Another school year ended and we were on the road for WEEKS! The summer term saw us kicking off with a visit to North Wales where we are Patron of Reading at two schools. We had a great time at: Ysgol Melyd, Meliden, Denbighshire Cystennin Junior School in Mochdre, Colwyn Bay.   Students at Ysgol Melyd made masks of us […]

Crime Team has gone Turkish! We are really pleased that all four titles in the series have been published in Turkish. We seem to be having quite a few of our books published in Turkish. It’s Turkish Delight-ful!

Return to the Lost World has just been published in Italy by Piemme. We think it looks fantastic – there are some brilliant illustrations – the UK version was picture free! We think it really adds to the story. Thank you Italy!

Scholastic Canada have taken a couple of the iHero titles and translated them into French. Code Mission and Dragon Slayer are published as Mission: Espion and Le Chasseur de Dragons. Tres Bien!

We recently headed out West to visit St Paul’s School in Sao Paulo. We had already visited the school in 2005 and 2007, so it was great to meet up with old friends. We saw prep and pre-prep students throughout the week. We performed our iHero and Action Dogs show and led some writing and drama workshops.       […]

We’ve had an incredibly busy 3 months, both writing and touring. So what have we been up to? Most of January was spent in Wales. We kicked off in Aberystwyth at Ysgol Llwyn yr Eos where the students produced a brilliant picture of a Thingumybob. We then headed up to Ysgol Glancegin Maesgeirchen, Bangor and Ysgol Hendre, Caernarfon before having […]

  Read Steve Barlow’s letter to Joe Anderson the Mayor of Liverpool about the proposed library closures in Liverpool. We’re still waiting for a reply!   Dear Joe Anderson I hear with dismay that Liverpool plans to close more than half its libraries. My own Council, Somerset, had a similar idea. On 16th November 2011, its plans were deemed unlawful […]

We were really pleased to receive copies of the Turkish editions of the Action Dogs series. They look great – so if you are a 2 Steves fan and speak Turkish, what are you waiting for – get out and order your copies!

We’ve teamed up with Julia Donaldson (author of The Gruffalo) and Bug Club to write three plays in a brand new series of short plays to read for younger pupils. My Dog’s Got No Nose! At the Vet’s Snow White – The Hex Factor are all laugh out loud funny! They have parts for 6 characters and are written with […]

‘Blog Chain’- This is the next BIG thing apparently! We authors pass on our thoughts and news about what we’re up to. We’d not heard of it (except when people say to us “don’t forget to pull the blog chain”) but it sounds interesting. We were asked to get involved by Chris D’Lacey, author of the brilliant Last Dragon Chronicles […]