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Pamela Butchart
Pamela Butchart is a Scottish children's author and high school philosophy teacher. Butchart is best known for her books, The Spy Who Loved School Dinners and My Head Teacher is a Vampire Rat, both of which won book awards. Education and careerButchart has an MA in philosophy from the University of Dundee and a PGDE from the University of Edinburgh. After graduating, Butchart became a philosophy teacher at Harris Academy in Dundee.[1][2] She began writing children's books after her fiancé gave her a book on how to write for children.[1] Butchart has said that Judith Kerr is one of her influences.[3] Butchart won the 2015 Blue Peter Book Award for Best story for her book, The Spy Who Loved School Dinners which was illustrated by Thomas Flintham.[4] In 2016, Butchart's book, My Teacher is a Vampire Rat won the Red House Children's Book Award in the Young Readers Category and for overall winner.[5] In 2017, it was announced that Butchart would write the sixteenth and seventeenth Secret Seven novels, the first additions to the series since 1963. The original series was written by Enid Blyton.[6] The first book, called Mystery of the Skull, was published in July 2018 and the second, Mystery of the Theatre Ghost, was published in February 2019.[7] Personal lifeButchart lives in Broughty Ferry, Dundee with her husband, Andy Cunningham, whom she married in July 2014.[8] BibliographyPugly Series
Baby Aliens Series
Wigglesbottom Primary Series
Yikes Series
Stand-alone books
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