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Happy Birthday, Dog!

Annabel Pitcher, Author

Fabi Santiago, Illustrator

Imprint: Hodder Children's Books

Publication date: April 14, 2022

Category: Picture storybooks

ISBN: 9781444950526

Imprint: Hodder Children's Books

Publication date: August 4, 2022

Category: Picture storybooks

ISBN: 9781444950533

Cat and Dog are best friends (most of the time) although they are VERY different. Dog is quiet and Cat is loud. Cat is bouncy, while Dog is calm. Dog is shy, and Cat loves to be the centre of attention.

So when the day of Dog’s birthday arrives, Cat simply cannot believe it can’t be her birthday too!

A warm and witty tale of best friends, birthdays, rivalry and learning to share.

Annabel Pitcher

Annabel graduated from Oxford University with a degree in English Literature and an ambition to be a children’s author. She had a variety of jobs before deciding to travel the world and focus on writing. Annabel now lives in Yorkshire with her husband and two young sons.

Her first book, MY SISTER LIVES ON THE MANTELPIECE, won the Branford Boase and a Betty Trask Award in 2012 and KETCHUP CLOUDS won the 2014 Waterstones Children’s Prize. Annabel’s work has been shortlisted for numerous prestigious awards including the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Galaxy British Book Award and the Red House Children’s Book Award and longlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and the 2012 CILIP Carnegie Medal.

Visit Annabel’s website at www.annabelpitcher.com and follow her on Twitter @APitcherAuthor.

Fabi Santiago

Fabi Santiago is the author of Tiger in a Tutu, shortlisted for the Waterstones Picture Books Prize. Fabi was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and has been making pictures ever since she could hold her first crayon. After studying art and design, Fabi went travelling and came across the MA in Children’s Book Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art, from where she graduated in 2014. Fabi’s illustrations are full of movement and bold limited colours, and her media of choice is screen-printing. She likes the outdoors, cycling, dance and theatre, all of which are inspiration for her stories. Fabi lives in London with her ginger fellow and her cat, Porridge.