Jeremy Strong - Children's Author

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Jeremy Strong is a fantastic children's author. His books are side splittingly funny and once you have read one your children will be asking you to get more.

His work has a wide ranging appeal to the 7+ market (5-7s who are keen readers will love them too) especially to boys and tomboys. Jeremy was born in Eltham, South East London in November 1949. He has had a varied career path before becoming an author including jobs as a: Head Teacher, Caretaker, Strawberry Picker, Jam Doughnut Stuffer! His first published book was Smith's Tail in 1978 and he now lives in Kent.

Jeremy’s work is characterised by humour and direct child appeal. The books are packed with tongue in cheek gags and characters and situations that your children will love. He says of himself "My sense of humour got stuck at age ten."  He thinks his writing has been influenced most of all by Spike Milligan, but also by falling on his head when he was three years old.

When he was about eighteen he started writing very serious stories for adults, but none of them were published. By the time he was twenty-one he was writing stories for children after realizing that he loved writing funny stories and making people laugh.

AWARDS

The Children's Book Award 1997 for The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog
The Sheffield Children’s Book Award 1998 (Shorter Novel category) for Pirate Pandemonium
The Sheffield Children’s Book Award 2000 (Shorter Novel category) for Dinosaur Pox

Jeremy Strong's recent Campaign for Fun schools competition to find the Funniest School in the UK and Ireland has now closed. You can still find the activities and the competition winners on his website - click here.

Author photo: Justine Stoddart

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Featured Books, with extracts by Jeremy Strong

