Nancy McArthur is an American children's author. Living in Berea, Ohio, she is a part-time journalism professor at Baldwin-Wallace College. She has written fourteen books, nine of which form a series called, The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks. The series follows the lives of two young brothers, Michael and Norman, along with their sentient pet plants, Stanley and Fluffy.
Works
- Megan Gets a Dollhouse (1988)
- Pickled Peppers (1988)
- The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks (1988)
- The Adventure of the Buried Treasure (1990)
- The Adventure of the Backyard Sleepout (1992)
- The Escape Of The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks (1992)
- The Secret Of The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks (1993)
- More Adventures Of The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks (1994)
- The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks Goes Up In Space (1995)
- The Mystery Of The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks (1996)
- The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks Gets A Girlfriend (1997)
- The Adventure of the Big Snow (1998)
- The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks Goes Hollywood (1999)


