Contact Details
R.A. SprattPO Box 159
Beecroft NSW 2119
Australia
Or contact R.A.Spratt’s agent…
Elizabeth Troyeur & Associates
Creative Artists Representation
16 Princess Avenue
Rosebery NSW 2018
Australia
Endorsements & Reviews
The Adventures of Nanny Piggins has won Booklist's 'Top of the List' award for best Youth Fiction 2010!
“The Adventures of Nanny Piggins is the most exciting saga about a flying pig nanny ever told. There is a laugh on every page and a lesson in there somewhere. I recommend it highly.”
- Madeleine Albright
(former US Secretary of State)
"A wonderful family read-aloud".
- The New York Public Library has included The Adventures of Nanny Piggins on it's '100 Titles for Reading and Sharing' list (2010).
'Mary Poppins, move over - or get shoved out of the way. Nanny Piggins has arrived...Stuffing adjectives into this review is as easy as watching Nanny Piggins stuff pies into her mouth. This is smart, sly, funny, and marvelously illlustrated with drawings that capture Nanny's sheer pigginess. Readers may worry that this first novel is full of so many stories about Nanny Piggins there won't be enough left for sequels. Never fear. The last line of the book predicts Nanny will be stirring up more adventures, "possibly even before breakfast."'
- Booklist (American Library Association periodical)
"...When petite and porcine Sarah Piggins presents herself as nanny in answer to Green's yard sign, he hires her on the spot. She never been a nanny, but after years as a circus flying pig, she feels nannying can't be harder than being blasted out of a cannon. The three Green children, all good if slightly shy, quickly fall under Nanny Piggins's perky lunatic spell...Spratt's Mary Poppins-cum-Paddington Bear with sprinkling of Snickettian humor makes for a terrific read aloud..."
- Kirkus Reviews
Upcoming Events
25th March 2012
Nanny Piggins and I will be speaking at the Norman Lindsay Festival of Children's Literature in the Blue Mountains.
July 2012
Book 2, "Nanny Piggins and the Wicked Plan" will go on sale in America. Nanny Piggins is dressed like a pirate on the cover and looks spectacular!
June 2012
The paperback edition of Book 1, "The Adventures of Nanny Piggins" will go on sale in America. It has a gold star on the cover and looks fantastic!
October 2012
Portugese language versions Books 1, 2 and 3 will go on sale in Brazil...
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R. A. SprattYou are listening to R.A.Spratt reading an extract from Chapter 1 of "The Adventures of Nanny Piggins". |
Bio
R.A.Spratt is an award-winning comedy writer with thirteen years experience in the television industry. She started out writing political satire, then moved into sketch comedy, then pre-school drama and in more recent years has worked mainly in animation. R.A. Spratt lives in Sydney. She used to enjoy bellringing, hapkido and long distance running. But then she had two children has rarely left the house since. She is currently working on the 6th installment in the Nanny Piggins series.
Books
The Adventures of Nanny Piggins
It all starts when Nanny Piggins (the world's most glamorous flying pig) runs away from the circus and goes to live with the Greens as their nanny. The Green children, Derrick, Samantha and Michael, fall in love with her instantly. Who could not fall in love with a Nanny whose only job qualifications are her astonishing ability to be fired out of a cannon and her amazing ability to make chocolate cake, sometimes both at the same time? Then they have some wonderful adventures together. I won't spoil them for you by listing them all here but, suffice to say, they do include catching a serial door knob thief, hiding a 10 foot dancing bear in the basement and being lost at sea en route to China.
