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Have a read of this lovely review of Dave Pigeon over on Luna’s Little Library.

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. And Stoke Newington did not fail to deliver.

After story time, the children got to work designing their bird feeders to give pigeons a safe place to eat their jammy biscuits and croissants without the fear of being pounced upon by naughty cats, hungry for a feathery snack.

And what a brilliant job these budding artists did. Here are some of the bird feeders from today’s workshop.

After, we got to work penning a new adventure for Dave and Skipper. It was full of picnics and cat fights, an electrifying escalator and a mad dash on a scooter to The End where the pigeons found their way to the safety of their bird feeder.

I had such a blast today and thank you so much to everyone who looked after me at Stokey. It was such a brilliant festival and I can’t say thank you enough for the BEST goodie bag ever.

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 illustrators and how well they all worked together to decide what would happen next in their epic pigeon tales.

We heard a story, which would be very much approved by Dave Pigeon himself, where Dave and Skipper escaped the clutches of swamp creatures in a sewer underneath a swimming pool.

And in a Dave Pigeon spin-off we had two new characters: a princess pigeon called Sophia and a pigeon called Peanut who had to battle their way out of a cage using their pocket lava guns.

Sheena and I had the most wonderful time in the glorious grounds of the University of Greenwich and were treated like author and illustrator royalty, complete with a lovely parting gift of the most delicious ‘Thank You’ biscuits known to man.

A huge pigeontastic thank you and well done to Greenwich Book Festival 2016 for such a wonderful day.