Chae Strathie

Chae Strathie is an award-winning children’s author and magazine editor who grew up in a tiny village surrounded by a forest in Scotland, which probably explains a lot.

His first attempt at professional writing was creating a Star Wars comic at the age of seven. He sold two copies and made a total of four pence.

A regular at major book festivals, Chae has toured the length and breadth of the UK and visited schools as far afield as Romania, reading his stories, acting the goat and singing silly songs about worm ice cream, Hercules and beard-growing.