Jim Eldridge is the author of numerous children’s books. He is best known for his My Story (Scholastic) titles and the Wrestling Trolls series (Hot Key). Disgusting Dave and the Flesh Eating Maggots (Hodder) was shortlisted for Sheffield Children’s Award.

His recent publications include Courageous Stories of the First World War (Scholastic), Izzy the Invisible (Hot Key), writing as Louise Gray, Independence (War in Ireland 1920) which is Jim’s most recent contribution to Scholastic’s exciting Survivor series, and Coming Home, which was published by Scholastic.

As well as writing for children, Jim has also written for television and radio, details of which can be found here.