Chae Strathie

He was educated in a secret underwater laboratory built by the Government, before escaping by holding onto a haddock at the age of 18. After that he embarked on a series of ill-fated schemes designed to win friends and impress girls. The most notable of these disastrous outings was his attempt to reach the South Pole on a £2.99 plastic sledge pulled by a team of cats.

Chae is a world famous horse-whisperer, weasel-murmerer and bee-shouter and is the creator of all the most successful Broadway musicals since 1972.

Chae Strathie is prone to flights of fancy.

Chae started writing silly stuff for children in his 20’s and his first two picture books - My Dad and The Tickle Tree - have been published by those nice people at Meadowside. He recently signed a four book deal with Scholastic.

He currently works as a sub-editor for a national newspaper and lives in a quiet fishing village in Fife with his wife Corinna, daughter Eilidh, three cats, a goldfish and numerous uninvited spiders. Eilidh wants some giant land snails, but if she thinks she’s bringing them into the house she’s got another thing coming.

Eilidh is following in her father’s footsteps and recently had one of her stories published in Wow 366, the charity anthology published by Scholastic to celebrate the National Year of reading.

Chae’s greatest claim to fame is once appearing in an episode of Channel 4’s Location, Location, Location. They didn’t find him a house.

He plays guitar and harmonica (but don’t hold that against him) and writes and records his own songs.

In a recent survey, 9 out of 10 cats said they preferred Chae Strathie.