Pamela Butchart is an award winning, best-selling children’s author. She lives in Dundee with her son, her fiancé and their very loud cat, Bear.
As a child, Pamela was lucky enough to grow up in a house full of pets and go to a primary school where lots of weird and spooky things happened (well, in her imagination at least). As a student, Pamela’s student jobs included: fishwife, teaching basketball in America, phlebotomist and Artist Liaison for a (really bad) Abba tribute band. Now when she’s not writing, teaching or mummy-ing she’s out and about meeting readers.
Pamela has always loved children’s books, but never thought she could write her own until she was given a guide called ‘How to Write for Children’ for her birthday.
If she wasn’t a writer and philosophy teacher, she’d probably open a luxury hotel for stray cats.
Pamela’s top-selling stories include The Spy Who Loved School Dinners, which won the Blue Peter Best Story Award, My Head Teacher is a Vampire Rat, which won the Children’s Book Award and A Monster Ate My Packed Lunch, which won the Lollies – the Laugh Out Loud Awards.
Pamela was asked to continue Enid Blyton’s iconic and much-loved Secret Seven series. Pamela has written two new Secret Seven stories – Secret Seven Mystery of the Skull and Secret Seven Mystery of the Theatre Ghost.
Pamela’s brand new middle grade book DIARY OF A FUTURE BILLIONAIRE is due to be published by Scholastic in February 2025.