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 Granny's Great Escape
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- My Mum's Going to Explode!
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- Pirate School: The Bun Gun
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- Stuff
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- Pirate School: Where's That Dog?
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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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- 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 Battle for Christmas
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- Weird
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- Wanted! The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog
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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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- Giant Jim And The Hurricane
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- The Indoor Pirates On Treasure Island
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- I'm Telling You, They're Aliens!
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- Doctor Bonkers!
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- Jeremy Strong's Laugh-Your-Socks-Off Classroom Chaos Joke Book
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- My Brother's Christmas Bottom - Unwrapped!
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- Batpants!
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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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- There's a Viking in My Bed and Other Stories
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- The Karate Princess/The Karate Princess in Monsta Trouble (Flip Book)
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- Cartoon Kid
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- Cartoon Kid
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- Cartoon Kid - Supercharged!
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- Batpants and the Vanishing Elephant
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- Pirate Pandemonium/Pandemonium at School (Flip Book)
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- Cartoon Kid - Supercharged!
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- Christmas Chaos for the Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog
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- Dinosaur Pox
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- I'm Telling You, They're Aliens!
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- Pirate School: Just a Bit of Wind
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- Pirate School: The Birthday Bash
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- Pirate School: The Bun Gun
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- Pirate School: A Very Fishy Battle
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- The Battle for Christmas
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- My Mum's Going to Explode!
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- Krazy Kow Saves the World - Well, Almost
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