October and November were busy, busy, busy! We’ve been half way across the world and back! We started our travels in Blaneau Gwent before heading off to the Cheltenham Literary Festival. Then it was off to the Children’s Book Festival in Meath in Ireland for a couple of fun filled days! We even got to visit Tara – the magical […]

Steve S was visiting Venice when he stumbled across this amazing bookshop. It is a hotch-potch of books, magazines, cards and pictures.             It has a door leading out to one of the canals and even a gondola inside the shop, piled high with books. It even has a flight of stairs made of books! […]

We authors do like to get together and have a chat! We recently attended the CWIG conference (That’s short for the Society of Author’s Childrens Writers and Illustrators’ Group!).       Steve S with Charlie Higson, author of Young Bond and star of the Fast Show.     We met up with some of our mates and listened to […]

Hope your summer was good (or winter if you’re reading this in the southern hemisphere!). We went to the Olympics – Steve B was in the Olympic Stadium when Team GB won 3 athletic gold medals in an evening – lucky thing! (Steve B, not the athletes!). Then we flew out to Jersey for a wonderful day at their brilliant […]

Steve Barlow presented the following to a meeting discussing the future of Somerset libraries. We think you’ll find some interesting points!   The Case for Public Libraries in Promoting Children’s Reading Friends of Somerset Libraries and The Campaign for the Book August 2012   One of the arguments that has been advanced as to why libraries are no longer as […]

Hello and welcome to our brand new website! We hope you enjoy looking around it. It has been created by Hilton Creativity and we think it looks fab! We are going to be posting a lot more news about where we are going to be visiting and what we have been doing. We will also let you know about all […]

  Once again, we are going to be appearing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in August. We LOVE this festival – the city, the people, the atmosphere! It all adds up to a fantastic event. You can catch us at Charlotte Square Sunday 19 August 2:00pm – 3:00pm   We will be performing our Action Dogs show – it […]

Over the past nine months, we’ve been travelling all over the world speaking to students and teachers at festivals, conferences, schools and libraries. We started our overseas travels in Singapore, before heading off to a conference in Malaysia and schools in Kuala Lumpur. We then headed off to Oman for a fab ten days in schools. We LOVED the country. […]

    Who let the dogs out? We did! We’ve recently hit the road with the Action Dogs tour! We started off at the Hay festival, then headed off to Reading, Oxted, Ipswich and Halifax. And what was the reaction from teachers and kids?   “Great.” “Incredible! You two are sooooo funny.” “Brilliant, haven’t laughed so much in ages!” “We […]