Biography
Karate princesses, seasick pirates and demon vacuum cleaners... where else could these characters spring from but the playground that is the quirky imagination of Jeremy Strong?
Jeremy Strong talks about new character Krazy Kow, typing cats, and his love of cheese in our exclusive interview In the Spotlight.
THE BASICS
Born: Eltham, South East London, November 18th 1949
Jobs: Head Teacher, Teacher, Caretaker, Strawberry Picker, Jam Doughnut Stuffer (yes, really!)
Lives: Kent
First book: Smith's Tail, 1978
THE BOOKS
Jeremy Strong's work is characterised by humour and direct child appeal. 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. He was not allowed to read comics as a child, and consequently discovered The Beano at the formative age of sixteen. Jeremy Strong's ideas come fr...
Interview
South-east London; 18 November 1949
FAVOURITE BOOK:
The House at Pooh Corner
MOST TREASURED POSSESSION:
My memories
FAVOURITE SONG:
The Ying-Tong song: 'Ying Tong Tiddle-I-Po!'
FAVOURITE FILM:
Duck Soup, the Marx Brothers
When did you start writing?
When I was about six, but I was about eight when I began to feel that writing stories - inventing things and using my imagination - was absolutely brilliant. When I was about eighteen I started writing very serious stories for adults, but none of them were published. By the time I was twenty-one I was writing stories for children, and I quickly realized that I loved writing funny stories and making people laugh.
Where do you get your ideas?
Anywhere and everywhere - from my head, from places, things I see or hear, from history, from friends... The best ideas...
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- My Brother's Famous Bottom Goes Camping
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- Beware! Killer Tomatoes
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- Krazy Kow Saves the World - Well, Almost
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- Chicken School
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- My Granny's Great Escape
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- My Mum's Going to Explode!
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- Stuff
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- Pirate School: The Birthday Bash
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- The Shocking Adventures of Lightning Lucy
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- Pirate School: Just a Bit of Wind
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- Trouble with Animals
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- The Karate Princess in Monsta Trouble
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- Pirate Pandemonium
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- Pandemonium at School
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- Viking at School
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- Fatbag: The Demon Vacuum Cleaner
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- The Karate Princess
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- My Brother's Hot Cross Bottom
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- Jeremy Strong's Laugh-Your-Socks-Off Joke Book
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- Let's Do The Pharaoh!
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- Dinosaur Pox
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- There's A Pharaoh In Our Bath!
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- The Indoor Pirates On Treasure Island
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- The Indoor Pirates
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- I'm Telling You, They're Aliens!
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- Batpants!
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- My Brother's Famous Bottom
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- ePub eBook: Jan 04 2007
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- Krankenstein's Crazy House of Horror
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- Jeremy Strong's Laugh-Your-Socks-Off-Even-More Joke Book
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- Paperback: Aug 06 2009
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- There's a Viking in My Bed and Other Stories
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- Paperback: Jan 01 2009

- The Hundred Mile-An-Hour Dog
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