Wild Rabbits!

Fierce Bad Rabbits is out in the wild… Thankyou everyone for all your lovely messages and support. I was actually pretty anxious last week, but everything seems to have gone okay – I managed to get through Woman’s Hour without saying anything foolish (I’m about half an hour in) and I’ve had some very thoughtful reviews from Lucy Scholes in The Sunday Telegraph and Emily Bearn in The Spectator, as well as a small but sweet one in The Observer (‘Delight is the secret ingredient in poet and playwright Clare Pollard’s captivating first book’). An extract from the book about how much I love Dr Seuss’ ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ featured in The Telegraph. And @LRBbookshop did a thread on the book, and Burglar Betty in Burglar Bill! At the weekend I had a lovely event at the Arts Over Borders ‘Wilde Weekend’ in Enniskillen, talking picture books and ‘The Selfish Giant’ with Sheena Wilkinson in Wilde’s old school, overlooking the statue he based ‘The Happy Prince’ on.

It’s not completely launched until I’ve had my launch though – it’s going to be at the awesome Review Bookshop in Peckham next Thursday, the 15th of August at 7pm – £5 ticket includes wine and money off the book. Everyone seems to be on holiday so there’s still space. Please come and celebrate with me (and my mum, one of the stars of the book, who will be there too!)