FANTASTIC LAUNCH FOR THE TV TIME TRAVELLERS

Pete’s new book, The TV Time Travellers, had a fantastic launch (above) at the Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield on Wednesday 10th June. This special event was co-ordinated by The Sheffield School Library Service and Random Children’s Publishers. Over 800 children packed into the theatre. Afterwards there was a sensational book-signing at which over 600 books were sold. The queue at Pete’s book-signing (left) snaked right round the theatre. Pete said: “This is quite simply the best launch I’ve ever had.”

A NEW BARRINGTON STOKE: SHUT IT!

Some of Pete’s best-loved stories are published by Barrington Stoke, including the acclaimed comedy, Diary of an (Un)teenager, about a boy who dreads becoming a teenager. (Pete is currently writing a sequel to this one) and The Best Holiday Ever, about a group of teenagers on their first-ever holiday abroad without parents, offering ‘riotous humour and action a-plenty from a master of the comedy genre.’ The perfect holiday read, in fact.

Now in August comes a new, hilarious Barrington Stoke: Shut It, about a boy who protests against his ‘rubbish life,’ by deciding not to speak for a whole month. Click here to read an exclusive extract ...

Coming in August: Shut It!

SPOOK SCHOOL – A GREAT NEW SERIES

Don’t miss Spook School, a brand new comedy-thriller series about two ghosts who come back to Earth to solve scary and baffling mysteries. The first two books: Spook School: Lair of the Mothman, and Spook School: Curse of the Rat-Beast, are published in September by STRIPES.

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What are Pete's favourite childhood reads? Click here to find his top seven books.

Left: A great event at St Martin's Prep School, Northwood, during Children's Book Week.

BUG BROTHER IS BACK

One of Pete’s best-loved titles, Bug Brother, about Jamie and his magic cape, is now available again in a great new edition from Catnip. This is the one in which Jamie makes a wish on his cape and turns his annoying younger brother, Harry  - into a bluebottle. And then Jamie can’t turn his brother back . . .

Click here to read an extract from Bug Brother

WELCOME TO THE OFFICIAL PETE JOHNSON WEBSITE!

“Dear Pete Johnson, I am writing to you because our class is studying you as a significant author and you never guess what, you’re fab.”

Each week Pete receives letters like this one from Kane, in Salford, and he takes care to answer them all, as Pete was inspired to become a writer through his correspondence with an author – Dodie Smith, who wrote his all-time favourite children’s book: ‘The 101 Dalmatians.’

Pete has now written over forty books, which have been translated into more than twenty languages. He is best known for his award-winning comedies such as ‘How To Train Your Parents,’ ‘Help! I’m a Classroom Gambler,’ ‘Trust me, I’m a Troublemaker,’ ‘How to Get Famous,’ and ‘Diary of an(Un)teenager’ and thrillers such as ‘The Ghost dog, ‘Traitor, and ‘The Frighteners.’ He has also written highly popular titles for younger readers including, ‘Pirate Brother,’ ‘Bug Brother,’ and soon to be launched, ‘Spook School’ series.

The Times wrote that Pete Johnson provides a ‘heady cocktail of compulsive readability.’ He has also been described by TES as ‘one of our best contemporary humorists,’ and praised for ‘writing about characters that every child will recognise and every adult should try to understand.’ (The Observer)

Pete Johnson lives in St Albans, England. He is a movie fan - both of current films and British and American films from the 1940s and 1950s. He has been a film critic on BBC Radio One, as well as a film extra and teacher of English and Drama. He collects signed books, of which he has several hundred.

[Find out more in About Pete]

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