Swapna Haddow (1982 – ) is a London-born, Dunedin-based author of books for children. Her Dave Pigeon series has won a number of awards, and is currently four books long. Little Rabbit’s Big Surprise (2019) has been translated into Polish and Russian. As well as writing picture books and junior fiction titles, she has contributed to a number of anthologies.

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