Author of the best-selling HOLES.Lively and engaging eight book series for 5-7 year olds.Illustrated throughout in black and white line by the brilliant Sue Hellard who lends her very own sense of humour to the series.

'Louis Sachar is one of the few masters of American fiction.' Independent on Sunday 'an exceptionally funny and generous book that is also a tightly plotted detective novel.' Praise for Holes, The Guardian 'a profoundly touching, funny and realistic novel about peer pressure and conscience.' Praise for the Boy Who Lost His Face, Sunday Telegraph 'Thirty clever, fast-moving stories that describe the bizarre events at Wayside School...each story is refreshingly different.' Praise for Sideways Stories from Wayside School, The Guardian

Louis Sachar is the author of the much acclaimed HOLES, now a feature film, which has won major American literary prizes including the Newbery and the National Book Award for Young People's Literature. He lives in Austin, Texas. Louis is the author of many books for children including the Wayside School series, the Marvin Redpost series, Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Greenlake, There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom, Dogs Don't Tell Jokes and The Boy Who Lost His Face.