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Nanny Piggins and the Wicked Plan The US edition will be released in July 2012 When Mr Green announces his diabolical plan – he has decided to get married – his children (Derrick, Samantha and Michael) are horrified. Especially when they discover his real motive – he wants to get married so he can sack their beloved nanny, Nanny Piggins. Obviously their father has to be stopped, and Nanny Piggins is just the pig to do it. Because you should never ever cross a flying pig. And so, in the process of ruining Mr Green's matrimonial prospects, Nanny Piggins and the children have many exciting adventures – including being blasted across Dead Man's Gorge with an armadillo, breaking into a maximum-security prison in search of Chinese food and fighting a Gypsy Queen over a pit of fire. |
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Nanny Piggins and the Runaway Lion With a runaway lion loose in the neighbourhood, Derrick, Samantha and Michael feel scared. Nanny Piggins feels like a slice of cake. And Boris feels like that lion looks strangely familiar. In this third action-packed book of adventures, Nanny Piggins tames a lion and a lion tamer. She also revolutionises the sport of ski jumping, introduces hot-pink leotards to the local Neighbourhood Watch, demonstrates trapeze skills on a moving bus, plays badminton with a wok and teaches Shakespeare a thing or two about how to write a play. All while thwarting Mr Green's attempt to send her favourite children to Nicaragua (she does find it wearisome having to put him in his place constantly). And yet somehow she still finds time to bake lots and lots of cake. |
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Nanny Piggins and the Accidental Blast-Off Derrick, Samantha and Michael should be in school. Instead they find themselves in NASA's space shuttle, which Nanny Piggins manages to accidentally launch, blasting them all into outer space. This time she has gone too far. In this thrilling fourth instalment of her adventures, Nanny Piggins wrestles with a crocodile, bungy jumps of the roof using the elastic from Mr Green's underpants, staples chicken wire over their chimney to keep out Santa, captures an apricot danish loving jewel thief and rescues her brother, Boris, from an onslaught of professional wrestlers. |
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Nanny Piggins and the Rival Ringmaster In book five of her enthralling adventures, Nanny Piggins discovers some startling truths about the ruthless Ringmaster, provides counselling to a Molavadian princess with pre-wedding jitters, inadvertently wins a Nobel Prize while impersonating her sister and catches up with her favourite 4 tonne friend, Esmeralda the forgetful elephant. |
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Nanny Piggins and the Pursuit of Justice (to be released January 2012) Nanny Piggins gets in trouble with the law after some illicit tight rope walking, and is sentenced to 5000 hours community service. But she isn't the type of pig to take her punishment lying down, not when there are old people to rescue, pirates to impersonate and a great big bus to borrow. |
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Nanny Piggins and the Daring Rescue (to be released September 2012). |
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Where to Buy the Books
In the USA
'The Adventures of Nanny Piggins' is available through all good book stores, or you can buy it online using any one of these links...
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In Australia and New Zealand
The Nanny Piggins books are available through all good book shops as well as Big W, Kmart, Target, Myer and David Jones. If your local bookshop doesn’t have it in stock, ask (politely) and they should order it in for you. Alternatively you can buy them online at dymocks.com.au, abbeys.com.au, bigw.com.au, fishpond.com.au and many more.
Signed Books
If you'd like to buy a signed copy of one of my books you can contact 'The Children's Bookshop' in Beecroft (Sydney, Australia) by email staff@thechildrensbookshop.com.au or by phone 02 9481 881. They can sell you a book, then arrange for me to go in and sign it, before shipping it to you. As an added bonus I will add a signed Nanny Piggins poster to the package (until I run out of posters).
Interesting Facts about R.A. Spratt
(of the type that inexplicably appear in biographies)
R.A. lives in a house with her goldfish, her two daughters and her husband.
R.A.’s hobbies include making lots of money and sleeping. Sadly, she rarely gets to do either.
R.A. has a blackbelt in Hapkido. Yes, she could kill you with her bare hands.
R.A. travelled extensively across Europe, the Middle East, North America and Asia before realizing she was agoraphobic and never wanted to do that again.
R.A. likes to walk along the beach at sunset. But not too far, otherwise it gets dark and it’s hard to find your way back again.
R.A.Spratt is R.A.Spratt's real name. She has a birth certificate to prove it.
TV shows R.A. Spratt has worked on
Davincibles | Flipper and Lopaka New McDonalds Farm Bambaloo Life Support Backberner Good News Weeknite Lite. Good News Weekend Good News Week |