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The Dave Pigeon Christmas tree is up so I’m signing off. I’ll be working on some exciting new projects so watch this space.

Have a feathertastic festive season and I’ll see you in January for the launch of Dave Pigeon (Racer!).

Advance copies of Dave Pigeon (Racer!) have been flying around and I’ve finally got my hands on a copy. I’m so proud to finally see the finished book and I can’t wait for you all to see it too, when it lands in bookshops and libraries next month.

In the meantime, enjoy the three Dave Pigeon book siblings hanging out together on top of a bookcase:

Hatman, aka award-winning author Andy Seed, has chosen his November reads and Dave Pigeon has made the list! I’m chuffed to bits to see that one of my writing heroes has picked Dave as one of his recommendations for November. Have a look at his vlog to see more fantastic reads.

Thank you Hatman!

 Children’s Book Week is here! This week is a celebration of reading for pleasure with children, teachers, librarians, educators and parents and I’m so pleased that BookTrust has selected Dave Pigeon (Nuggets!) to be part of their Great Books Guide 2017.

Today, Sheena and I headed up north to Sheffield for the Sheffield Children’s Book Awards 2017. We were chuffed to bits that Dave Pigeon had made the shortlist and caught the dawn train northwards where we bumped into Carnegie-nominated author Patrice Lawrence who was heading up to the very same event.

Sheffield did not let down. Seven hundred book-loving children (and possibly just as many librarians, authors, illustrators and publishing folk), packed The Crucible for an incredible event, celebrating so many brilliant books.

Dave Pigeon was up for the Emerging Reads category and whilst we didn’t win, we couldn’t have been more pleased for Katie Smith and Sarah Jennings who won with ‘The Pumpkin Project’.

The overall winner was the very excellent ‘Nibbles the Book Monster’ by Emma Yarlett, one of our family’s favourite read.

Thank you so much to all the brilliant librarians at Sheffield Libraries for hosting such a fantastic event. We had an incredible time meeting everyone and catching up with some of our favourite authors and illustrators.

Flumping feathers! Dave Pigeon has been nominated for the Lancashire School Library Service Fantastic Book Awards 2018. We are pleased as punch, here at Dave Pigeon HQ! The awards are judged by thousands of children from primary schools across Lancashire, ahead of the award ceremony in May.

Thank you so much Lancashire School Library Service. Wings crossed for Dave Pigeon!

Thank you so much to Ally, from Glenview Library in Hamilton, New Zealand, for reading Dave Pigeon and for this fantastic review:

Good Feathens! It’s the magnificent Dave Pigeon (Racer!) cover. Illustrated by Sheena Dempsey, I’m beyond excited to share the cover of the brand new Dave Pigeon book with you all.

Dave Pigeon (Racer!) is out next year in January. Hurrah!

Wonderful news Dave Pigeon fans! ‘Dave Pigeon: How to Deal with Bad Cats and Keep (most of) Your Feathers’ has been translated into braille and audio for the RNIB Library as part of the Summer Reading Challenge.