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Steve Cole
Steve Cole was our Guest Editor in November 2011. Click here to find out more and see some of his favourite books.
Steve Cole is the slightly crazy, highly frantic, millions-selling, non-stop author of Astrosaurs, Cows In Action, Astrosaurs Academy, The Slime Squad, Z. Rex and many other books (including several original Doctor Who stories). He used to edit magazines and books but prefers the job of a writer where you can wear pyjamas and eat chocolate all day.
Steve just can't stop writing - if he does, strange robots appear and jostle him vigorously until he starts again. In his spare time he loves making music, reading old comics, thinking up ideas for new books and slumping in front of a warm TV.
In this video, Steve counts down his top 5 favourite Astrosaurs characters:
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Amanda Craig from The Times recently described the Astrosaurs series as "the kind of inspired, hysterically silly fantasy that boys adore." Here’s a summary of Steve’s four main series – great reading for boys in particular:
ASTROSAURS - Captain Teggs is no ordinary dinosaur - he's an astrosaur! On the incredible spaceship DSS Sauropod, along with his faithful crew, Gypsy, Arx and Iggy, Teggs rights wrongs, fights evil... and eats a lot of grass.
ASTROSAURS ACADEMY - Welcome to the Academy! Teggs Stegosaur is a pupil at the Astrosaurs Academy where all astro-cadets go to complete their training. He hopes to become an ASTROSAUR one day but for now he has classes to attend, missions to complete and lessons to learn. His best friends and roommates, Blink and Dutch, are always his first choice for fun - but also to work with on his homework! Together they make a great team - the Daring Dinos - and get up to all sorts of adventures!
COWS IN ACTION - Moo-vellous ! Professor McMoo is a very clever cow - so clever, in fact, that he has managed to build himself a time machine from discarded farming machinery. He and his two cow friends, Pat and Bo Vine live on the Barmer farm, in fear of the hideous farmer's wife, Betty. But they are also star agents of the C.I.A. - Cows in Action, a crack team of cow commandos! In the future, cows live peacefully with humans as equals, not as food. But some cows in the future try to use the technology of time travel to interfere with history - which the Professor and his team must stop!
SLIME SQUAD - It's time to fight crime... with slime! Mad scientist Godfrey Gunk had a dream - a dream of creating a whole safari park of monsters on an old rubbish dump. It didn't work. Little did Godfrey know that actually after he left the rubbish dump, his dream came true... Meet the inhabitants of Trashland, a whole world full of different types of small slimy monsters who all live peacefully alongside each other - at least until now...
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Astrosaurs Series - No. 20. The Dinosaurs with a difference are back for a super space adventure in this extra long, bumper story and the 20th Astrosaurs title. Captain Teggs Stegosaur must lead his team against his arch enemy General...
Featured in: 7+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/09/2011
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Deliciously slimy, the crime-busting Slime Squad are back for a new adventure. Plog, Flup, Zill and Danjo must pit their wits and use all their courage against the dangerous new monster who is threatening to take over Trashland. Can they...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Astrosaurs Series - No. 19. Captain Teggs Stegosaur and his team are back for a thrilling new Astrosaurs adventure as they take on a dangerous new challenge. Something is killing crops and making dinosaurs disappear. Captain Teggs and his team...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2011
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This is the final exciting adventure in Steve Cole's hit spin-off series, Astrosaurs Academy. After years of training they've finally done it! Teggs and his classmates at Astrosaurs Academy are all set to become real space-exploring astrosaurs! But first they...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2011
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Astrosaurs Series - No. 18. This series goes from strength to strength. This is the 18th title and it comes complete with free collector cards for kids to play with and to swap with friends. Captain Teggs is no ordinary...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/2011
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Perfect fodder for boys in particular and if you have a reluctant reader then the Slime Squad is great too. Slimy all action adventure fills the pages as a scientific dream gone wrong results in an old rubbish tip becoming...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/01/2011
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Astrosaurs Series - No. 11. The astrosaurs are on their way home for Christmas when they encounter millions of Christmas presents flying through space. Teggs and his crew are ordered to take the presents back to Santa Claus and his...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/09/2010
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Mad scientist Godfrey Gunk had a dream - a dream of creating a whole safari park of monsters on an old rubbish dump. It didn't work. Little did Godfrey know that actually after he left the rubbish dump, his dream came true ...Meet...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/08/2010
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Astrosaurs Series - No. 17. Captain Teggs is no ordinary dinosaur - he's an astrosaur. On the incredible spaceship DSS Sauropod, along with his faithful crew, Gypsy, Arx and Iggy, Teggs rights wrongs, fights evil and eats a lot of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 29/04/2010
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Astrosaurs Series - No. 10. When several spaceships go missing, the astrosaurs investigate - and are attacked by terrifying Star Pirates! The greedy ship-looters have a plan that will wreck the galaxy. Can Teggs stop them in time?