The Ghost in the Bath
Jeremy Strong
Interest Age 8 - 12 Reading Age 8+. Ghosts and history whizz through this hilarious story. Luke hates most things that happen at school – and he especially hates history. When his teacher sets the class a project to do...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 26/03/2012
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Living With Vampires
Jeremy Strong
Interest Age 9+ Reading Age 8+. There’s plenty of gory humour as Vlad frets about his school parents' evening. Having vampire parents makes Vlad’s evening a night to worry about. While Mrs Fottle, his teacher, thinks Vlad’s pictures of his...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 12/03/2012
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The Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Dog Goes for Gold!
Jeremy Strong
The world’s fastest and best-selling dog Streaker is back going for gold in the town’s Animal Games. Surely he’s a shoe-in? But there’s one problem. Although Streaker is fast, he is also, according to Mum, less obedient than a carrot....
Featured in: 7+ readers | eBooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
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Cartoon Kid
Jeremy Strong
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. Loads of laughs in this new series from best-selling author Jeremy Strong.  Casper’s new teacher says everyone in the class is a superhero and together thy can fight injustice. Casper uses...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/01/2011
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My Brother's Christmas Bottom - Unwrapped!
Jeremy Strong
Best-selling Jeremy Strong tells another uproariously funny story about the unusual and unpredictable goings on in Nicholas’s unruly family. This time it is nearly Christmas but, with Dad losing his job, it doesn’t look as if the family will be...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/09/2010
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The Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Dog (Puffin Modern Classics)
Jeremy Strong
Chosen as the Puffin Modern Classic 1990 - 1999 Featuring a boy, an extremely fast family pet dog and a bet, this is very definitely laugh-out-loud funny and chock full of action and adventure during what might otherwise have been a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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We Want to be on the Telly: A Pocket Money Puffin
Jeremy Strong
Hilarious fun which will entertain all children who find their parents embarrassing. Heathrow (born in the Arrivals area at the famous airport) tells the story of struggling with parents who are determined to find fame and be on telly. Every...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2010
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Batpants!
Jeremy Strong
Loads of laughter for readers from comic master writer Jeremy Strong.  Batpants is his new creation, a madcap story of high jinks as Finn, Zac and Tilly learn to live with a pet orang-utan. Batpants is just part of the...
Featured in: 7+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2010
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Living with Vampires
Jeremy Strong
Interest Age 9+ Reading Age 8+. Family problems of an unusual kind make life complicated for Kevin. With vampires for parents, he does his best to control them but things can’t help getting out of hand… Blood is their favourite...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 23/04/2009
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My Brother's Hot Cross Bottom
Jeremy Strong
Nicholas and his family are hatching eggs for his school's Easter Fair. But the eggs keep going missing and their new rabbits, Saucepan and Nibblewibble, are causing havoc in the garden. Perhaps Cilla, their nosy new neighbor, is even more...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2009
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My Brother's Famous Bottom Goes Camping
Jeremy Strong
Another hilarious adventure for Nicholas and his accident prone family! A camping holiday sounds great but what about the pets that are coming too? How will the family - and the other campers - survive such disruption!   Click here to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/04/2008
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Lost! The Hundred mile an hour Dog
Jeremy Strong
Already the heroine of many hilarious stories Streaker, so named for her exceptional speed, gives another hilarious dog’s-eye view of the strange world of humans. When Streaker sees some pies unguarded in the back of a pie van, she is...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/01/2008
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A Very Fishy Battle
Jeremy Strong
It is true that author Jeremy Strong knows just how to make children laugh. This book follows the hilarious exploits of the pirates at pirate school and the theft of their food! In a chaotic plan involving dolphins and other...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2007
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Beware! Killer Tomatoes
Jeremy Strong
This is Jeremy's brand new monstrously funny novel. Jack has a knack of getting into trouble. After an encounter with a pyramid of tinned tomatoes in the supermarket he ends up in hospital, stuck on his back with his leg in...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 04/01/2007
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Krazy Kow Saves The World - Well, Almost
Jeremy Strong
Krazy Kow, eco-warrior and super-hero is the brilliant invention of one of the funniest authors around. I’ve yet to understand why there has been no Krazy Kow follow-up to this one because for those Jeremy Strong aficionados I’ve spoken to,...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 04/01/2007
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The Hundred mile an hour Dog
Jeremy Strong
Chosen as the Puffin Modern Classic 1990 - 1999. A World Book Day 'Recommended Read' for 2011 Featuring a boy, an extremely fast family pet dog and a bet, this is very definitely laugh-out-loud funny and chock full of action and...
Featured in: 7+ readers
Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 04/01/2007
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Return of the Hundred mile an hour Dog
Jeremy Strong
Yet more adventures featuring Trevor and the pet dog.  If boys (in particular) don’t laugh out loud when they read a book by Jeremy Strong, then I’m not sure what book will make them do so.  His books are a...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 04/01/2007
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My Granny's Great Escape
Jeremy Strong
The storyline is completely mad and the characters are brilliant particularly Granny who gets up to all sorts of antics including riding a motorbike.  You’re sure to be doubled up in agony as a consequence of extremely large doses of...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 04/01/2007
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My Mum's Going To Explode!
Jeremy Strong
Pure, unadulterated entertainment but beware, you may laugh so much that you can’t stop!!  Young readers with a sense of humour will devour it in a sitting and those without a sense of humour at the beginning will be filled...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 04/01/2007
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My Dad's Got an Alligator!
Jeremy Strong
Imagine you’re dad bringing home an alligator for a pet – would it be cool or uncool?  Well to Nicholas, who is used to his father’s weird ideas, it’s great.  Mischief ensues, in fact there is never a dull moment...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 04/01/2007
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Karate Princess In Monsta Trouble
Jeremy Strong
Zany, headlong adventure is kept under control – just! – in this hilarious adventure of Belinda, the Karate Princess. Belinda is bored and when she’s bored, her karate habit causes a great many things to get broken… Luckily, her uncle...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 18/01/2001
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Don't Go In The Cellar
Jeremy Strong
Interest Age 9+ Reading Age 8+. A crazy comedy from the bestselling author Jeremy Strong. What a silly thing to write! 'Don't Go in the Cellar.' It's just makes people WANT to go in the Cellar. People like Zack and Laura. Now,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 12/03/2012
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Mad Iris
Jeremy Strong
Interest Age 9+ Reading Age 8+. Refreshed and repackaged version of a bestselling title. A fantastic comedy featuring the maddest ostrich on the planet! A crazy ostrich wreaks havoc at Ross and Katie's school. Mad Iris doesn't like the ostrich farm. She...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 12/03/2012
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Mad Iris Goes Missing
Jeremy Strong
Interest Age 7+ Reading Age 8+It's the Cup Final and Pudding Lane are set to win. They have Mad Iris as their mascot! But what will they do when - Mad Iris goes Missing? A new adventure with the maddest...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 12/03/2012
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The Smallest Horse in the World
Jeremy Strong
Interest Age 7+ Reading Age 7+. A fun comedy about a girl and a very special horse - the smallest horse in the world! Swan calls Bella mean names and shows off about her parents' money. She says she has...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 12/03/2012
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