R. A. Spratt

Bio

R.A.Spratt is an award-winning comedy writer with twelve 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 a baby and got a book deal and has rarely left the house since.  She has three published books 'The Adventures of Nanny Piggins', 'Nanny Piggins and the Wicked Plan' and “Nanny Piggins and the Runaway Lion”.  Her fourth book "Nanny Piggins and the Accidental Blast-off" is coming out in January 2011 and is currently working on the 5th and 6th installments in the 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.

Nanny Piggins and the Wicked Plan 

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.

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.

Nanny Piggins and the Accidental Blast-Off

(to be released January 2011)

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.

Interesting Facts about R.A. Spratt

(of the type that inexplicably appear in biographies)

R.A. lives in a house with her cat, her daughter and her husband.

R.A.’s hobbies include making lots of money and sleeping. Sadly, she rarely gets to do either.

R.A.’s cat is called Diggy-Doo. No one ever spells this correctly.

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