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Jeremy Strong
Jeremy Strong's first job was putting jam into doughnuts. Every
night he had to fill 300 doughnuts. It was the most boring job
ever!
Things got better when he started playing the electric
violin in a rock band - even though the band was pretty hopeless.
But it wasn't until he trained to be a teacher that he started to
tell and write stories for children.
Jeremy says that his sense of humour got stuck when he
was ten years old. He wasn't allowed to read comics when he was a
child, but discovered The Beano when he was 16 and has never looked
back. He loves jokes, as long as they are not unkind to other
people.
Jeremy gets his ideas from overhearing conversations,
from remembering things from his childhood, and from funny things
he saw when he was a teacher. He loves writing funny stories and
making people laugh.
Viking at School
Sigurd the Viking is back in Flotby but his old-fashioned manners do not win universal approval. Will sending him back to school teach him the manners he seems to be lacking? (9+)
Published in Puffin Books
Dinosaur Pox
Jodie is grumpy enough already. Everything seems to be unfair. Then, one night, she goes to bed perfectly normal... and wakes up as a dinosaur. Jodie is whisked to hospital for tests, but helped by her brother Mark she escapes only to find the police are after her! A gripping adventure. (9+)
Published in Puffin Books
Fatbag
The new school vacuum cleaner looks ordinary enough at first sight, but it's programmed with a deadly mission. Can it suck up all the humans and take over the planet? As Fatbag grows, its evil seems unstoppable. Luckily, a giant sneeze proves just a little too much for the dangerous predator. (9+)
Published in Puffin Books
Trouble with Animals
Three stories about animals and the daft things they do. In Fox on the Roof Robert discovers that it's not ghosts but foxes that are moaning on the school roof. Can he protect them when everyone wants them exorcised? Martin has to keep his puppy safe in Dogs are Different, while Tom searches for the best possible pet in the title story, Trouble With Animals. (9+)
This collection published in Puffin Books
The Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Dog
Streaker is no ordinary dog. At one hundred miles-an-hour she could easily be mistaken for a plane or a rocket. Trevor has got just to the end of the holidays to train her or he'll lose his bet. Hilarious drama. (9+)
Published in Puffin Books
My Granny's Great Escape
Nicholas's Granny is in love! Worse still, she's fallen for a Hell's Angel. Everyone thinks its great except for Nicholas's dad who is determined to bring the romance to a quick conclusion. Luckily, Granny has several tricks up her sleeve. (9+)
Published in Puffin Books
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