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Format: Paperback - Released: 29/04/2010
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Astrosaurs Series - No. 16. Captain Teggs is no ordinary dinosaur - he's an astrosaur! On the incredible spaceship DSS Sauropod, along with his faithful crew, Gypsy, Arx and Iggy, Teggs rights wrongs, fights evil and eats a lot of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/01/2010
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Astrosaurs Series - No. 15. Captain Teggs is no ordinary dinosaur - he's an astrosaur! Teggs has a nightmare about sabre-toothed bananas and can't believe it when he's actually attacked by them in the middle of a mission. Strange things...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2009
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Astrosaurs Series - No. 14. Captain Teggs is no ordinary dinosaur - he's an astrosaur! On the incredible spaceship DSS Sauropod, along with his faithful crew, Gypsy, Arx and Iggy, Teggs rights wrongs, fights evil and eats a lot of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2009
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Astrosaurs Series - No. 13. To save his schoolfriends Teggs must turn against the DSS and deliver top astrosaur secrets into enemy claws...But When Admiral Rosso finds out, Arx, Iggy and Gipsy are ordered to stop him by any means...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/08/2008
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Astrosaurs Series - No. 12. The astrosaurs are on a mission to help the planet of the woolly rhinos, where one of their three suns has gone missing. What on earth could have swallowed up such a huge ball of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/02/2008
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Astrosaurs Series - No. 9. A fantastically thrilling and funny addition to the Astrosaurs series where wrongs are put right, where good fights evil and where peace overcomes war. Perfect both for the keen reader but also the reluctant one...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2007
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Astrosaurs Series - No. 7. Astrosaurs are a really collectable series offering dramatic space travel stories peopled with dinosaur characters. Teggs is captain of the amazing spaceship DSS Sauropod. With his dinosaur crew, he travels through space fighting evil and...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 01/06/2006
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Freekham high is a school where things rarely go according to plan. Sara and Sam are putting on a school play to celebrate the end of term. Not much could go wrong with that, you might think. But when a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/03/2006
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Whether you’re a reluctant reader or an avid one this brilliant series with four titles out so far – Ouch, Thumb¸ Sock and now Pigeon – is set in a school where weird things happen each and every day. They...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/11/2005
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Whether you’re a reluctant reader or an avid one this brilliant series with four titles out so far – Ouch, Thumb¸ Sock and now Pigeon – is set in a school where weird things happen each and every day. They...
Featured in: 9+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2005
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Whether you’re a reluctant reader or an avid one this brilliant series with four titles out so far – Ouch, Thumb¸ Sock and now Pigeon – is set in a school where weird things happen each and every day. They...
Featured in: 9+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2005
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Astrosaurs Series - No 6. Mysterious spectres keep appearing and scaring mining workers off. Are they the ghosts of a team of miners who disappeared fifty years ago? Teggs and his crew begin to investigate but then strange things begin...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/01/2010
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Astrosaurs Series - No. 1. In this first adventure, the herbivore astrosaurs have to face a fearsome enemy - a band of greedy carnivorous raptors who have kidnapped two athlete dinosaurs from under Tegg's nose. Can the Captain save the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/01/2010
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Astrosaurs Series - No. 8. The island Teggs and crew are sent to is sinking - and waste from the bactrosaurs is invading the megalodon world. Teggs are his crew are suspicious of a newly arrived race, the terror birds....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 09/01/2010
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Astrosaurs Series - No 5. Disaster has struck Squawk Major, the pterosaur planet. It's people have forgotten how to fly ...all except a sinister stranger named Grandum who now plans to rule the world. Can Teggs and the team stop...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/01/2010
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Astrosaurs Series - No. 4. Master criminals have a body-swap machine - and they use it on the Astrosaurs! Can Gipsy and Arx save their Captain before it's too late? Steve Cole is also the author of a number of other...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/01/2010
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Astrosaurs Series - No 3. Teggs and Gipsy end up in the company of a rather strange creature with amnesia at the bottom of the sea...Will they manage to find their way back to the surface? Steve Cole is also the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/01/2010
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Astrosaurs Series - No. 2. The astrosaurs' mission is under threat from some rather greedy oviraptors - egg-eating dinosaurs! When they arrive at their destination they find that the planet is not quite what they were expecting - it's much...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/01/2010
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