When Haroon's mum brings his baby brother into school, Izzy and her friends are ALARMED! The baby is clearly using mind control because the office ladies are being REALLY NICE. He spells space words with his blocks and he REALLY LIKES SCHOOL DINNERS! But it's when he starts USING HIS ALIEN PHONE that they know. Haroon's baby brother is from outer space and he's MAKING CONTACT WITH ALIENS!

A brand new laugh-out-loud story created especially for World Book Day by Blue Peter Award winners Pamela Butchart and Thomas Flintham.

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!


The third zippy and zany tale by Pamela Butchart sees Izzy and her friends plunged into more primary-school craziness. This time, they decide 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...

Another brilliantly funny longer read for the newly confident reader from the best-selling, award-winning, author-illustrator team, Pamela Butchart and Thomas Flintham.

Read more of Izzy's adventures!

Baby Aliens Got My Teacher

The Spy Who Loved School Dinners

Attack of the Demon Dinner Ladies

To Wee Or Not To Wee!

There's a Werewolf in my Tent

There's a Yeti in the Playground

The Phantom Lollipop Man

Icarus Was Ridiculous


The Broken Leg of Doom

by Pamela Butchart

Published 14 January 2021
Hilarious, illustrated school-based antics where everything that happens leads to DRAMA and RUNNING AROUND and even some FAINTING!

When a session of extreme dancing leaves Maisie in hospital with a broken leg, things take a turn for the weird! Strange noises in the ward at night, missing cuddly toys and a sandwich trolley that only ever has TUNA sandwiches. Could Maisie's leg be CURSED? If it is, and it DEFINITELY IS, then everything is DOOMED!

Laugh-out-loud fun from Blue Peter Award winners Pamela Butchart and Thomas Flintham.

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!

There's a Yeti in the Playground!

Icarus Was Ridiculous


The Phantom Lollipop Man

by Pamela Butchart

Published 8 February 2018
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?! Laugh-out-loud fun from Blue Peter Award winners Pamela Butchart and Thomas Flintham.

Read more of Izzy's adventures!

Baby Aliens Got My Teacher

The Spy Who Loved School Dinners

My Headteacher Is a Vampire Rat

To Wee Or Not To Wee!

There's a Werewolf in my Tent

There's a Yeti in the Playground

The Phantom Lollipop Man

Icarus Was Ridiculous


Izzy and friends are excited! The snow is falling fast and they're hoping they'll all be sent home early. But then they hear weird noises in the playground, and find a big footprint in the snow... And that's when they know! There's a YETI in the playground and it's HUNGRY!

Laugh-out-loud fun from Blue Peter Award winners Pamela Butchart and Thomas Flintham.

Read more of Izzy's adventures!

Baby Aliens Got My Teacher

The Spy Who Loved School Dinners

My Headteacher Is a Vampire Rat

The Demon Dinner Ladies

There's a Werewolf in my Tent

To Wee or Not to Wee

The Phantom Lollipop Man

Icarus Was Ridiculous


Icarus Was Ridiculous

by Pamela Butchart

Published 12 September 2019
Izzy LOVES all the stories the Ancient Greeks told! She can't wait to tell her friends about Icarus, who was a TOTAL NUMPTY, and the Trojan Horse, which ended a war and wasn't even REAL! So pull up a plinth and enjoy all the DRAMA of the original Greek myths, as told by Pamela Butchart and Thomas Flintham, in collaboration with the British Museum. Now with even more SANDALS!

Laugh-out-loud fun from Blue Peter Award winners Pamela Butchart and Thomas Flintham.

Read more of Izzy's adventures!

Baby Aliens Got My Teacher

The Spy Who Loved School Dinners

My Headteacher Is a Vampire Rat

The Demon Dinner Ladies

There's a Werewolf in my Tent

To Wee or Not to Wee

The Phantom Lollipop Man

There's a Yeti in the Playground


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!

More laugh-out-loud antics from awardwinning author-illustrator team, Pamela Butchart and Thomas Flintham. School has never been so much fun!

Read more of Izzy's adventures!

