Sam Watkins

Sam Watkins is a British author of humorous children's fiction, born in Rustington, West Sussex. She is best known for the Creature Teacher series, a comic school-set adventure about a class whose teacher is secretly a shapeshifting monster, told across books including Creature Teacher, Creature Teacher Goes Wild, Creature Teacher Out to Win, and Creature Teacher Science Shocker. Watkins's fiction blends slapstick humor, monster-movie tropes, and school-story conventions aimed at younger middle-grade readers, with the series' repeating formula -- an ordinary school term disrupted by the teacher's monstrous secret -- making it a recurring favorite for readers drawn to comedy over frightening horror.