About the Author

Award-winning children's author Roy Apps began his career writing gags for stand-up comedians. Since then he has written over 80 children's books, including How To Train Your Teacher, The Fang Gang comedy series and the narrative non-fiction sports' series, Dream to Win. He has written two titles for Badger Learning - The Clown from their Big Top of Horrors Series and, more recently, Looking After Mum from their Two Sides series. Roy's TV work includes children's series such as Chucklevision and Casper's Scare School. For ten years he was a lead writer on the ground-breaking children's drama series Byker Grove. He has received a special BAFTA Writers' Award for outstanding contributions to children's film and television. Roy visits schools, libraries, bookshops and Arts Festivals all over the country to read from his books and to discover some of the amazing things that can be found in 'the shed in your head'.