because the children had been reading Dave Pigeon in their classrooms and were raring to go with creating their own Dave …
Dave Pigeon at Leicester Libraries Our Best Book Award
We were up in Leicester for the Leicester Libraries Our Best Book Award. Dave Pigeon was on a shortlist of fantastic books and we couldn’t wait to celebrate all things books and libraries with the other shortlisted authors and illustrators. On the day of the event we were taken to the grounds of the Leicester Tigers for a huge event. …
Happy International Pigeon Appreciation Day
It’s Pigeon Appreciation Day and Dave Pigeon and Skipper are back to explain what it’s all about. Here at Dave Pigeon HQ, we wish you all a feathertastic day celebrating the wonders that are pigeons.
Dave Pigeon wins the Surrey Libraries’ Children’s Book Award 2017!
I’m thrilled to the moon and back to let you all know that Dave Pigeon has won this year’s Surrey Libraries’ Children’s Book Award. I can’t tell you how special this award is to me. Not only is the short list selected by librarians, but the winning book is voted for entirely by children. Libraries played such an important role in nurturing my …
Building Bird Feeders at Pickled Pepper Books
This morning I was at Pickled Pepper Books reading from Dave Pigeon (Nuggets!). It was so lovely to meet lots of young readers and introduce them to the new characters from the book. We then got to work making bird feeders for all the pigeons of Crouch End and the bird feeder designs I saw today were excellent. Here are a …
Dave Pigeon (Nuggets!) at Pickled Pepper Books
Dave Pigeon (Nuggets!) has landed at Pickled Pepper Books and taken over one of their beautiful windows. To coincide with my crafts event on Saturday 20th May at the bookshop, the lovely Urmi allowed me free rein of the window and of course I went all Dave Pigeon (Nuggets!) with it. First up was the lettering… …Then in went Skipper’s …
Roosting with the Dagenham pigeon fanciers
I’m finishing up writing the third Dave Pigeon book, ‘Dave Pigeon (Racer!)‘ and Sheena has just finished the cover, (which I have seen, by the way, and it is MAGNIFICENT and we cannot wait to reveal that to you all in the next few months). One of my favourite bits of the writing process is the research. Now I know what …
Dave Pigeon visits Langshott Primary, Sandcross School and Reigate Chatterbooks
Yesterday, Team Dave Pigeon, along with Team Surrey Libraries, headed to the rolling hills of Surrey to visit pupils at Langshott Primary School. We started the morning meeting Year 3, who helped us creat new pigeons and a brand new story for Dave and Skipper. Sheena illustrated live as the pupils wrote the story together as a team. There were buckets of butter, …