When killer cats are clawing for world domination, it's time to unleash the Action Dogs... The world is in deadly danger and only one team of heroes can save it... Six daredevil dogs who fight crime with their bare paws and their high-tech gadgets!
A brand new series from award-winning duo The 2 Steves with free game cards in every book. You'd be barking mad to miss it!
Spike's on the look out for an indispensible new
Action Dogs gadget. Send your design along with a title and brief description to woof@actiondogsonline.com by
1st December 2012 and it could be featured on a limited edition Action Dogs game card - available to download from the website! Get some inspiration from Martin Chatterton's original sketches here.
Steve Barlow is tall and hairy, Steve Skidmore isn't! Together they are one of Britain's most popular comedy writing and performing double acts for young people. Steve Barlow lives in Somerset with his wife Cathy. When he's not writing, he enjoys sailing. Steve Skidmore lives in Leicester. He is a great rugby fan (he supports Leicester Tigers). The 2 Steves met over twenty years ago when they were both teaching in Nottingham. Since then they have written over 150 books together, including the action-packed Luke Challenger series for Usborne. They also travel the world performing at festivals and in schools where their shows are described as "Hilarious... brilliant... and mad!"
Martin Chatterton was born and raised in Liverpool, England in the 1960's. He gained his degree in London in the eighties before embarking on an internationally successful career as an illustrator, graphic designer, commercials director and children's author. He has written thirty books and illustrated over a hundred! His books have been published in more than a dozen languages and have won or been shortlisted for numerous awards in the UK, US and Australia. After time spent as Creative Director with the design company he co-founded, Martin moved between the US and UK for five years before emigrating to Australia in 2004. He lives in Lennox Head in northern New South Wales and is married with two almost grown up children.
Book 1: Ocean of Peril
9781409520191
£4.99 Paperback
When Benji discovers the secret headquarters of the Action Dogs, he
jumps at the chance to join the team.
But the crime-busting canines are out of their depth when arch-enemy Katmanchew sabotages an ocean liner. Will Benji's
first mission sink or swim?
Great balls of fire! When the city museum goes up in flames, kitty crime lord Katmanchew plans to get his claws on the world-famous Bona Lisa painting. But he might have bitten off more than he can chew. The Action Dogs are no slow-witted strays - they're hot and they're on his tail!
Book 2: The Howling Inferno
9781409520320
£4.99 Paperback
Book 3: Danger on the Ice
9781409520337
£4.99 Paperback
The heat is on. Evil kitty crime lord Katmanchew has unleashed his most diabolical weapon yet...and Antarctica is in meltdown. The fearless Action Dogs wade in to stop him, but when three of the canine crusaders are captured it looks like their mission will be put purrmanently on ice...
Mayday! Mayday! A laser strike has knocked a space station out of orbit and onto a collision course with the Earthview hotel. While the Action Dogs have their paws full attempting an impossible rescue mission, their arch-enemy Katmanchew plans to defeat the magnificent mutts once and for all...
Book 4: Terror in Space
9781409520344
£4.99 Paperback
