Pamela Butchart (author)

Pamela Butchart is a teacher and the writer of many award-winning books, including The Spy Who Loved School Dinners and My Head Teacher is a Vampire Rat. She is also author of of the bestselling picture books Never Tickle a Tiger, Yikes, Stinkysaurus! and the hugely successful Baby Aliens series. She lives in Dundee with her son and two cats.

Pamela gets her inspiration from her own childhood which was filled with broken metal detectors, mud pies, haunted primary schools, dinosaurs and exploding balloons filled with rice.
Pamela loves cats, Kinder eggs, funny babies, small dogs, tulips, cheese, dinosaurs and her pug pyjamas bottoms.
When Pamela grows up she’d like to open a luxury hotel for stray cats. She thinks she’d call it ‘Meowington Palace.’

Pamela was a World Book Day author for 2018, the winner of The Children’s Book Award 2016 and the Blue Peter Best Book Award 2015. She was shortlisted for The Laugh Out Loud Book Awards 2018 for There’s a Werewolf in My Tent. Her first book came out in 2014 and since then she has had more than twenty books published. Pamela is also the author of two brand new stories for Enid Blyton’s Secret Seven series, The Mystery of the Skull and The Mystery of the Theatre Ghost.

Pamela is also the author of several picture books: Never Tickle the Tiger is illustrated by Marc Boutavant was shortlisted for The Scottish Children’s Book Awards 2016. Marc Boutavant since also illustrated Butchart’s Never Dance with a Dinosaur.