“AAHHHHH!!!! I am going to see TAYLOR SWIFT in concert. And, in case it wasn’t obvious, I am Taylor’s official biggest fan ever. I don’t have a certificate or a badge or anything to prove it. But I know a lot about Taylor Swift. Like, a LOT. I’m pretty sure I know facts about Taylor Swift that even her BEST FRIENDS, her FAMILY and her CATS don’t know. And I’m going to write them all down here as I prepare for the MOST IMPORTANT EVENT of my entire LIFE.”

Gemma is a Taylor Swift superfan.

As she journals the build-up to her first Taylor concert, she’s also navigating school, friendships, a dad who refuses to accept why Taylor Swift is the most talented musician in the world AND trying to become a songwriter herself.

Alongside record-breaking facts and stats about Taylor, her music, and of course her cats, this is a warm and funny tween diary narrative about owning who you are and following your dreams.

The first book in a brand new series about the lives of pop stars through the eyes of a superfan, by bestselling and award-winning children’s book author, Pamela Butchart.

Not endorsed by, affiliated with, or approved by Taylor Swift

Perfect for newly-independent readers, these are hilarious school stories from award-winning Pamela Butchart, brilliantly illustrated by Becka Moor.

When the school guinea pigs escape, it’s CHAOS! Class 2R are determined to find all the hairy little runaways, but what if the guinea pigs actually don’t want to be found…?

More side-splittingly funny Wigglesbottom Primary books:

• Wigglesbottom Primary: The Toilet Ghost
• Wigglesbottom Primary: The Magic Hamster
• Wigglesbottom Primary: The Shark in the Pool
• Wigglesbottom Primary: Super Dog!
• Wigglesbottom Primary: The Classroom Cat
• and many, many more classroom capers!

One day Izzy and her friends are surprised to find that their teacher, Miss Jones, is actually being NICE to them! This is the woman who was caught secretly smiling when Maisie Miller fell off her chair… There can be only ONE conclusion: she’s been taken over by ALIENS, and now she wants to make them all aliens too!

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
• The Spy Who Loved School Dinners – Blue Peter Award Winner 2015
• Attack of the Demon Dinner Ladies
• To Wee Or Not To Wee!
• There’s a Yeti in the Playground
• The Phantom Lollipop Man
• Icarus Was Ridiculous
• and many more!

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

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
• The Spy Who Loved School Dinners – Blue Peter Award Winner 2015
• Attack of the Demon Dinner Ladies
• To Wee Or Not To Wee!
• There’s a Yeti in the Playground
• The Phantom Lollipop Man
• Icarus Was Ridiculous
• and many more!

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

Izzy and her friends have decided that their new head teacher is a vampire rat, based on his being slightly scary, having the blinds drawn in his office during the day and the fact he’s banned garlic bread at lunchtimes… Now they just have to come up with a plan to VANQUISH him!

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
• The Spy Who Loved School Dinners – Blue Peter Award Winner 2015
• Attack of the Demon Dinner Ladies
• To Wee Or Not To Wee!
• There’s a Yeti in the Playground
• The Phantom Lollipop Man
• Icarus Was Ridiculous
• and many more!

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

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

Izzy and her friends hate school dinners. And they hate the shepherd’s pie in particular.

And now something strange seems to be happening to the dinner ladies. They’re wearing new hats, they’re cooking new food (still horrible) and there are lots and lots of new rules. But it’s when Maisie is taken away by seagulls that they KNOW! The dinner ladies have been taken over and they are about to ATTACK!

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
• The Spy Who Loved School Dinners – Blue Peter Award Winner 2015
• Attack of the Demon Dinner Ladies
• To Wee Or Not To Wee!
• There’s a Yeti in the Playground
• The Phantom Lollipop Man
• Icarus Was Ridiculous
• and many more!

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

After learning about Macbeth (a STRONG solider who ate four bowls of porridge and twenty pieces of toast every morning) her friends want more. So Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Romeo and Juliet all get the Izzy treatment. There’s blood and guts, ghosty stuff, and plenty of people wandering around in their nighties.

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
• The Spy Who Loved School Dinners – Blue Peter Award Winner 2015
• Attack of the Demon Dinner Ladies
• To Wee Or Not To Wee!
• There’s a Yeti in the Playground
• The Phantom Lollipop Man
• Icarus Was Ridiculous
• and many more!

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

But then WEIRD things start happening! There are howling sounds at night, and some sausages have gone missing, and it’s nearly a full moon… But it’s when they see their new teacher’s hairy legs that they KNOW! There’s a werewolf on the school trip and they’re all DOOMED!

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
• The Spy Who Loved School Dinners – Blue Peter Award Winner 2015
• Attack of the Demon Dinner Ladies
• To Wee Or Not To Wee!
• There’s a Yeti in the Playground
• The Phantom Lollipop Man
• Icarus Was Ridiculous
• and many more!

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

Izzy and her friends are shocked when they find their lollipop man has disappeared! Maisie thinks he’s gone to Rome but if that’s true, why do they keep seeing a weird white wispy cloud around the school? And why do Izzy’s legs feel cold even though she’s got tights on?Could it be that the lollipop man is a PHANTOM and he’s come to spook them all?!

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
• The Spy Who Loved School Dinners – Blue Peter Award Winner 2015
• Attack of the Demon Dinner Ladies
• To Wee Or Not To Wee!
• There’s a Yeti in the Playground
• The Phantom Lollipop Man
• Icarus Was Ridiculous
• and many more!

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

And that’s when they know! There’s a YETI in the playground and it’s HUNGRY!

Read more of Izzy’s adventures!

• Baby Aliens Got My Teacher
• The Spy Who Loved School Dinners
• My Headteacher Is a Vampire Rat
• Attack of the Demon Dinner Ladies
• To Wee Or Not To Wee!
• There’s a Werewolf In My Tent!
• The Phantom Lollipop Man!
• and many more!