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• Illustrator of the Real Pigeons series

Homey code! 🐦🔎 • #realpigeons #realpigeons

Homey code! 🐦🔎
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The Little Bookroom now have signed copies of Real

The Little Bookroom now have signed copies of Real Pigeons Duck Trouble!
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A few highlights from our Real Pigeons Live Myster

A few highlights from our Real Pigeons Live Mystery at @thecapitolrmit last weekend. Thanks again to everyone who came and helped us solve the mystery! 🐦

Photos by @photobat_alan
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PIG WIGS. 🐦 • #realpigeons #realpigeonsfightc

PIG WIGS. 🐦
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Here comes trouble! Real Pigeons Duck Trouble is o

Here comes trouble! Real Pigeons Duck Trouble is out today in Australia & NZ! Coo Coo! 🐦
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🔍Made by us! @mrandrewmcdonald @benwoodillustrator
📚Published by @hardiegrantkids
🖍Designed by @roman_italic
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By some good book fortune I was able to read an ad

By some good book fortune I was able to read an advance reading copy of Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell by @tobias_madden. I read Anything But Fine earlier this year and really loved it. I loved it so much that I now recommend it to anyone who will listen- and this is how I ended up being loaned an ARC of Noah! 😂 Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell is such great writing. I laughed and squealed and stressed out and I may have even shed a tear or two at times. Loved it! September can’t come soon enough!
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Here’s the creepy bunny I drew for my niece at E

Here’s the creepy bunny I drew for my niece at Easter time. 🐰
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ICYMI. Melbourne! Thanks to our friends at The Whe

ICYMI. Melbourne! Thanks to our friends at The Wheeler Centre, Andrew, Janet McLeod and I will be bringing the Real Pigeons Live Mystery to the Capitol Theatre May 7th at 1.30pm!

Celebrate the release of Real Pigeons Duck Trouble with us and solve a pigeon-filled mystery in this interactive storytelling event.

There will be a best pigeon costume competition too! Because who doesn’t love a home-made pigeon costume?! So feel free to get the feathers out!

To book head to www.wheelercentre.com or follow the link in my Insta bio. See you there, crime-fighters!

The bookseller at this event is @little_bookroom 🥳
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My advance copies of Real Pigeons Duck Trouble hav

My advance copies of Real Pigeons Duck Trouble have arrived! It is pretty and funny and I am so happy with it. It’s always a strange moment getting the real life version of a book. Everything looks new and I can see it with fresh eyes- and be happy with everything I did ha.

@mrandrewmcdonald and I are really upping the stakes in this one. The REAL PIGEONS have been discovered by some SECRET AGENTS. Will they work together? Maybe. Will they be good at it? Probably not. And are there SECRET AGENT inventions? Yes! Of course! In Aus & NZ stores 4th May!
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Designed by the queen @roman_italic
Published by @hardiegrantkids
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My take on the Grand Prix! Made for my nephew’s

My take on the Grand Prix! Made for my nephew’s birthday.
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Hey hey! Look what @mrandrewmcdonald and I have ma

Hey hey! Look what @mrandrewmcdonald and I have made! So excited to share the cover of REAL PIGEONS DUCK TROUBLE! Book 9 swoops into AUS & NZ stores May 4th. Preorders up now in my bio.
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The Real Pigeons are amazing crime-fighters. So when they team up with some HUMAN SECRET AGENTS they think they'll be unbeatable!

But then a strange MUTANT goes on a rampage. POCKETS start mysteriously vanishing from pants and jackets. And someone raises a terrifying army of ZOMPIGEONS.

Worst of all – the agents have a SECRET of their own. And it's going to get our heroes into terrible TROUBLE … the kind they can't easily DUCK!
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👖 Making missing pockets exciting again @mrandrewmcdonald
✏️ Illustrations by me!
📚 Published by @hardiegrantchildrenspublishing
🖥 Designed by @roman_italic
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Thanks for having us, Adelaide Writers’ Week! Sp

Thanks for having us, Adelaide Writers’ Week! Spending time in Adelaide has been a real treat. You just know a city is going to be good when they have a giant pigeon statue! 🐦😜
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Adelaide! The Real Pigeons Live Mystery is coming

Adelaide! The Real Pigeons Live Mystery is coming your way as part of Adelaide Writers’ Week. We’ll be at Kids’ Day this Saturday 5th March. Find us in the Torrens Tent in the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden at 11.50am. Help us solve a SUPER COO mystery! 🐦🔎 Link in bio!
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Thanks ABC Radio Gippsland for having me on this m

Thanks ABC Radio Gippsland for having me on this morning to talk Real Pigeons! Always great to chat to the delightful Mim Cook!
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A warm up drawing of Rock- with squished eyeballs.

A warm up drawing of Rock- with squished eyeballs. 👀
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Wishing you all a safe and restful end of the year

Wishing you all a safe and restful end of the year, just like my dog Wombat here. See you on the flip side! 👋
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Have been really reluctant to finish the pages in

Have been really reluctant to finish the pages in this sketchbook. But it happened! Lasted for over a year and several lockdowns.
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Cover by genius @porliniers
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I love these colours!🐦🌈 • #realpigeons #r

I love these colours!🐦🌈
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Big beaky smiles!😁🐦 • #realpigeons #realpi

Big beaky smiles!😁🐦
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Early Rock designs for Real Pigeons Fight Crime, 2

Early Rock designs for Real Pigeons Fight Crime, 2017. How funny is that note to myself! 😂
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