Pamela Butchart is a Scottish children's author and high school philosophy teacher. Butchart is best known for her books, The Spy Who Loved School Dinners and My Head Teacher is a Vampire Rat, both of which won book awards.

Butchart has an MA in philosophy from the University of Dundee and a PGDE from the University of Edinburgh. After graduating, Butchart became a philosophy teacher at Harris Academy in Dundee.^[1][2]

She began writing children's books after her fiancé gave her a book on how to write for children.^[1] Butchart has said that Judith Kerr is one of her influences.^[3]

Butchart won the 2015 Blue Peter Book Award for Best story for her book, The Spy Who Loved School Dinners which was illustrated by Thomas Flintham.^[4]

In 2016, Butchart's book, My Teacher is a Vampire Rat won the Red House Children's Book Award in the Young Readers Category and for overall winner.^[5]

In 2017, it was announced that Butchart would write the sixteenth and seventeenth Secret Seven novels, the first additions to the series since 1963. The original series was written by Enid Blyton.^[6] The first book, called Mystery of the Skull, was published in July 2018 and the second, Mystery of the Theatre Ghost, was published in February 2019.^[7]

Butchart lives in Broughty Ferry, Dundee with her husband, Andy Cunningham, whom she married in July 2014.^[8]

Pugly Series

• Pugly Bakes a Cake illustrated by Gemma Correll (2016) ISBN 9780857635990
• Pugly Solves a Crime (2016) ISBN 0857636766
• Pugly On Ice (2016) ISBN 0857638963

Baby Aliens Series

• Baby Aliens Got My Teacher! (2014) ISBN 9780857632371
• The Spy who loved School Dinners (2014) ISBN 0857632574
• My Head Teacher is a Vampire Rat illustrated by Thomas Flintham (2015) ASIN B00S46UFHU
• Attack of the Demon Dinner Ladies illustrated by Thomas Flintham (2016) ISBN 0857636065
• To Wee or Not to Wee illustrated by Thomas Flintham (2016) ASIN B01EYGLXNI
• There's a Werewolf in My Tent! illustrated by Thomas Flintham (2017) ISBN 0857639064
• The Phantom Lollipop Man! illustrated by Thomas Flintham (2018) ASIN B077T32TZK
• There's a Yeti in the Playground! (2018)

Wigglesbottom Primary Series

• Wigglesbottom Primary:The Toilet Ghost illustrated by Becka Moor (2014) ISBN 0857634267
• Wigglesbottom Primary: The Shark in the Pool illustrated by Becka Moor (2015) ISBN 085763481X
• Wigglesbottom Primary: The Magic Hamster illustrated by Becka Moor (2016) ISBN 0857635301
• Wigglesbottom Primary: Super Dog! illustrated by Becka Moor (2017) ISBN 0857636758

Yikes Series

• Yikes, Stinkysaurus! (2014) ISBN 1408837064
• Yikes, Santasaurus! (2014) ISBN 1408851385
• Yikes, Ticklysaurus! illustrated by Sam Lloyd (2015) ASIN B00XN8UG5U
• Yikes, Santa-CLAWS! illustrated by Sam Lloyd (2015) ISBN 1408851377

Stand-alone books

• Petunia Perry and the Curse of the Ugly Pigeon (2015) ISBN 9780857634887
• Never Tickle a Tiger illustrated by Marc Boutavant (2016) ISBN 1408839032