Baby Aliens Got My Teacher

The Spy Who Loved School Dinners

My Headteacher Is a Vampire Rat

To Wee Or Not To Wee!

There's a Werewolf in my Tent

There's a Yeti in the Playground

The Phantom Lollipop Man

Icarus Was Ridiculous


To Wee or Not to Wee

by Pamela Butchart

Published 7 April 2016

Hamlet could NEVER make his mind up about ANYTHING. And one time he actually went to school in just his pants and got sent home because he couldn't decide what to wear.

When Izzy (star of The Spy Who Loved School Dinners) is asked to tell her friends some HILARIOUS and SCARY stories she knows exactly where to look: Shakespeare, the king of SUPER dramatic stuff.

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. The perfect introduction to the Bard!

Izzy's version of Macbeth originally appeared on the BBC Radio series 'Shakespeare Retold', read by actress Shirley Henderson (who played Moaning Myrtle in the Harry Potter films!).

Read more of Izzy's adventures in these other books written by Pamela Butchart:

Baby Aliens Got My Teacher
The Spy Who Loved School Dinners
My Headteacher Is a Vampire Rat
Attack of the Demon Dinner Ladies


Izzy and her friends are SO EXCITED about their school trip. They're going camping and there'll be marshmallows and no washing and everything. 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!

Another brilliantly funny longer read for the newly confident reader from the best-selling, award-winning, author-illustrator team, Pamela Butchart and Thomas Flintham.

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 Yeti in the Playground

The Phantom Lollipop Man

Icarus Was Ridiculous


Baby Aliens Got My Teacher

by Pamela Butchart

Published 9 January 2014

From the Laugh Out Loud Book award-winning creators!


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 only be one conclusion: she's been taken over by aliens, and now she wants to make them all aliens too!

Another brilliantly funny longer read for the newly confident reader from the best-selling, award-winning, author-illustrator team, Pamela Butchart and Thomas Flintham.

Read more of Izzy's adventures!

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

There's a Yeti in the Playground

The Phantom Lollipop Man

Icarus Was Ridiculous


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 school dinners (also known as poison). But Mathilde LOVES school dinners and even has seconds!


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


A brilliant, laugh-out-loud story about everyday school life turned on its head. Clear, appealing black and white illustrations bring the humour to life!


Read more of Izzy's adventures!

  • Baby Aliens Got My Teacher
  • 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
  • There's a Yeti in the Playground
  • The Phantom Lollipop Man
  • Icarus Was Ridiculous

Hilarious, illustrated school-based antics where everything that happens leads to DRAMA and RUNNING AROUND and even some FAINTING!


Winner of the Laugh Out Loud Book Awards 2023!


Izzy and her friends are on a school trip to a big lake. Gary Petrie is excited because the lodges where they're staying have ROBES AND SLIPPERS! The lake is dark and deep and a bit scary. But it's when they open their packed lunches that they know! There's a MONSTER in the lake and it's coming for their CRISPS!

Laugh-out-loud fun from Blue Peter Award winners Pamela Butchart and Thomas Flintham.

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!

There's a Yeti in the Playground!

Icarus Was Ridiculous

The Broken Leg of Doom


The Secret School Invasion

by Pamela Butchart

Published 18 August 2022

Hilarious, pitch-perfect stories where everyday school life becomes completely extraordinary! By a brilliant author/illustrator team with laughs on every page!


Izzy's school is being merged with St Bartholomew's Primary, their greatest rivals! What will happen when the new kids join, in their too-shiny shoes and with their too-loud singing? And what if they've got a secret mission and that mission is a BAD mission? Only Izzy and her friends can discover the truth, even if they must go SO DEEP UNDERCOVER that they might not come back...


The Great Crisp Robbery

by Pamela Butchart

Published 18 July 2024

Another hilarious tale of primary school life from the Blue Peter award-winning team. Nothing is as it seems for Izzy and friends, and the drama is always off the scale...


Izzy and friends are excited to find that their school trip involves an overnight train ride. But when they get on board, they're shocked to discover that EVERYTHING is STRANGE. And the BUNK BEDS are TINY! And then their teacher disappears... OH NO! Miss Jones has been kidnapped! EVERYONE PANIC!!!