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Page 1: Steven Butler

Steven ButlerOur visit to see an author...

Page 2: Steven Butler

An introduction to Steven Butler

This is Steven Butler

As well as an author he is an actor, dancer and trained circus performer

As a child, he hated books and reading

It was growing up in his family home, and through playing tricks with his sister, that he discovered how brilliant and exciting books can be

Steven has written 7 books, 5 he has had published!

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The life of Steven Butler

Steven’s primary school head teacher was none other than the fantastically funny...

One of Steven’s favourite authors is Roald Dahl.

His favourite books and inspiration come from Roald Dahl’s ‘The Twits’ and ‘The BFG’

The first book Steven ever read was ‘Matilda’...it took him a whole year to read it!

Jeremy Strong!A rock and roll head teacher just like our very own Mr Shepherd!

The Twits

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Dennis the Menace

This is Steven’s first Dennis the Menace book, it is already in the shops

The next book in the series is due out in May, the third in August

Each book is a diary of one whole term in school

Steven has also written a series of books called ‘The Wrong Pong’ about trolls

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And now for our challenge!

Each class has a section from Steven Butler’s ‘Diary of Dennis the Menace’

Back in your class we would like you to put yourselves in Dennis’ shoes and write a diary entry...you know the sorts of things that Dennis gets up to!

We would like to give a prize to the winning challenge so, have fun and get writing!

World Book Day Challenge