The Spy Who Loved School Dinners (Izzy and Friends)

The second in a smash hit series of hilarious tales about primary school life from best-selling, award-winning creators! Packed with excellent black and white illustrations, this is the perfect longer read for newly confident readers.

Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award 2015

Nothing is quite as it seems for Izzy and her friends, and the drama is always off the scale!

Izzy is really pleased to have been put in charge of the new girl at school. Mathilde is French, and Izzy and her friends can’t wait to show her their den and its moth, and to help her avoid the school dinners (also known as poison). But Mathilde LOVES school dinners and even has seconds…

And that’s when they know that Mathilde is a SPY and she has come to find out their SECRETS. They must stop her before it’s TOO LATE!

Have you read these brilliantly funny Izzy and friends adventures?
Baby Aliens Got My Teacher
My Headteacher Is a Vampire Rat – Children’s Book Award Winner 2016
Attack of the Demon Dinner Ladies
To Wee Or Not To Wee!
There’s a Werewolf in my Tent – Lollies Shortlist 2019
There’s a Yeti in the Playground
The Phantom Lollipop Man
Icarus Was Ridiculous

Praise for Izzy and friends:
“Butchart has enviable comic timing and a shrewd understanding of how primary-aged children think, speak and speculate. Punchy short chapters, genuinely laugh-out-loud humour and Flintham’s zany pictures make the series an absolute must.” – The Bookseller

“Good jokes and lots of fun, and especially good for reluctant readers.” – Sunday Times

Pamela Butchart (Author)
Pamela lives in Dundee with her baby boy and their two awesome cats, Bear & Carlos. If she wasn't working as a writer and a teacher she'd like to open a luxury hotel for stray cats.

As a child, Pamela was lucky enough to grow up in a house full of pets and go to a primary school where lots of spooky and weird things happened (well, in her imagination at least). As a student, Pamela's student jobs included: fishwife, teaching basketball in America, phlebotomist and Artist Liaison for a (really bad) Abba tribute band.

Her top selling stories include The Spy Who Loved School Dinners which won the Blue Peter Best Story Award and My Head Teacher is a Vampire Rat which won The Children's Book Award. Two of her books, Petunia Perry and the Curse of the Ugly Pigeon and There's a Werewolf in My Tent, were shortlisted for the Lollies - the Laugh Out Loud Awards.

Thomas Flintham (Illustrator)
Thomas Flintham studied BA Fine Art at De Montfort University and in 2009 he graduated with a distinction in his Masters degree in Illustration at Camberwell College of the Arts, South London.

Thomas works digitally, drawing straight into his computer with his Wacom tablet, and in the old fashioned way on paper with brush and ink and drawing pens. He loves to draw and doodle. He has a very loose grip on reality, and enjoys disappearing into his own imagination in search of new characters, worlds and ideas to draw.

His work is influenced by his interest in all kinds of books, films, comics and Japanese video games. He loves Christmas and chocolate. He owns (almost) too many books.