Dear Little Me #3: Steven Butler

Steven Butler is the awesome writer of The Diaries of Dennis the Menace. He used to love The Beano and now he’s penning menacing manuals packed with the Bad Boy of Books’ trouble-making tips and tricks. But while Steven is a bit of a joker himself – he can also be very serious and here’s some very good advice which he’d give his younger self. Tell Your Teacher: You can find out more about how Steven became a writer when he pays a trip to his old school (where legendary writer Jeremy Strong was headmaster) in Puffin Virtually Live: Dennis the Menace. Sign up now for FREE and get ready for the best, most-menacing, lesson ever!!

 Think you could grow-up to be a writer? Steven is from Kent where there are lots of green open spaces and rolling fields. For your chance to WIN a writer’s retreat with Holiday Cottages enter the Puffin Prize Draw! 

Puffin Podcast Episode 4: Food Glorious Food

We hope you’re hungry because this month’s Puffin Podcast is a veritable smorgasbord of literary soundbites. Host Ally McCrae is joined in the studio by Douglas Hodge (Willy Wonka in the WestEnd), Jacqueline Wilson and the foley artists of Pinewood studios, who are all talking about tucker – and some of our favourite authors share their brain food too! Plus there are audiobook extracts from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Steven Butler’s The Wrong Pong and The Enormous Crocodile (read by Stephen Fry). Oh, and don’t miss the live report from the Wonderland Courthouse and a mammoth food fight between two Puffin eggheads. Digest at your leisure.

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Host Ally McCrae

 

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Roald Dahl Audiobooks App: po.st/AK66KB
The Wrong Pong, Steven Butler: po.st/jrxrVR
Puffin Virtually Live presents Jacqueline Wilson: www.puffinvirtuallylive.co.uk/
Four Children and It, Jacqueline Wilson: po.st/c5alff

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