'It had all happened so quickly. Both dogs gone. Nothing left of the men but a trail of green foot-prints up and over the stone bridge.'

Meet the Powers: the not-so-super superheroes. Despite their amazing talents, the Powers are not very good at controlling them ...

A perfectly prodigious tale of superpugly cunning and bravery!

When Pucker Power and the charming French poodle Penelope Parfait get dognapped, the Parfait family from Paris and the Power family from Castlerock are panic-stricken. But what nobody knows is that Pucker has a secret pugly superpower. (No, we can't tell you – you have to read the book!)

Pucker Power, the superpowered superpug, plans a superpowered rescue of his beloved Penelope and all their doggy fellow-prisoners. Chaos ensues.

Kevin Stevens has written grown-up books about bank robbers and jazz musicians but he also likes to write books for kids and teens. He helped the superheroes at Little Island create the Nightmare Club books for younger children and then went on to write his own books for children: The Powers and its companion book Pucker Power. Pucker is his favourite character, even though he weed on Kevin’s leg once, thinking it was a lamp-post. His first book for teenagers was This Ain’t No Video Game, Kid!, followed by A Lonely Note, winner of an IBBY Honour Award. Both published by Little Island, of course.

About the Illustrator

Sheena Dempsey is an author and illustrator from Cork. She has written and illustrated her own children's books as well as illustrating children's books for other authors, including The Powers and Pucker Power by Kevin Stevens for Little Island. She lives in London with her partner, Mick, and a wilful ex-racing greyhound named Sandy.