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Photography - May 2005	Price: £5
In this edition AQUILA takes a look at photography - from the early days of Victorian portraits, to up-to-date digital techniques. Why not get out your family photo albums, and look at how photography has moved on in the last 150 years! Harvey goes back even further, and takes a look at a camera obscura and how it works. There's one in AQUILA's home town of Eastbourne on the end of the pier. Follow Harvey's instructions and you can make your own! Polly Chrome has some excellent design ideas for photo albums that you can make for your own snaps, and Brainfeeders has some puzzles with a photographic theme. EB investigates Mount St. Helens, a volcano which erupted in Washington state in America 25 years ago. Nature has worked an amazing recovery, and plants and animals are making a comeback. Find out about horseriding with Kit. This is a sport that almost anyone can enjoy. Horses come in all shapes and sizes and they all have different personalities, so you are sure to find one that suits you! Follow Kit's advice and enjoy this wonderful pastime. Enjoy AQUILA's usual puzzles, games, competions and letters.

Shakespeare - April 2005	Price: £5
This month's AQUILA will help you brush up your Shakespeare facts! We are celebrating the birth of Britain's most famous playwright who was born 441 years ago this month. We look at his life and some of his well-known plays. Wordworm's puzzles have a Shakespearean flavour this month and Polly Chrome makes a model theatre where you can perform your own plays! Another famous writer is also celebrated in this edition - Hans Christian Andersen. You can find out more about the creator of Peter Pan, too. This month sees the very first 'In Tune' - AQUILA's new music page. Think about glass and what you can make out of it. Windows, vases, glasses - who would have thought you can make music from it too! EB joins Dr Colin Tourle, who works for IASIS a medical charity, on a visit to the Indians in the Brazilian rainforest. What do you know about FAT? Like it or loathe it we all need some to be healthy. In Science Scene, Harvey investigates, with an experiment using some fat blasters - soap and detergents! Read part one of our new two-part story, The Amazing Billy Chickweed. See your stories and poems in print, plus book reviews, jokes and all the usual AQUILA fun!

Engineering - March 2005	Price: £5
Engineering is really fascinating! So don't be put off by our subject this month, you will be surprised. You will see how human beings have used the materials around them and, with amazing ingenuity, have built incredible structures that don't fall down! Think of all the suspension bridges, domes, viaducts and skyscrapers - have you ever wondered how they were built? Get some hands-on experience, no concrete or steel girders required, just jelly beans and coctail sticks! This issue will tell you a bit more about General Elections, and there are some new pictures and information about Saturn's moon, Titan. Visit pupils at a school in Sri Lanka, build your brainpower with this month's puzzles and quizzes and make a super present for your mum!