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Serena Hassan Author

Serena Hassan's inspiration for writing children's stories began on her lunch break in Covent Garden in 2012, when she saw a pigeon whose legs were tangled in rubbish. That pigeon was the inspiration for her first book, THE TAP-DANCING PIGEON OF COVENT GARDEN. A few years later she found a place to call home in Surrey, where she lives with her husband and two daughters. Her favourite hobby is creating wizard wands from fallen forest twigs by painting them with glitter and sparkles. Serena believes life is magical and if that means dressing up as a fairy superhero and heading to the supermarket, then really ... why not?