Jeremy Strong author page

Jeremy Strong biography

Jeremy Strong is an English writer of children’s books. He has written more than 100 children’s books, and his previous jobs included bakery work putting jam into doughnuts, work as a caretaker, strawberry-picking and office work for British Rail.

The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog, illustrated by Nick Sharratt, is a chapter book for children with an interest age of 6 to 9 and a reading age of 7+. Penguin published the book in 2007, and its story follows Trevor, who is offered £30 to walk Streaker the dog every day during the summer.

The Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Dog was published by Puffin on 4 January 2007 in a 128-page paperback edition with ISBN 9780141322346. Other books in the same Streaker sequence include Return of the Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Dog, Lost! The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog, Wanted! The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog, Christmas Chaos for the Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog and The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog Goes for Gold.

Strong’s other Puffin titles for readers aged 7 to 12 include My Brother’s Famous Bottom Takes Off!, My Brother’s Famous Bottom Makes a Splash!, Romans on the Rampage, Romans on the Rampage: Jail Break!, Romans on the Rampage: Chariot Champions, Cartoon Kid, Batpants! and Batpants and the Vanishing Elephant.

Jeremy Strong teaching resources

• Scholastic’s Jeremy Strong Resource Pack is a 42-page PDF for The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog and My Brother’s Famous Bottom, with material for 18 one-hour lessons covering reading, persuasive writing, similes, alliteration, rhyme, adjectives, adverbs, magazine writing, drama, speaking and listening, history, food technology, design technology, art and citizenship.
• Puffin Books’ Romans on the Rampage resource pack is a 19-page PDF for ages 7-11, with four to five literacy lessons linked to Roman history, including an extract, Latin vocabulary work, fact-finding, chariot-team activities, newspaper writing, timelines, planning frames and a word search.
• Scholastic’s Lost! The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog book talk note is a two-page PDF for age 6+ with a story summary, themes, a chapter-reading session, discussion questions, prediction work and a Streaker character-profile activity.
• World Book Day’s Storycraft video with Jeremy Strong is a four-minute writing clip in which he answers the question: How do you write something that makes people laugh?
• icould’s Jeremy Strong career video provides a short video and transcript about writing children’s books, becoming a primary teacher, using classroom experience in fiction, and continuing after early rejection.
• Schofield & Sims’ KS2 Comprehension Teacher’s Guide includes teacher guidance for the extract “Invasion” from Jeremy Strong’s I’m Telling You They’re Aliens, with answers, language notes, idiomatic-phrase work, a character-description writing task and a class debate prompt.