Jeremy Strong used to be a primary school headteacher before he became a full-time writer. He won the Children's Book Award in 1997 with The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog and is immensely popular with children. He lives in Wiltshire.

Jeremy Strong once worked in a bakery, putting the jam into three thousand doughnuts every night. Now he puts the jam into stories instead, which he finds much more exciting. He loves writing stories because it's 'the only time you alone have complete control and can make anything happen'. His ambition is to make you laugh (or at least snuffle). Jeremy Strong lives near Bath with his wife, Gillie, four cats and a flying cow.