R.A. Spratt was born in the UK and lived in Dursley,
Gloucestershire - a town immortalised by Harry Potter's deeply
unpleasant relatives - until she was two years old. Then, like many
ambitious English people cursed with regional accents so strong no
other British person can take them seriously, her family moved to
Australia.
The tedium of growing up in the western suburbs of Sydney was
fertiliser to the growth of R.A.'s imagination. The only thing for
a kid to do was get on a bicycle and go to the library, so R.A.
Spratt did just that. Once there, she read everything, devouring
the books of Arthur Ransome, Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl, Robin Klein
and Judy Blume, and audiotapes of Shakespeare productions and
Sherlock Holmes dramatisations. And so, her young mind was formed,
and set on the path of becoming the extraordinary author she is
today.
Now based in Bowral NSW, she's the bestselling writer of dozens of
absurd and witty books including Friday Barnes, The Adventures of
Nanny Piggins, The Peski Kids and the Shockingly and Astonishingly
Good Stories collections. Her podcast, Bedtime Stories with R.A.
Spratt, has had over 4 million downloads and connects R.A. with
story-lovers across the globe.
For more information, visit raspratt.com
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