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Swapna Haddow trained as a doctor, but after discovering she didn't like blood, decided on a career change and wrote her first book Dave Pigeon: How to Deal With Bad Cats and Keep (most of) Your Feathers, which won the Greenhouse Funny Prize, the North Somerset Teachers’ Book Award, Read Aloud category 2016, and the Fantastic Book Awards 2018 and selected as part of the Tom Fletcher Book Club 2, in association with WHSmith. Dave Pigeon was also shortlisted for the Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Awards 2016. Swapna now lives in New Zealand with her husband, their son and their dog. You can usually find Swapna writing, reading or eating Jaffa Cakes. Sometimes you might find her doing all three at the same time. Dapo Adeola is an illustrator, author and character designer who rocketed into the picture book world with his greatly acclaimed illustrator debut, Look Up!, written by Nathan Bryon and published by Puffin in 2019, which won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize in 2020. Dapo illustrated My Dad is a Grizzly Bear and My Mum Is a Lioness written by award-winning author Swapna Haddow (both published by Macmillan Children’s Books), and collaborated with Malorie Blackman on their picture book We're Going to Find the Monster. Dapo is the author of Hey You!: An Empowering Celebration of Growing Up Black, featuring 18 talented Black British illustrators. He also curated Joyful, Joyful: Stories Celebrating Black Voices, an illustrated anthology bringing together 40 Black artists and writers from all over the world in a celebration of Black joy. Born in Britain and of Nigerian heritage, Dapo's work tends to revolve around creating characters and imagery that challenge gender norms and equality politics in a fun and upbeat manner. An avid believer in the importance of equal representation in the creative arts, Dapo runs illustration and character design based workshops with children and adults to help highlight the possibilities of a career in illustration to inner city people of various ethnicities. Dapo lives in London.This writer/artist duo return with a fiercely funny portrait of a small child’s vision of his mother as a lioness … a wildly imaginative celebration of maternal love.
Daily Mail
Haddow has created a wonderful ode to strong, sporty, powerful mums in this fun picturebook. A boy talks about all the things his mum does for him, protecting him, teaching him and loving him. The perfect bedtime story for young cubs, with lively, expressive illustrations by Adeola.
Irish Independent
Perfectly timed for Mother's Day comes the follow-up to My Dad is a Grizzly Bear, a big-hearted picture book celebrating family life.
The Bookseller Previews
The delightful sequel to Haddow and Adeola’s <i>My Dad is a Grizzly Bear</i> features a powerful, energetic mum who is very much the centre of the family, cheering on her children and loving everyone fearlessly. The little boy telling the story isn’t always thrilled about some of his mum’s lion-like qualities, but Mum is always there when he needs her, and that’s what matters. As ever, Dapo Adeola’s brilliant illustration captures the loving family dynamic perfectly and his depiction of a mixed-race family is wonderful. A brilliant book about families and the awesome power of mums.
Booktrust
Little ones will be roaring with laughter when they get their hands on this fast, furious and fun tale about a boy with a wild imagination … Enjoy a riot of vibrant storytelling, big, bold and beautiful illustration, and the comfort and joy of family love in this caring, sharing book just made for bedtime reading.
Lancashire Evening Post