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. If she wasn't a writer and philosophy teacher, she'd probably open a luxury hotel for stray cats. Her 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.