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It’s Sunday. It’s finally stopped raining. What better way is there to celebrate the end of half term but delighting in books at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival? Today I was without my trusty partner-in-crime, Sheena Dempsey, so my mission was to recruit young illustrators and designers to help me fill their London gardens with bird feeders for our pigeon friends. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …