March 2012 - Grow your own
Win Ready, Steady, Grow! book / Tutti-Frutti 5-a-day - why fruit and vegetables are important scurvy vitamin C potassium antioxidants free radicals guinea pigs banana smoothie / Flirtatious flowers gametes pollen nectary stamens anthers filaments carpel stigma ovary seeds hermaphrodite / Make dalek kitchen compost bin / How to grow your own tomatoes beans peas fruit flowers / Pepe considers chickens - how to choose house feed - protection egg-laying sickness / Just think about the colour blue synesthesia / Aquila peers at Titanic April 1912 White Star Cunard Harland & Wolff 1,517 drowned / Case of the Kidnapped Cat story part 2 by Angela Shepherd / Who told you that brown eggs are better for you than white?

February 2012 - Great apes
Win Arrietty DVDs / Computer games and your amazing brain - empathy mirror neurons / Orang pendek - Sumatra Richard Freeman Centre for Fortean Zoology Abominable Snowman gigantopithecus Pongo - new animals discovered bosvai arakan 2-metre fruit-eating monitor lizard sneezing snub-nosed monkey / Make a cheeky chimp mask / Great apes gorillas chimpanzees orangutans humans bonobos tail-less primates list of similarities between great apes and humans / Teeth - dental check-up cleaning / Win Real Reads Dickens books / Life of Charles Dickens Portsmouth Chatham Catherine Hogarth / Case of the Kidnapped Cat story part one by Angela Shepherd / Who told you that Inuit people have 100 words for snow?

January 2012 - The London Olympics
Win DK Children’s Book of Sport / Science of energy - muscles ATP ADP creatine phosphate glycolysis glycogen glucose lactic acid oxygen debt aerobic respiration fat hitting the wall / Make Olympic rings picture frame / Olympic Torch - 8,000 carriers 70-day relay 18th May to 27th July - Temple of Hera Olympia Panathenaiko Athens - torch designs - Austerity Games 1948 - Edward Barber Jay Osgerby designers 2012 - cauldron / How was London chosen? Host bids - venues Stratford NE London Olympic Village Zones / London 1948 Empire Stadium Wembley King George VI accommodation Emil Zatopek Fanny Blankers-Koen Flying Housewife Maureen Gardner / Wordworm's Olympic crossword / Hallsands story by Caroline Butterwick / Paws for thought - Colchester Zoo cheetahs / Who told you that Cinderella wore glass slippers?

December 2011 - Christmas Past and Present
Win Smencils / Could you survive unplugged? Gerodimos Bournemouth University - life without laptops mobiles ipods dvds / Report on the ATE superweek 2011 / Think about The Happiness Machine / Win AudioGO Vintage BBC Pantomime CDs / Aquila peers at first Christmas cards - scraps Henry Cole John Calcott Horsley / Make Christmas garland / Topic William I Richard II Puritans Charles II Victorian Christmas First World War First royal Christmas message BBC George V / The Missing Piece story by Jacqueline Banerjee / Paws for thought - Penguins at Drusillas Zoo

November 2011 - The Moon
Win Meccano Multi-Model set / Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year / Last man on the moon Apollo 11 Apollo 17 Luna 2 maria Late Heavy Bombardment Apollo 8 Neil Armstrong LRV Lunar Roving Vehicle Moon Buggy Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter LRO two moons? / Make bubble-powered rocket / Moon myths worldwide - Ancient Greek moon myths - phases gravity tides / Lunar Society of Birmingham - famous members Erasmus Darwin Joseph Priestley Josiah Wedgwood James Watt Matthew Boulton - Dissenters - French Revolution Bastille / New B Watch It story by Maureen Robson / Timekeeping and calendars - lunar month solar year 30 days hath September leap years / Wordgames Last and First - Teacup - Who am I? - I went into town / Win Horrible History theatre tickets

October 2011 - Parasites
Win Practical Joke Soap / Aquila peers at the Jarrow Crusade march - unemployment Palmers shipyard Ellen Wilkinson MP Red Ellen Paddy labrador Stanley Baldwin / Make zombie bug mobile / Viruses - filterable viruses virion outer shell protein inner core dna/rna - virus infection cycle diagram - bacteriophage cell lysis - poliomyelitis rabies foot and mouth disease influenza smallpox - Edward Jenner 1796 cowpox Louis Pasteur 1885 - plant viruses fossil viruses computer viruses Elk Cloner 1981 / Lice nits roundworm tapeworm fleas mosquitoes mites ticks bed bugs - cleaner wrasse kangaroos / Failure start of something big - Woody Allen Beethoven Alexander Graham Bell Gabrielle Coco Chanel Winston Churchill Daniel Defoe Walt Disney Clint Eastwood Albert Einstein Henry Ford J K Rowling Laurence Olivier / Jasper the Lazy Ghost story by Andrew Griffiths / Paws for thought - wildlife in autumn - insects bonfires hedgehogs fireworks birds deer bats seals

September 2011 - Greek myths and legends
Win All New Compendium of Cardmaking Techniques book / Meet author Rick Riordan / Win complete set of Rick Riordan books / Maths factorials - written with ! multiply by all numbers less than it, so 5! = 5x4x3x2x1 = 120 / Archimedes density mass levers Archimedes screw Antikythera mechanism for astronomical calculations - Democritus atomic theory - scientific words derived from Greek / Greek heroes gods monsters - Iliad Argonautica Odyssey Cyclops Medusa Odysseus Trojan war Homer Persephone Demeter Hades Arachne Narcissus / Make Trojan Horse secrets box / Wordworm's Greek nouns / Think about why murder is wrong / Pandora's Box story by Elizabeth Knight

July/August 2011 - Cats and Dogs/Robin Hood
Aquila peers at Berlin Wall / Why you should not drink seawater - desalination experiment / Pinhole camera - how to make / Astra - life in universe 50 years of SETI Frank Drake exoplanets / Time’s Wing’d Chariot story by Anthony Gillam / Think about the willing breakfast - Natural Law Theorists / Win A Year Without Autumn by Liz Kessler / Working dogs - assistance rescue police sniffer sheep Maremma Tatra Pyrenees - Italian helicopter dogs Ferruccio Pilenga Newfoundland Golden Retriever - reading dogs BARKS Mary Ellen Schneider / Caring for pets in summer / Make pet mats / Domestic dogs Grey wolf breeding - domestic cats African wildcat controlling rats black plague flea / Robin Hood and his merry men - Little John Maid Marian Friar Tuck Will Scarlett Sherwood Forest / Aquila peers at King Richard I and Prince John - Lionheart crusades Lackland Softsword Pipe Rolls / Make Robin Hood finger puppets / Archery fletchings William Tell Ancient Scorton Arrow - Plantagenet Society / Harry and the Missing Kipper story by Jackie Banerjee / Win Bracelet of Bones by Kevin Crossley-Holland / Win Wildlife Trusts New Holland Field Guides

June 2011 - Modern Art
Win Tate Art in a Box activity cards set / Art is good for you - expressing feelings healing / Make pop art picture / Paint and pigments - cochineal indigo bone ivory alizarin madder sepia lapis lazuli orpiment arsenic trisulphide As2S3 lead chromate carbonate titanium dioxide - acrylic emulsion of polymethylmethacrylate in water - colour experiment to unmix paint / Topic impressionism fauves cubism surrealism abstract Picasso - visit a gallery / Fractals Mandelbrot Julia set Seirpinski triangle / Crazy Ball - fast fun training for other sports / Cave of Whispers story by Greg Acheson / Paws for thought - Rodents + tips on guinea pigs / Win Take Me Home book

May 2011 - The River Nile
Win A Time Traveller’s Field Notes and Observations of Ancient Egypt book / Flintoff Academy cricket / Seeds - an ideal food - rice maize wheat - wheat in Egypt Ramesses III / Make papyrus from brown paper / Topic White Nile  Lake Victoria Uganda - Blue Nile Lake Tana Ethiopia - animals hippos crocodiles birds - floods Pharaohs pyramids dams / The number Pi - known by Egyptians 225BC - Archimedes area of circle - pendulums magnets planets length of Nile / Win Khet laser strategy board game / Think about lifeboat dilemma - kill one to save others? Mignonette Capt Thomas Dudley - Stephens Brooks Parker - Kantians Utilitarians / Info on AQUILA ATE eco-venture Superweek 11-18 Aug 2011 / Jamala’s Lion story by J. D. Chaney

April 2011 - Gold
Win RSPB nest box and fluffy birds / Meet Professor Robert Winston / Win Science Experiments book / Make Aztec wall hanging / Panning Californian gold rush 1849 forty-niners - pure gold 24 carat hallmarks Archimedes Principle - chemistry unreactive metal alchemy / Gold cultural symbols gold leaf Au E175 - Golden Fleece Mali Emperor Mansa Musa / Aquila peers at gold rush Skookum Jim Rabbit Creek Klondike prospectors Yukon animals Hanover Zoo / Sputnik Laika 1961 Yuri Gagarin 89-minute orbit Vostok Alan Shepard John Glenn / The Ishtar Gate story by Austin Hackney / Paws for thought - guinea pigs

March 2011 - Japan
Win First 1000 Words in Japanese book / Eden Project - biomes - Win family tickets / Dolls festival Hina-Matsuri - Sun goddess Amaterasu Golden Week carp streamers Children's Day - counting to 12 in Japanese / Make kirigami paper cutting / AQUILA readers in Japan - hiragana alphabet kanji characters / Life in elementary school - timetable menu cleaning extra-curricular earthquake drill - Japanese school London / Aquila peers at Samurai weapons training code of conduct - Miyamoto Musashi - Tomoe Gozen / Secret of a Foggy Canal story by Pauline Hill

February 2011 - Record Breakers
Win History Heroes card game / Red Nose Day (18 March 2011) Comic Relief Uganda War Child fundraising ideas / Cryptozoology Loch Ness Monster Bigfoot El Chupacabra Beast of Gevaudan 1764 Pongo / Make sand pictures / Guinness Book of Records Sir Hugh Beaver 1954 Chris Chataway Ross Norris McWhirter Lego mosaic / Longest in the world - hair cucumber bubblechain snake in captivity conga on ice rideable surfboard beard apple peel sofa hotdog sci-fi tv show paint by numbers spinning basketball on nose reef / Win Animal Records book from NHM / Story Carla and the Cuddlecrunchie part 2 by Elizabeth Kay / Paws for thought introducing Pepe - puppies

December 2010/January 2011 - Choirs and singing/Winter wildlife
AQUILA Christmas Fun trivia quiz / Topic choirs & singing - harmony choral chant - how voices work conductor choirs Pope Gregory Benedict Biscop / What is sound? Speed of sound Mach 1 Ernest Mach sound waves shock wave middle C frequency Hertz recording vinyl CD compression mp3 MIDI sequencing / Meet author Lauren St John / Win The White Giraffe series + Deadman's Cove books / What is respect? - consideration care rules / Win Daler Rowney Graduate Acrylic Table Easel Set / Just think about where right and wrong come from - God Plato Socrates Euthyphro relativism / Story Jade's Dream part 2 by Kay Woods / Wordworm's Christmas wildlife crossword and wordsearch / Topic winter garden wildlife - bonfires logpiles ponds amphibians mammals invertebrates birds / Make Christmas choristers / Make gift bags and tags - animal silhouettes - download font / Watching winter wildlife - birds mammals invertebrates - links to wildlife wildfowl organizations / Review of ATE AQUILA Superweek 2010 / Win What on Earth Wallbook + reader offer / Make Christmas treats - biscuits xmas pud cakes / Win Justin Thyme book / Story Carla and the Cuddlecrunchie part 1 by Elizabeth Kay

November 2010 - Wind and storms
Win 4 family tickets to Horrible Histories show / Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year / Measuring weather - met office pressure Newtons bar millibars isobars barometer aneroid barograph thermometers - frost fairs on Thames - anemometer rain gauge humidity Stevenson Screen helium balloons weather satellites geostationary / Make anemometer / Wind speed Sir Francis Beaufort Hurricane Katrina Great Hurricane 1780 Bhola Cyclone Great Storm 1987 Jet streams / How to beat bad news / Win Book of Bones by Natasha Narayan / Just think - will the sun rise tomorrow? David Hume empiricist / Jade's Dream story part 1 by Kay Woods

October 2010 - Spiders
Win set of Alex Rider books by Anthony Horowitz / Spiders in space - orb weaver spider living in space experiment by Aurora Hills Middle School Colorado / Spider that saved Scotland - Robert the Bruce Edward I Hammer of the Scots John Red Comyn John Balliol William Wallace Methven Bannockburn / Make bouncing spiders / Spider fossils Greek Princess Arachne West African and Caribbean Anansi Egyptian Neith - eight eyes blue blood / Jewel of Muscat 9th-century trading ship Indonesia - reconstructed sailed Oman to Singapore - shipworms kamal string Experiential Maritime Museum Sentosa Resort World / Haunted Rock story by Austin Hackney / Fun with shapes - topology London Underground map Mobius strip / Win Stargazers' Almanac 2011

September 2010 - Cavaliers and Roundheads
Win Royal Mail Smilers personalised stamp sets / Battle re-enactment The Sealed Knot / Make Cavalier and Roundhead hats / Weapons and armour of the English Civil War - archers steel body armour musket matchlock flintlock pikemen bayonet rifle rifling breech-loading Kevlar / Civil War 1642 - 1651 Charles I Charles II Divine Right Queen Henrietta Maria Prince Rupert Edgehill Boye poodle Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector / Equality / School Clown story part 2 by Sophia Foreman / Win What Goes On In My Head book

July/August 2010 - Seals and sea lions/Survival skills
Farne Islands Scilly Lundy Pembroke Chanonry Point Moray Firth bottlenose dolphins Orkneys Donna Nook Lincolnshire Blakeney Point Norfolk - sanctuaries National Seal Sanctuary Helston Cornwall Mablethorpe Pier 39 San Francisco - seal sea lion different ears flippers / Stranded seals New Jersey / Walrus manatees sirens baby seal in Kent garden / Make jewellery dinosaur tooth necklace - shell pendant / Meet author Michelle Paver / Win Chronicles of Ancient Darkness book set / Black Agnes story by Rosemary Francis / How to win noughts and crosses - game theory optimal strategy / Survival skills board game / Surviving the cold - frostbite hypothermia insulation hollow hair hi-tech clothing blubber / Make semaphore flags / Win Hexjibber colouring and activity book / Florence Nightingale angel of Crimea Lady with the Lamp Mary Seacole / Exmoor Ponies characteristics Domesday Book South Downs / Win Schleich pony models / Meet entomologist Dr George Beccaloni curator of orthopteroid insects at Natural History Museum / Win Big Bugs book / School Clown story part 1 by Sophia Foreman

June 2010 - Italy
Win Altair Design colouring pad / Football in Italy - Azzurri golden shoe / Italian scientists - Galileo acceleration due to gravity water clock Cassini distance between Earth and Mars Galvani effect of electricity on nerves and muscles galvanisation Volta battery unit of electrical potential volt Fermi nuclear pile fermions Fermilab top quark discovered 1995 / Make ice cream gelato / AQUILA readers in Italy - food hobbies school etc / Remember Me story by Frances Clamp / Parliamo italiano - let’s talk Italian / Win Italian for Beginners book / History of tennis - Egyptian tomb carvings royal or real tennis origin of name vulcanized rubber ball

May 2010 - Science fiction
100 years of Girl Guides - contribution to First World War effort Agnes Baden-Powell Rosebuds Olave B-P Thinking Day Girlguiding UK / Space travel - Jules Verne From The Earth To The Moon H. G. Wells First Men In The Moon Proxima Centauri 4 light years away aliens Star Trek SciFi comedy / Meet author Keith Mansfield - Win Star Blaze book / Time travel Robota drudgery robots biology miniaturisation / Learn to draw a Mars robot - Win Draw Sci Fi book plus DalerRowney Sketchbook and Pastel Pencil tin / Just think about the Mona Lisa - is beauty subjective or objective? Aesthetics Immanuel Kant Critique of Judgement / The Dreamsavers story part 2 by Fiona Veitch Smith

April 2010 - Mosaic
Win A Necklace of Raindrops book / Emotional intelligence - positive thinking positive affirmations - self-esteem - limiting beliefs - building confidence - relaxation meditation / Wall and rock climbing - belaying bouldering figure-of-eight knot smearing matching bridging / Fishbourne Roman Palace - hypocaust cupid and dolphin mosaic Cogidubnus leader of Atrebates Vespasian / Mosaic topic - Mesopotamia 1500BC Romans Carthage Tunisia tesserae Villa Romana del Casale Sicily - digital mosaic / Make eggshell mosaic easter card / Meet the author Nick Arnold / Win tickets to Horrible Science show / Cut cake fairly / The Dreamsavers story part 1 by Fiona Veitch Smith / AQUILA ATE Superweek Adventure in August 2010

March 2010 - Dinosaurs
Win Know You Know About fun DVDs / Marine monsters - Predator X pliosaur Kronosaurus Liopleurodon Ichthyosaurs Plesiosaurs Mauisaurus Polycotylidae Trinacromerum Mosasaurs aigalosaurs Hesperornis Tylosaurus Hainosaurus Mesosaurs - mosasaur fossil Maastricht 1780 - Mary Anning / Dinosaur hunt - dinosaur skin dung coprolite footprints - museums websites clubs for enthusiasts Geological Society - Rockwatch / Make a dinosaur shoebox diorama Louis Daguerre 1822 / Dinosaur topic - 1824 William Buckland Megalosaurus 1825 Dr Gideon Mantell Iguanadon 1833 Hylaeosaurus 1842 Sir Richard Owen invented name 'dinosaurs' - Othniel Charles Marsh Edward Drinker Cope 'bone wars' Allosaurus Triceratops 1923 George Olsen first complete eggs and nests in Gobi Desert - 2006 Morocco skull fragments Spinosaurus 2009 China Darwinopterus -  Pterosaurs - supercontinent Pangaea / Frederic Chopin 1810-1849 Polonaise in G minor - The Revolutionary - Fantaisie Impromptu - The Raindrop - The Minute Waltz / Curse of the Cairo Cat story part 3 by Dan Metcalf / Surf-it dinosaur websites / Win Natural History Museum Dinosaurs book

February 2010 - The Winter Olympics
Win Running Wild book / Star gazing - Stargazers' Almanac special offer / Grizzly bears in Canada - British Columbia hibernation / 10th Winter Paralympics Vancouver - Dr Ludwig Guttmann Stoke Mandeville Hospital Ornskoldsvik Royal Canadian Mint 17 new coins / Make felted woollen mittens / 21st Winter Olympics Vancouver Miga Quatchi Sumi Winter Olympics quiz / Winter sports - snowboarding skiing / Curse of the Cairo Cat story part 2 by Dan Metcalf / Win digital camera and year's subscription Animal competition

December 2009/January 2010 - Charles Dickens/The Nobel Prize
Win Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2xDVD set / ATE AQUILA Superweek reviewed / Results of Finish the Story - Ben Myers / Make an 'Old Curiosity Shop' storage box / Mudlarks and Guttersnipes - workhouses baby farms industrial schools / Dickens - quiz and life of / Make Christmas wreath and table decoration / Win book Green Fingers and Muddy Boots / Christmas crossword / Win Dolphin wall clock / Offside Rule story by Patsy Collins / Nobel Prize - history - famous winners - laureates / Life of Marie Curie (Sklodowska) - uranium rays Henri Becquerel pitchblende polonium radium / X-rays - Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen radiographs photons / Vaccines and viruses - swine flu pandemic - Asian flu Hong Kong flu - treatments / Rudyard Kipling / The power of books and literature - role models - comfort - other cultures - being aware of dangers / Family trees / Win book Who Am I? Family Tree Explorer / Curse of the Cairo Cat story part 1 by Dan Metcalf

November 2009 - Great Inventions
Win DK Ask Me Anything book / Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year / Michael Faraday - electrolysis benzene liquefying chlorine gas electricity Øersted magnetism electric motors transformers power stations Royal Institution Christmas Lectures for Young People Sandemanian (Church of Scotland) / Make rolling robots from deodorant bottles / Favourite great inventions - telescope Lipperhey Janssen abacus flushing toilet spectacles electricity spiked running shoes screw-capped paints John Rand printing press Gutenburg Biro mouse Engelbart tin can post-it note internet / Charles Darwin On The Origin Of Species 1859 / Story Paper Trail part 2 by Tim Morgan / 18th AQUILA Treasure Hunt part 2 to win a Pirate Treasure Chest / Win COLORS board game / Just Think Friendship

October 2009 - Bats
Win Tickets to see George's Marvellous Medicine / Life of Edgar Allan Poe / Lucky charms around the world - four-leaf clover - rabbit's foot - horseshoe - bats - wishbone - dreamcatcher / Why do we need saliva? - healing - toxic / Bats - horseshoe noctule serotine daubenton long-eared pipistrelle - what to do if you find a bat / Win Caveman boardgame - Matt Hall tells how he invented the game / 18th AQUILA Treasure Hunt part 1 / Win Royal Institution Christmas Lecture tickets / Paper Trail story part 1 by Tim Morgan

September 2009 - The Babylonians
Win Rainbow Maker kit / Cut the carbon quiz - are you an eco-hero or an eco-disaster? / Cuneiform numbers - astrological ephemerides / Make a Babylonian calendar - birthday card - keyring / Babylonian new year - Marduk Esagila Processional Way Ishtar Gate - ziggurat Etemenanki - Hanging Gardens / Wordworm et Henri have fun with French - words similar to English - endings -tion -ent -ant -ence -able / Dinner story by Greg Acheson / Calculata's magic squares - magic constant / Win Bad Tuesdays books by Benjamin Myers in Finish the story competition

July/August 2009 - Legend of King Arthur/Paper
Summer of the International Year of Astronomy - asteroids Mars splashes on struts of lander Phoenix International Space Station total solar eclipse Perseid meteor shower / Meet author Linda Newbery / Win book The Sandfather / Should animals be used for testing - cosmetics toiletries vivisection household cleaning products alternative tests Humane Cosmetics Standard HCS Leaping Bunny / Secret messages - codes cryptography / Win RSPB fluffy birds / Make Camelot Desk Tidy / In search of King Arthur - Tintagel Cadbury Castle Winchester Round Table Stonehenge Merlin Glastonbury Abbey Avalon Colchester Dozmary Pool Excalibur Bodmin Moor Bolventor Ruthin Llyn Dinas Snowdon Tryfan Bardsey Island / Story Thomas in Time part two by Valerie Thame / The Legend of King Arthur topic boardgame - Uther Pendragon Tintagel Kay Lancelot Guinevere Mordred Holy Grail Jesus Last Supper Joseph of Arimathea Battle of Mount Badon Camelot King Leodegrance Cameliard Merlin Excalibur magic scabbard Brittany Battle of Camlann Morgan le Fay Bedivere Avalon / Recommended stories about Arthur - King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table [Green, Williams] - Corbenic - Here Lies Arthur - Dark is Rising - Seeing Stone - Sword in the Stone / Win book Curious Mind of Young darwin / Cut the carbon - Rubbish - reduce reuse recycle / Twenty20 Cricket - ace manoeuvres moon ball front foot flick slower-ball bouncer reverse slog or switch-hit - advice from Rupert Kitzinger batting bowling fielding - star players Virender Sehwag Shahid Afridi Albie Morkel Chris Gayle Andrew Flintoff Jesse Ryder / Paper making through the centuries papyrus textile rags China cellulose fibre paper sizes / Paper chain from forest to high street - Finnish paper mill / Origami - fold a paper crane - story of Sadako Sasaki / Living Latin words and roots / Story A Tangle of Net by Jennifer Maruno / Win Paper making kit

June 2009 - Mexico
Win Live Butterfly Garden / Animals of Mexico - 65,000 species variety of climates ecosystems mammals reptiles snakes birds biodiversity megadiverse countries / Mexican recipes - hot chocolate - molette - cat's tongues / Science of chocolate xocolatl bitter water how chocolate is made - is it good for you? - theobromine and animals - experiment to discover melting temperature / Make a Talavera Mexican-style serving platter (from strips of paper and pva glue) / Just think - Does democracy matter? - Plato Hobbes Existentialists / Cut carbon - green gardening / Thomas in Time story part 1 by Valerie Thame / Win Dognapped plus two other Amy Carter mystery books by Karen King

May 2009 - Pottery
Win Seven Sorcerers book plus six other books / Pets are good for you! - Human animal bond - decrease stress - therapy dogs / White gold story of porcelain - ceramic secret formula Elector of Saxony King of Poland Augustus the Strong Meissen Samuel Stoltzel Claudius du Paquier - Chinese exports 17th century / Make Kokeshi clay dolls / Pottery - archaeology coil pot Gravettian figurines Grimstone-Lyles Hill firing glazes Raku Mesopotamia throwing pots / Plasticity of clay terracotta kaolin China clay Josiah Spode Staffordshire Pyrometric cones Blue and white china Thomas Minton Willow pattern The Potteries maker's marks / Tea with Granny story part 2 by Lisa Robbins / How green is your pet? Choosing a pet - responsible ownership / Surf-it pottery websites / Win Pirate's Chest and Spy Briefcase plus manuals

April 2009 - Spring
Win Powered Hovercraft kit / Woodland in winter and spring - coppice - Wild about woods day - ancient woodland / Early birds early springs - adapting to climate change - phenology - Woodland Trust Nature's Calendar / Make a decorated cake / Spring - vernal equinox 23.4deg tilt BST 1916 Easter Egyptian sphinx rabbit hare painted eggs Eostre Ostern Passover Paques Pasqua Pascua Lent Mardi Gras Shrove Tuesday Ash Wednesday Fasching Fastnacht Rose Monday Carnival carne vale Haru Matsuri Purim Nowruz Holi / Greek words chloros photo / Tea with Granny story part 1 by Lisa Robbins / Be a young reviewer - classical music - Bachtrack / Win Mummy Snatchers of Memphis book plus six other books

March 2009 - Shapes
Win The Magic Thief and six other books / Light pollution - star parties - measure the sky's darkness - International Dark Sky Association / Kumari - living goddess Kathmandu Nepal Durga / Make Chinese tangram game / The golden ratio length divided by width = 1.618034 - tessellation - M. C. Escher / Shapeshifters in myth, folklore, science fiction and fantasy - Skrulls Galligantua Fafnir Leszy Naga Madame White Snake huli jing - Welsh and Greek/Roman mythology / World Book Day - Meet author Joseph Delaney / Win first five Spook books / Just think - triangles - Rationalists Empiricists / The Invisible Man story by Nicky Ball / Win Tetris cube

February 2009 - The Arctic Circle
Win book A Really Short History of Nearly Everything / The Empty Den - future for polar bears - International Leadership Camp Hudson Bay ESA satellite Envisat / Britain's quest for north-west passage - Martin Frobisher John Davis Henry Hudson Edward Parry John Franklin Leopold McClintock Robert McClure Roald Amundsen / Make a snow globe / Lands of the midnight sun - what defines the Arctic Circle - solstices - northern lights aurora borealis - arctic peoples / Deafness - hearing loss cochlear implant British sign language / Chinese new year - remembering associated animals - thinkalink / Cut carbon shopping choices - use toaster match pan to hob / Darren the dragon story part two by Elizabeth Kay / Win Yoga Planet illustrated cards

January 2009 - Genes and DNA [We are now dropping the use of Volume and Issue Number]
Win family tickets to stage show 'Why the Whales Came' / Cut carbon mobile phones - exercise / Robert Burns Night 25th January 250 anniversary / Johannes Kepler - Mysterium Cosmographicum - Astronomia Nova - sight optics birth year of Christ - supernova - Kepler Mission 4th March 2009 / Budongo Trail Edinburgh Zoo chimpanzees Uganda / Deoxyribonucleic Acid polymer monomers double helix inheritance chromosomes dna fingerprinting forensics - science of Jurassic Park / Make fingerprint people / Just think - is 'teleporting' possible? - Descartes Wittgenstein / Darren the dragon story part one by Elizabeth Kay / Win Marrakech boardgame

December 2008 - Vol XV 7 - Magic
Win Hocus Pocus book by making up a magic word / Young Magicians Club Dominic Wood Secrets magazine workshops auction - International Brotherhood of Magicians British Ring J-Day / Science magic - mini explosion - bones in a knot - egg in bottle - magic ruler - eggs behaving badly - ice cube trick - static electricity / Make a magic wand and wallet - move £5 note trick / Topic - Houdini 1874-1926 - Indian rope trick disappearing elephant Magic Circle simple card trick / Free Gifts story by Alice Nuttall / Surf it magic sites / Cut carbon computer tips / Win Superball Hyperlauncher by science quiz

November 2008 - Vol XV 6 - Gravity
Win Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox / Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2008 / Astra looks at gravity - Isaac Newton Johannes Kepler Albert Einstein - precessional orbits - gravitational lensing effect - black holes dark matter Whirlpool galaxy M51 / Make 'apple darts' game / Brainfeeders mention tetrahedral numbers - solutions mention triangular numbers / Gravity topic - Galileo Apollo 15 David Scott hammer-feather Isaac Newton 1 newton = force of apple pushing on hand - tides weather gravity compared with magnet / Play snooker / Secrets story part 2 by Jean Harrowven / 17th Great AQUILA Treasure Hunt pt 2 crossword / Cut carbon - wear sweater draw curtains draughtproofing hot water bottle etc

October 2008 - Vol XV 5 - Autumn
Win Great Explorers book / The history of powered flight - Samuel Franklin Cody Orville and Wilbur Wright Alberto Santos-Dumont Short brothers Louis Bleriot John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon Charles Rolls John Alcock Arthur Whitten Brown - European air travel - transatlantic flights - Sir Frank Whittle - Amelia Earhart / Yummy blood - bloodsuckers mosquitoes ticks flies fleas mites headlice lampreys vampire bats oxpecker proboscis malaria tsetse fly sleeping sickness leeches - reattaching a boy's ear - Masaai - black pudding drisheen boudin noir morcilla blutwurst / Cut carbon - car sharing - packed lunch / Autumn - Keats equinox Fall Thanksgiving Harvest Sukkot Tabernacles sukkah Mehr Samhain All Hallows Bonfire bonefire / Make painting pots and planting bulbs for spring / 17th Great AQUILA Treasure Hunt - match book title to description / Maths networks - Konigsberg bridge - nodes degrees / Secrets story part 1 by Jean Harrowven

September 2008 - Vol XV 4 - World War I
Win tickets to Roald Dahl Museum and books / Kilve Court Somerset / Fritz and Clara Haber Haber-Bosch process development of chemical weapons explosives poisonous chlorine gas / Make a biplane / The Great War / Poppy Day Royal British Legion In Flanders Fields John McCrae / Just think... doing bad things to get good results Utilitarian Kantian philosophy Just War theory / Three Pots for Harry story by Jackie Banerjee / Win Archie's War book

July/August 2008 - Vol XV 2/3 - Birds of prey/The coast of Britain
Olympics - Beijing / Make an owl iPod case / Birds of prey - falcons merlins road raptors hawks eagles ospreys honey buzzards / Summer crossword / Just think about what a game is / Win Roman Mysteries DVD / EJF Environmental Justice Foundation - fair trade cotton / Make a printed t-shirt - painted t-shirt / Win GloSlime Factory / Murder in the Deep story part 2 by Fiona Veitch Smith / Coast of Britain - how many islands? Forth bridges Tyneside Whitby Orford Ness Thames Estuary Martello Towers Jurassic Coast Land's End Pendine Sands Crosby Beach Whales and dolphins Grey seals / Tides spring and neap / Surfing / Lighthouses - trenails Skerryvore Foghorns Fresnel lens DGPS Differential Global Position System / Grace Darling / The Shoemaker's Son story by Anne Forsyth / Tidal islands St Michael's Mount Lindisfarne Hilbre Burgh Dragon's Head / Make ice creams by Sam Stern / Win 'Giants' book

June 2008 - Vol XV 1 - Glass
Win Cosmic Rocket or Drinks Can Robug kit / Buddhist boy monks in Sikkim India - gompa / What is glass - how is glass made - silica soda lime silicon dioxide sodium carbonate calcium carbonate - not a true solid - refraction - coloured glass - optical fibres / Victorian child glass workers - Pilkingtons schools / Early glass - bull's eyes - stained glass - bottles - recycling - laminated - toughened / Pierre de Fermat's last theorem - prime numbers triangle square pentagonal numbers / Make marionettes / Win Puppet Theatre book / Murder in the Deep story part 1 by Fiona Veitch Smith

May 2008 - Vol XIV 12 - Museums
Win Dinosaur replica toys / Results of AQUILA Young Reporter Competition 2008 / Archaeology all around us - field shapes winding paths rabbit holes ploughed fields extensions maps - Portable Finds Officer / Meet museum curator Stephen Quirke - Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology / Brainfeeders - Egyptian heiroglyphics su doku / Topic - Great Library at Alexandria - Ashmolean - Louvre - unusual museums - Natural History Museum Walter Rothschild / Make fly in amber biscuits / Bad Dog story part 2 by Jennifer Casey / Win How to Avoid a Wombat's Bum book of fascinating facts

April 2008 - Vol XIV 11 - Ireland
Win Pylos wooden game / Irish sports - hurling gaelic football / Geology of Ireland - Gondwana Iapetus Ocean shale Rheic Ocean trilobites the Burren Marble Arch Caves Giant's Causeway drumlins erratics / Make noughts and crosses game / Ireland topic - emigration Irish flag Blarney stone Brian Boru Book of Kells Lough Neagh Finn MacCool Benandonner St Patrick Leprechauns Shamrock / Philosophy - think about the Mars Colony - how much should people be paid for what they do - John Rawls Karl Marx / Bad Dog story part 1 by Jennifer Casey / Surf-it - Irish websites / Win Animal Records book from Natural History Museum

March 2008 - Vol XIV 10 - Cartoons
Win RSPB Birdwatching Guide / Rescue air ambulances deMooy helicopters EMS HEMS Police helicopters skyshout / Extinction steller's sea cow great auk thylacine baiji Lonesome George pinta giant tortoise bonobos giant panda southern white rhino WWF / More Manga draw a manga body - basic body shapes / Meet illustrator David Armitage / Make an Easter card / Andy's Owl story by David Auger / Win hot air balloon ride in 'design a pair of glasses' competition

February 2008 - Vol XIV 9 - Native Americans
Win Know Your Brain book / Snowflakes - biggest - Shirenewton Gwent Fort Keough Montana - dendrites - how to catch and measure snowflakes / Tribal tongues - Native American languages - Navajo Sioux Narragansett Algonquian Plains Arawakan Cree - Lake Webster Massachusetts Chargoggagogg... - smoke signals / Life on a reservation - Lakota tribe - South Dakota - buffalo - bison - importance of 4 - medicine wheel - tepees teepees / Native American quiz / Make a desktop tepee / The Quest for Healing story as told by Philip Ardagh / Win Art & Craft Studio CD-ROM / Infinity - biggest number - origin of symbol - Hilbert's Hotel

January 2008 - Vol XIV 8 - Time
Win tickets to Horrible Histories Live on Stage / Snowboarding / Make clocks from CDs - pirate clock - numbers clock / Time - distance of Earth's orbit around Sun - microseconds - chronons - time zones - international date line - sundials water clocks candle clocks hour-glass sand-glass - pendulum Christian Huygens Holland 1656 - John Harrison 1759 marine chronometer - wristwatch 1880 - atomic clock - quartz clock 1928 - Gregorian and Julian calendars - Hebrew Jewish calendar 3761 BC - Chinese calendar 2637 BC - Hindu Indian calendar 79 AD - Islamic calendar 622 - Mayan calendar / Just think - Zhuangzi and the butterfly - Rene Descartes - how can you tell when you are dreaming? / Chinese Terracotta Army 1974 - Lintong - Qin Shihuangdi - First Emperor / Young Reporter Competition 2008 - Museums

December 2007 - Vol XIV 7 - Stars
Win Tantrix puzzle / Powerhouses of the universe - Eagle nebula - star eggs - protostars - nuclear fusion - Einstein's equation E=mc2 - planetary nebula - cat's eye - white dwarf - supernova - LMC Large Megellanic Cloud - ring of pearls - random walk / Make pinhole planetarium nightlight / Hanukkah - Dreidel - Menorah shamash servant candle - star biscuits / Stars - binoculars - western sky early December - eastern sky late December - Comet 17P/Holmes / Drawing stars - nets for tetrahedron octahedron icosahedron / Christmas crossword / Beast of Bodmin story by Sue Hodgkinson / Win Crafty Activities book

November 2007 - Vol XIV 6 - The human body
Win Horrible Science kits - Disgusting Digestion / Shell Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2007 / Circulation of the blood - William Harvey - blood cells - bone marrow - take your pulse - erythrocytes - leucocytes - thrombocytes - plasma / Make an eyeball nightlight / The human body - carbon iron fat ears Eustachian tube eyes tongue nails bladder skin sweat melanin hair stomach intestines teeth brain skeleton bones hyoid / The King's Riddle story part 2 by Kathryn England / Bonfire food - pumpkin soup - traditional gingerbread - mulled apple juice / Treasure Hunt 2007 part 2

October 2007 - Vol XIV 5 - Friends
Win Michael Morpurgo book and anthology of poetry / Poisonous fungi - spores - puffball - death cap Amanita phalloides - destroying angel Amanita virosa - panther cap Amanita pantherina - devil's boletus Boletus satanus - fly agaric Amanita muscaria - toadstool - mycotoxins / Religious Society of Friends - Quakers - George Fox - Justice Bennett - William Penn Pennsylvania - Cadburys Wedgwood Clarks Rowntree Frys Barclays Lloyds - Elizabeth Fry - Oxfam Amnesty International - SPICE simplicity peace integrity community equality / Friendship around the globe - Golden Tapestry - airmail - IPA International Police Association - Royal Commonwealth Society - Rotary Club - The Lions - Town twinning / Topic - making new friends - staying friends - what kind of friend are you quiz - books about friendship - friendship bracelets - pen friends / Make a codewheel - cipher wheel - Thomas Jefferson / Treasure Hunt 2007 part 1 / The King's Riddle story part 1 by Kathryn England

September 2007 - Vol XIV 4 - Alexander the Great
Win - I Am Great Horse book / Is your school an Eco School? - Crossways School South Gloucester / Support your favourite team - Rugby Union World Cup / Make an Alexander the Great coin cast / Topic - Alexander 356-323 BC - Macedonia - Bucephalus - battle tactics - polygamy / Science - mosquitoes - how they find us - proboscis - anticoagulant - spreading diseases / Things That Go Bump In The Night story part 2 by Jackie Banerjee / Wordworm - battle words - words from Greek - prefixes / Win Stargazers' Almanac 2008

July/August 2007 - Vol XIV 2/3 - Railway journeys / 20th-Century design
Cycle tracks - old railways - Beeching / Orient Express - Paris Giurgiu / Steam transport - James Watt - Richard Trevithick - Rocket - George and Robert Stephenson - coal - pistons - Mallard / Railway journeys - global passenger numbers - Maglev - Trans Siberian Railway - Bullet train shinkansen - Union Pacific Central Pacific - TGV train a grande vitesse - diesel TEP 80 - Talgo XXI - Seikan tunnel - Binhai Mass Transit Bridge No 1 - Tay Bridge - McGonagall poem / Make mosaic sundial - gnomon / Win RSPB Wildlife Explorer binoculars or fluffy bird / Wordworm et Henri vont en vacances / Stinky Socks story by Nicola Ball / Imaginary numbers - natural numbers - rational numbers - irrational numbers - complex numbers - fractal Mandelbrot set / Win Bad Spy's Guide by Pete Johnson - finish story competition / Bubbles - bubble solution recipe - wands - cube-shaped bubble / Chernobyl - nuclear power - radioactivity / 20th-century design - mass production - transport and communications technology / Manga - Osamu Tezuka - Astro Boy - anime - Hayao Miyazaki / Win cycle helmet and goody bag / Summer crossword / Scouting 100th anniversary - Baden-Powell - Brownsea Island / Things That Go Bump In The Night story part one by Jackie Banerjee / UNESCO World Heritage Sites - Stonehenge / Win OUP Children's Classics

June 2007 - Vol XIV 1 - Summertime
Win - KidzLabs Animation Praxinoscope or Pinhole Camera / Saturn in the summer / Fish for all - sustainable fishing - dwindling fish stocks - Marine Stewardship Council - the blue tick - overfishing - bycatch / Edward Elgar - 150th anniversary of his birth - Worcester - St George's Roman Catholic Church organist - Alice Roberts / Summer - bank holidays - BST - solstice / Kebabs recipes - Win 'Real Food Real Fast' book by Sam Stern - teenage chef / Pythagoras - theorem - pure maths / Alice Pocket and the Great Fire of London story part 3 by Valerie Thame / Results of Young Reporter Competition 2007

May 2007 - Vol XIII 12 - The Impressionists
Win Oodles of doodles book / Dragonflies - four-spotted chaser - brilliant emerald - emerald damselfly - beautiful demoiselle - brown hawker - common darter - ancient names for: devil's riding-horses - snake doctors - horse stingers - devil's darning needles / The slave trade - trade triangle - Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa) - John Newton trader turned abolitionist - Amazing Grace - The Zong slave ship - William Wilberforce - The Quakers / Protecting birds in Lebanon - Peace and Birds Camp - migration routes - himas / Who were Impressionists - Monet Renoir Pisarro Degas Cezanne - term first used 1874 - painting en plein air / Try Impressionist painting / Rock-It-Ball 2005 - Keith Chegwin / Alice Pocket and the Great Fire of London story part two by Valerie Thame / Win Derwent Aquatone pencils, pastel pencils or pod

April  2007 - Vol XIII 11 - London
Win - Gardening kit / Battersea Dogs & Cats Home - Mary Tealby 1860 / Dr Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 / Win The Usborne Book of London / Topic - London's history - Romans - Tudors - plague - fire - Trafalgar Square - Houses of Parliament - London Eye - Cleopatra's Needle - St Paul's Cathedral - Millennium Bridge - London Bridge - The Globe Theatre - The Swiss Re Building - The Gherkin - Tower Bridge - Tower of London - Christopher Wren - timeline 100BC to present / Wordworm's Cockney rhyming slang / Pearly Kings and Queens - make a pearly item / Alice Pocket and the Great Fire of London story part one by Valerie Thame

March  2007 - Vol XIII 10 -  Coral reefs
Win Giant Skeleton kit or Bones Book and Mini Skeleton / Coral - polyps - plankton - algae zooxanthellae - symbiotic relationships - threats to coral - bleaching - oxygen radicals - oceans becoming more acidic - carbonic acid - hydrogen ions - pH of seawater 8.2 - pH scale - pure water 7.0 - strong acid 0 - strong alkali 14 / Fractals - cauliflower - cow parsley - ferns - Mandelbrot - snowflakes - Snowflake Curve Koch Curve - make a snowflake fractal with elastic / Salt - Kansas Underground Salt Museum - Avery Island salt dome - brine - vacuum pan evaporator - prefixes and suffixes indicating salt wich wyche sal / Make a simnel pastry for Mother's Day / Topic coral reefs - giant clams - sea slugs - sea wasps - brain coral - staghorn - sea fan - clownfish - anemones - barracudas - regal tang - clown triggerfish - butterfly fish - stone fish - parrotfish - cleaner wrasses - moray eel - crown of thorns starfish - Great Barrier Reef - hammerhead shark - wobbegong shark - reef shark - lion fish - manta ray - sea horse / Story Japanese folktale Momo-Taro retold by Jennifer Maruno / Win a boat trip to go dolphin spotting or a dolphin soft toy

February 2007 - Vol XIII 9 -  Zoo animals
Environmental enrichment - presentation of food - chimps seals sea lions monkeys tigers lorikeets lories / Drusillas Park - breeding programmes - record keeping - studbooks - animal records - conservation - fund raising / Zarafa giraffe walks from Marseilles to Paris 1827 / Development of modern zoos - menageries - oldest zoo Vienna - animals in captivity for and against - Jumbo / Make a giraffe puppet / AQUILA 'Young reporter' competition 2007 - school dinners / Wordworm et Henri au zoo / Story Harry and the Outlaws part two by Rowena Edlin-White / Win tickets to Science of Spying exhibition / Win Bird Watching made easy dvd - draw a bird

January 2007 - Vol XIII 8 -  Fakes and forgeries
Win Gatty's Tale by Kevin Crossley-Holland / Meet the author Kevin Crossley-Holland / Animals in wars - dogs horses elephants pigeons dolphins goldfish cats - Army Veterinary Corps - Winkie pigeon - Judy Buster dogs - Simon cat - PDSA Dickin medal - Voytek bear - Bandoola elephant / Science - counterfeit coins banknotes passports - clipping / Make fake book / Topic Fakes and forgeries - fairy photographs 1920 - Conan Doyle - Loch Ness Monster - Piltdown Man - Dawson - Horatio Bottomley - Mona Lisa - magic trick moving arrow / Prime numbers - public key code / Story Harry and the Outlaws part one by Rowena Edlin-White / Win Membership of Pups Club or Cuddly pup from Guide Dogs for the Blind

December 2006 - Vol XIII 7 -  Winter
Win Wobble Deck / Astra winter stars - Uranus - Andromeda Galaxy - Orion Nebula - Pleiades / EB wildlife in winter - migrant birds - hibernation - bird-feeding / The long winter of 1947 / Winter - solstice - Earth's axis - skating - snow sleet hail - skiing boarding bobsleigh - 'Twas the night before Christmas - Demeter Persephone Hades - Inuit Sami / Story Best Christmas by Jackie Banerjee / Make Christmas cards / Win Lego Star Wars computer games / Wordworm's Christmas crossword

November 2006 - Vol XIII 6 -  Energy
Win DVDs Growing Up Wild - Peter Pan on Ice ticket / Shell Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year / Make sun prints and decorate notebook - penholder - cards etc / Are you an energy expert? quiz / 15th Aquila Treasure Hunt part 2 / Aquila Energy game - topic - carbon footprint - reduce energy consumption - food - increase plant life to help air quality - food miles - tv and pc left on standby / Science - build an electric battery with lemons - forms of energy - light - nuclear - electrical - heat - strain - movement - sound - chemical - gravity - make a wind pump / Kit Kangaroo - judo - introduced to England by Gunji Koizumi - Olympics 1964 - translates as 'gentle way' / Room in the attic - short story by Sue Smith / Results of Finish the Story competition

October 2006 - Vol XIII 5 -  Large and small
Win audio CD - Starring Tracy Beaker / Aquila peers into the past at Dinosaurs - rebuilding fossilized skeletons - Brachiosaurus Diplodocus Argentinosaurus Supersaurus Sauroposeidon Bruhathkayosaurus sauropod Amphicoelia fragillimus Spinosaurus Giganotosaurus Carcharodontosaurus Mapusaurus Tyrannosaurus rex Baryonyx Microraptor Alvarezsaurids Saltopus Composgnathus Lesothosaurus Heterodontosaurus Ichthyosaurs Pliosaurs Pterosaurs Suchomimus Hypsilophodon Barosaurus Bambiraptor Gorgosaurus Cretaceous / Cells molecules atoms - microscopes electron microscope - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek - x-rays - tunnelling electron microscope - protons neutrons nucleus - fermions bosons elementary particles quarks gluons - light years - CMB cosmic microwave background radiation - dead stars - string theory - quantum mechanics - relativity / Deepest hole on earth - crust mantle core tectonic plates - Velebit Croatia - Tau tona goldmine - Kola Russia - Windischeschenbach Germany - Chikyu project Japan / Topic large and small - flea circus - world population - aluminium cans - hair thickness - Pluto named by Venetia Phair - globalisation - largest Christian church - Britain's fattest king - grains of rice on chessboard - chromosomes - DNA deoxyribonucleic acid - Napoleon's height - Krakatau - Tambora - Mt St Helens / Art - enlarge or reduce picture / 15th Aquila Treasure Hunt part 1 / Story part 3 - Demon Drum by Elizabeth Kay / Win Global Garden pop-up book

September 2006 - Vol XIII 4 -  Georgian times
Win - Green Board Games - Picdoku - Blokus / British t-shirt in Uganda - second-hand clothes - mivumba / Make Georgian house - dolls house / Science - James Watt and Sir Humphry Davy - steam engines - Thomas Newcomen - cylinders - pistons - Matthew Boulton - Boulton-Watt pumping engine - Kew Bridge Steam Museum - horse power - one Watt equal to one joule of energy per second - nitrous oxide laughing gas - anaesthetic - Royal Institution - Alessandro Volta - batteries - electrolysis - miner's safety lamp - Davy Lamp / Georgian times topic - 1714-1830 - Hanoverians - Regency - God save the King national anthem - Ireland joined to Great Britain Act of Union - Enclosure - first steam railway Richard Trevithick / Life of Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice / Story part two - Demon Drum by Elizabeth Kay / Wordworm words from Georgian times - bigwig jacobite scrag sash windows romantics bodysnatchers enclosure bedlam / Win book Eats Shoots and Leaves

July/August 2006 - Vol XIII 2/3 -  Camels and Llamas/New Zealand
Win - Design a cover for AQUILA / Vicunas - camelids - South America - Incas shear fleeces - Bolivia - Ulla Ulla National Reserve / Law - right to roam - countryside and rights of way act (CROW) - access land - rights of pasture - piscary - estover - Countryside code / Make camel spit cookies - iced biscuits / Topic - camels and llamas - alpacas - in Britain Peru Chile Bolivia - llamas ears like bananas - alpacas ears like spears - young called cria - guanacos - dromedary - bactrian / Win Wallace & Gromit DVD Curse of the Were Rabbit / H G Wells - science fiction - martian sculpture in Woking - War of the Worlds / Tasmanian Tiger - last of her kind? - thylacine - cloning / Story part one - Demon Drum by Elizabeth Kay / Ta Moko - Maori legend - tattoos / New Zealand storm petrel - Hauraki Gulf - Geordie Murman - pelagic birds - radio transmitters - bird lice / Win pop-up Encyclopedia Prehistorica Sharks and Sea Monsters / Aquila peers into the past at Captain Cook discovers New Zealand - search for southern continent - Joseph Banks - transit of Venus - Botany Bay - the bark Endeavour / Make a Maori headband - taniko weaving / Topic - New Zealand travelogue - Aotearoa Land of the long white cloud - Hangi barbecue - kiwis - Te Papa Tongarewa - moa - NZ flag / Astra - southern sky - rabbit in the moon - crux southern cross - large Magellanic cloud - small Magellanic cloud - LMC SMC - carina - jewel box / Hinepau the flax weaver - Maori creation myth retold by Ronda Armitage / Sport - famous names - Sir Richard Hadlee - Jonah Lomu - Casey Williams - Valerie Vili - Mark Todd - Hamish Carter - Bevan Docherty - John Walker / Win Jinx on the Divide / Wordworm's summer crossword

June 2006 - Vol XIII 1 - Climate change
Win books - Barkbelly, Snowbone / Meet illustrator Gary Northfield / Gases in the air - carbon dioxide - methane - water - greenhouse effect - ice cores - estimate your carbon footprint / Story - Eric Numbskull part 2 / Global warming - be a reporter competition results / Photovoltaic cells - solar cells - photovoltaics - silicon - solar parks - Green Futures Centres of Inspiration / Make a recycled rug - polythene bags rag rug / Win GoGetter puzzles

May 2006 - Vol XII 12 - Making music
Win life story book of Mozart / National Village Show - grow a giant sunflower / Do you need glasses? - wearing spectacles - are glasses cool? - headaches - eye tests - which frames? - discomfort / Science - sounds - music - vibrations - sound waves - amplify - blowing - hitting - plucking - scraping - glass harmonica - bottles of water - box and rubber bands - standing waves / Make wind chimes with found objects and terracotta pots / Topic making music - play an instrument - violin - harp - ocarina - tablas / Story - Eric Numbskull part 1 by Julie Coomer / Wordworm - definitions - complete the sentences / In tune - didgeridoo - what is it - what does it mean - termites - secret music - player profile plastic pipe - Kevin Howard professional didgeridoo teacher / Maths - Sophie Germain - life during the Revolution - Monsieur Le Blanc - important dates in Sophie's life / Win Tribal Kazoo kits

April 2006 - Vol XII 11 - The Incas
Win DVDs - Pirates - kids do yoga too / Young Archaeologist of the Year Award 2006 / Make painted Easter eggs - Easter in Germany - Bieberbach - Osterhase - dye eggs with onion - spinach leaves - tea leaves - beetroot - polish  up with bacon rind / Are two eyes better than one? - binocular vision - monocular vision - depth perception - predators - prey / A trip with Raul - Inca boy - Cuzco ombligo del mundo - Sacsayhuaman - Tambo Machay - Pisac sacred valley - Altiplano - Salineras salt pans - Ollantaytambo - canchas housing blocks - Machu Picchu / Topic - the Incas - brain surgery llamas alpacas quipu conquistadors quechua language terraces guano mummies / Make quipu / Aquila peers at union jack / Black cat for luck story part 2 / Win membership of Children's Poetry Bookshelf and see your poem in print / Over to you - Grand Basset Griffon Vendeen and Petit dogs - Lara Fowler's life in France / Surf it - virtual inca archaeology

 

March 2006 - Vol XII 10 - Water, wells & irrigation
Win Chasing Vermeer book / Waterway wildlife - rivers - canals - bats - coots - dragonflies - grass snakes - frogs - herons - kingfishers - swans - otters / Astra - water for life - water on other planets - Mars' ice caps - Stardust returns to Earth with material from Comet Wild 2 - New Horizons spacecraft to Pluto / Make wishing well money box / Topic - water cycle - icebergs - evaporation - condensation - precipitation - WaterAid charity - Sakia - Archimedes' screw - shaduf / Kit Aussie rules football - Australian rules / Wordworm et Henri - le cycle de l'eau - the water cycle / Black cat for luck story part 1 / Win a Superweek with ATE holidays
 

February 2006 - Vol XII 9 - Baby Creatures
Win Spartapuss books / Whipsnade Wild Animal Park - Southern white rhinoceros - Reticulated giraffe - Gemsbok - Common hippopotamus - Asian elephant - Grevy's zebra - Roan antelope / It's the law - Hunting ban - Parliament - House of Commons - House of Lords - The Queen - Parliament Act 1911 - Parliament Act 1949 - War Crimes Act 1991 - Countryside Alliance / Make pancakes - Scotch pancakes - Shrove Tuesday - shriving - Lent - Mardi Gras - pancake races - Olney 1445 / Topic - human baby - babies' eyes dark blue - leopards - lions - wolf - wolves - turtles - quokka marsupial - blue whale / Do you know your roots? - Rooted television series - Bangladesh - India - Morocco - Punjab - St Kitts Caribbean - Jordan - Bulgaria / Win Su Doku book / Story by Rowena Edlin-White - Can Billy Play? Part 2 / Wordworm's baby words - '-let' '-ling'

 

January 2006 - Vol XII 8 - The Media
Win Narnia CDs / Mozart - Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus - Amadeus - Salzburg - Leopold - Constanze - Ludwig Kochel catalogue K numbers / Science books reviewed / Make zoetrope wheel of life / Topic Media - newspapers magazines internet television radio - BBC - Takeover Radio - British Board of Film Censorship - censor / Squabbles and quarrels / Competition - Be a reporter for AQUILA - see your report published - Horrible Geography books for runners up / Story by Rowena Edlin-White - Can Billy Play? Part 1 / Dr Who - Time Lords Tardis Cybermen Ice Warriors Silurians Daleks The Master / Pen friend club

 

December 2005 - Vol XII 7 - Penguins
Win DVD Madagascar / Venus and Mars - phases of Venus - Venus Express / Frankincense - resin - Dhofar - Oman - Yemen - Balthazar - Ethiopia - Saba - fragrances - Cleopatra - Rome - Babylon - frankincense used in mummification - Nero - Baal - kohl eye liner - breath freshener - medicinal uses - camel caravans - Hadhramaut - dhows - Empty Quarter - manghaf knife - lost city of Ubar / Make a penguin mobile / Penguin topic - Antarctica - South Africa - Galapagos - Adelie - Gentoo - Emperor - King - Chinstrap - Rockhopper - Humboldt - Macaroni / Tearcraft - 30 years - poverty - fair trade - Tearfund - Bangladesh - George Hoffman / Meet Eoin Colfer / Win Artemis Fowl The Opal Deception / Clue! short story by Mary Bridson / Wordworm's Christmas Crossword / Over to you - reader Rose Mulvey's unfinished story Intention

 

November 2005 - Vol XII 6 - The senses
Win 'Don't Panic' game / Perfume - perfumed oils - ancient Egyptians - Greeks - Romans - cardamom - aloe - citron - lily - marjoram - rose - myrtle - peppermint - rosemary - essential oils - lavender - make pot pourri / Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year / The rights of children - legal - civil - political - economic - cultural - UN - United Nations - Unicef - Convention on the Rights of the Child - school charter - refugees - displaced people - child soldiers - Angola - Sierra Leone / Sense of sight - hearing - taste - touch - smell - brain - nerve cells - optical illusions - sixth sense - sound waves - diagram of ear - decibels dB - taste buds - Nelson's eye grizzly party trick / Palindromes - 3-letter - 4-letter / Make pomanders - oranges - cloves - spices - lemons - limes / Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle - Basil Rathbone - Jeremy Brett - Dr Watson - Mrs Hudson - Professor Moriarty - Inspector Lestrade - Baker Street Irregulars / Hands on History story part 3 / Win Tintin and Snowy Album 1 / 14th Aquila Treasure Hunt part 2

 

October 2005 - Vol XII 5 - Treasure
Tearcraft 30th anniversary / Peer into the past at Battle of Trafalgar 1805 - Horatio Nelson - Napoleon Bonaparte - emperor of France - Admiral Villeneuve - French fleet - Spanish fleet - Cadiz - invasion of Britain - Battle of Waterloo  - Napoleonic wars - Thomas Masterman Hardy - HMS Victory - Collingwood - parts of a ship - cutaway of Victory / Go Treasure Hunting - Global positioning system - GPS - geocaching - travel bugs - latitude - longitude / 14th Aquila Treasure Hunt pt 1 / Harvey looks at gold - silver - diamonds - carats - pure carbon - diamond lattice - refractive index - carob tree - ceratonia siliqua - St John's bread - siliqua - keratia - Great Star of Africa - cutting - round brilliant - graphite - industrial diamonds - dentist's drill - cremation ashes / Pirates' treasure - Clementine - gold rush 1849 - prospectors - Superstition Mountain Arizona - Sutton Hoo Suffolk - Machu Picchu - Andes - conquistadors - Cortes - Quetzalcoatl - Montezuma - Pizarro - pharaohs - curses - Tutankhamun Tutankhamen - Howard Carter - Lord Carnarvon / Make a treasure chest from old Weetabix boxes / Hands on history story pt 2 - six wives of Henry VIII

 

September 2005 -  Vol XII 4 - Ancient Rome
Making a cd - Thomas Edison - first recordings - phonograph - LP - vinyl - Abbey Road studios / story of Pompeii - Vesuvius - Herculaneum - Pliny the younger Pliny the elder - Tacitus / Roman plumbing - public baths - tepidarium - calidarium - frigidarium - aqueducts / Roman life - Romulus - amphitheatre - toga - senators / make Roman cake - libum / look after your back - back pain - physiotherapists / story - Hands on history pt 1 / 12 Latin phrases

 

July/Aug 2005 -  Vol XII 2/3 - China / bees & wasps
Design a cover comp / Win Chinese brush painting kit / win poetry anthology / win Super Spy kit / win microscope / pandas / fireworks - pyrotechnics - calcium - copper - strontium - sodium - barium / Chinese gift envelope / yin and yang - feng shui / Chinese philosophy - how the world became - dao - sage - Lao Tze - immortal Lu / Astra - Arecibo radio telescope - exoplanets / Calculata's binary code for communicating with aliens / Dreamtime story pt 2 / read it / surf it / Falkland Islands - king penguin - gentoo / vacuum - Otto von Guericke - Magdeburg / Kit's athletics - running - jumping - throwing / recipes with honey / Wheelchair wonder short story / pen friends

 

June 2005 - Vol XII 1 - Fossils
Win Dr Who book / body fossils - trace fossils - crinoids - jurassic - Dorset - sea urchins - starfish - thunderstones - shelly limestone - ammonite - Rockwatch / win Egyptology book / Chinese paper cuts - dragon - butterfly - dolphin / EB saving energy - Changa Manga Pakistan stove / fossil record game / wearing a brace / picture writing / Dreamtime story pt 1 / hunt Harlequin ladybird / read it

 

May 2005 - Vol XI 12 - Photography
Win cycling goody bag / win crime mystery books / Mt St Helens volcano - Loowit / camera obscura - Aristotle - Euclid - Kepler / make photo album / Daguerrotypes - digital / horse riding / Amazing Billy Chickweed story pt 2 / hold your own election / pen friends

 

April 2005 - Vol XI 11 - Shakespeare
Win Fandex field guide to Shakespeare / win classic fairy tale book and cd / Medical charity IASIS in Brazil / fat / make model theatre / in tune - glass music / Hans Christian Andersen / Inessential Shakespeare / Amazing Billy Chickweed story pt 1 / read it

 

March 2005 - Vol XI 10 - Engineering
Win LogiRobot / life in Sri Lanka / make mother's day present / jelly bean engineering / how we elect leaders - democracy / Courage of Spartans story pt 2 / quick multiplication / Huygens - Cassini - Titan / win bundle of five books / pen friends

 

February 2005 - Vol XI 9 - Wildlife in Britain
Win nature hide & seek book / meet Roger McGough / make nest boxes for birds and bees / animal sayings / Win owl puke / make animal masks / competitions and ideas for half term / Courage of Spartans story pt 1 / read it

 

January 2005 - Vol XI 8 - History
Win Stephen Jackson's Mirrorworld / lacrosse / Nikola Tesla / Captain Coram - foundlings - mudlarks - children's home / history snakes and ladders game / make Celtic knots / Nicole and paper witches story pt 3 / read it / WW and Henri calendar / win Power Yo yoyo with cd of tricks / pen friends

 

December 2004 - Vol XI 7 - Christmas fun
Win Peter Pan & Wendy centenary edition / Dian Fossey - mountain gorillas of Rwanda / Polly Chrome's negatives / Aquila peers at Peter Pan / Christmas traditions and fun things to do / Nicole & Paper Witches story pt 2 / December night sky / read it / Treasure hunt pt 2

 

November 2004 - Vol XI 6 - The wheel
Win Kids R Cooking cd / Young wildlife photographer of the year / science wheelies - cart - car -yacht - windmill - measuring - pulley / tyres / Polly's textures / advice for young authors / pen friends / Nicole and Paper Witches story pt 1 / Treasure hunt pt 1 / Win Art Attack comic creator

 

October 2004 - Vol XI 5 - Mystery
Win Kingfisher book on Spies / fencing / young carers / science mysteries - rainbow - bacteria - lightning - meteorites - fungi - gravity - Einstein - Newton / topic mysteries - premonition - Nessie - Hector dog crosses Pacific - sixth sense - esp - psychic - Mary Celeste - Bermuda Triangle / make things with pumpkins / Haunting of Tamsin Carter story / pen friends / win peg sculpture / read it / children's book week

 

September 2004 - Vol XI 4 - Celts
Win Frozen Billy by Anne Fine / lakes in Kenya / make butterfly hibernation box / Cassini - Huygens - Phoebe - storms on Saturn - Titan / peat bogs - Lindow man / place names / win fluorescent pencils / read it / Radio Detective story pt 2 / Red Squirrels

 

July/Aug 2004 - Vol XI 2/3 - France/Turtles / terrapins / tortoises
Win front cover comp / gulls / Antoine Laurent Lavoisier - burning - guillotine / sporting heroes / monotype / WW and Henri seaside spot difference / read it / Galileo pictures of Jupiter / win Wallace & Gromit / Spell of Mischief story / animals of Everglades / quiz / Win Harry Potter quiz book / things to do - places to see - National Maritime Museum - Royal Observatory - RHS Wisley - natural history / make tortoise jewellery treasure box / pen friends / Radio Detective story pt 1 / win Our Ocean Home book / water experiments - paddleboat - jet boat - fish - cork trick - fountain - siphon

 

June 2004 - Vol XI 1 - Olympic games
Win footballer Airfix models / eagles back in Britain / diaries - Pepys - Scott - Anne Frank - Sophia Sage / transit of Venus / make picnic food / surf it / Win Amazing Board Game book / Trick of the Light story pt 2

 

May 2004 - Vol X 12 -  English language
Win activity holiday - Mill on the Brue / spring in Japan - Samurai - Hanami / meet Jacqueline Wilson / win Jacqueline Wilson books / homophones - dialect / make wildlife garden - butterflies - moths - flowers / portmanteau words - tongue twisters - palindromes - pseudodrome / learning English in Germany / scientific language - Newton - Ohm - Volt - Watt - Joule - Ampere - Curie / Trick of the Light story pt 1 / enter Young Travel Photographer comp

 

April 2004 - Vol X 11 - Gardening
Win Alpha nature game / bonsai / herb gardens / make mini garden - draughtsman's garden Groombridge Place / pen friends / Long Shadows story pt 3 / comets - 2002 T7 linear - 2001 Q4 neat - Procyon - wild 2 - ESA Rosetta mission / win planisphere / RAS newspaper comp for schools - transit of Venus

 

March 2004 - Vol X 10 - Metals
Win Encyclopaedia Britannica cd - nature - dinosaurs / Michael Bell ballooning in Kenya / nucleus - electrons - atoms - metal fatigue - cores - battery experiment with wire wool / word alloys / World Book Day / paint magic squares - watercolour - gouache - pastel - basket weave / Konigsberg bridge problem / win Avenger book / Long Shadows story pt 2 / Tintin at Greenwich

 

February 2004 - Vol X 9 - Elephants
Win l'Artiste umbrella / news from Mars - Jodrell Bank - Mars Exploration Rover - Spirit - Opportunity / make paper elephant / twins / archery / win books by leading authors - World Book Day / Long Shadows story pt 1 / pen friends / surf it / 21st BG young wildlife photographer - calling all snappers

 

January 2004 - Vol X 8 - Exploration
Win Explorers wanted! books / Biba letter to Morocco / brainfeeder - fabled lands and lost cities - Troy - Atlantis - Pompeii - Machu Picchu - Chichen Itza - Timbuktu / doom paintings - Protestants - Calvinists - Martin Luther - Catholics - indulgences - reformation - Holy Trinity Church Coventry / make ancient map - explorers - pirates / exploration game / Beagle on Mars - river valleys - Mars express - Baikonur cosmodrome Kazakhstan - position adjustable workbench - mole - gas analysis package - carbon atoms 12C - 13C - isotopes - proton - neutron - mass spectrometer - magnet - Colin Pillinger / read it / maths fun with maps - topography - topology - Roger Fenn - table theorem / win metallic pen pods / Sacrifice story - Aztec times / Go UK challenge for schools

 

December 2003 - Vol X 7 - Festivals
Winter night sky - solstice - German artist Sigmar Polke - name in stars / Zoe - Biba - Morocco / make pinata / surf it / treasure hunt pt 2 / pen friends / win Custard Shop / maths - amazing folding card - two sides but four pictures / Clone encounter story pt 4 / win Toastabag

 

November 2003 - Vol X 6 - Light and colour
St Martin's Day / treasure hunt pt 1 / Clone encounter story pt 3 / win toboggan / science - Newton - prism - spectrum - refraction - filament bulb and low energy bulb - colour wheels / wildlife photographer pictures / topic - electromagnetic spectrum - convex - concave - why sky blue - Newton's dog Diamond - sun screen - mirage - laser - why sunset red / art - Turner - Cezanne - Impressionism - Seurat - Divisionism - Fauve - Pointillist - complementary colour - Rembrandt - Vermeer - contre-jour - chiaroscuro - colour wheels / dingbats / optical illusions / pen friends / win Lemony Snicket book / letter - Anglesey sea zoo aquarist for a day

 

October 2003 - Vol X 5 - Caring for the planet
Millennium Seed Bank - Royal Botanic Gardens Kew - Wakehurst Place / win mini seed bank kit / win Rainforest adventure book / life on Mars - terraforming - Mars atmosphere - Hubble space telescope - habitable zone - greenhouse effect - biomes - Eden project / make lunchbox food - crudites - tortilla wrap - tapas - fruit salad - nuts seeds dried fruit - pudding - fruity fairy cake - flapjack / poverty chain puzzle / eco friendly living - caring for planet - buses - tiger threatened by talc - rainforests - rubbish - save trees - save energy - save environment / unusual pets in Africa - tortoise - hare - eland / Children's Book Week / win Safari book / Clone encounter story pt 2 / read it / Young Environment Champion of year

 

September 2003 - Vol X 4 - Normans
Doctor Colin Tourle - IASIS - in Brazil / Win Catz and Dogz cd / comets from 1066 onwards - Bayeux tapestry - Edmund Halley - Shoemaker-Levy - Hale-Bopp - buried on another planet - Moon - Soho / make a castle / topic - feudal system - tanks - barons - Rollo / quiz - good at studying? / pen friends / WW - Latin - word endings - declension / win Divide by Elizabeth Kay / Clone encounter story pt 1 / Travel Photographer of the year

 

July/Aug 2003 - Vol X 2/3 - Australia/amphibians
Win design a cover / navigators - Matthew Flinders - George Bass - Cook - Aborigines - Dutch - Hartog - Nuyts - Tasman - surveying / children shipped to Botany Bay - convicts / holiday sketch book - Turner - Constable - Delacroix / southern sky - Mars in opposition / crystal mobile - platonic solids / read it / get fit with Kit - warm up warm down - endurance flexibility strength speed - stretching - avoid injury / win Starbles / Magician's assistant story / Swallows & Amazons - Arthur Ransome - Peel Island - Coniston Water - Lakeland - Kendal / make origami frogs - leap frog game / pen friends / win Sculpey modelling clay / EB visits school in southern India - Ronda and David Armitage - Scad - Cheranmahadevi in Tamil Nadu - Pongal - Kolam - Rangoli - salt pan - snake charmer - Spice Mountains / topic - tadpole - frog toad skin spawn migration - life cycle / meet Anne Fine - children's laureate 2001-2003 / Brooch story / win Anne Fine's books / days out - Maritime Museum - Royal Observatory - Drusillas - Wildlife Trusts / win tickets for Seedling Arts children's festival / win tickets to Imax cinema

 

June 2003 - Vol X 1 -  AQUILA 10th birthday/microscopes
EB goes to Zimbabwe - Nyamuwanga primary school - Zambesi - Zambia / Case of missing coin story pt 2 / Karl Stetter studies tiniest organisms - optical tweezer - hyperthermophile / Robert Hooke - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek - dust mite - reflection refraction - microchip - micro machines / take good photos / win binoculars / electron microscope - eukaryotic cells - membranes - prokaryotic - DNA - Escherichia coli - E coli - vacuole - chloroplast / surf it - good email guide / pen friends / win Window effects pens from Crayola / win telescope - Society for Popular Astronomy / Wrong Trousers Day - Westlife

 

May 2003 - Vol IX 12 - Textiles
Beagle mission to Mars - canals - Lowell - Martian bacterium fossil - Sojourner - water on Mars / win Designer Applique kit / Case of missing coin story pt1 / make felt / topic - silk - dye - weave warp weft loom / man-made fibres - polymers - nylon - drip dry - experiments - absorbency and slime / Levi Strauss - jeans / conquest of Everest 50 years ago - Edmund Hillary - Tenzing Norgay / win To the top book / pen friends / win How to train your parents book

 

April 2003 - Vol IX 11 - Cities
Jewish festival of Passover - kosher - matza - seder plate - haroset - afikomen - chametz / win Spanish dictionary book and cd / water - impermeable - porous - artesian well - make your own artesian well / make Easter bunny / Crime is a five letter word story pt 2 / postcards from cities / city collage / win Multimedia guide to horses / Successful surfing - guide to the web / walk on wild side - otters - hedgehogs - foxes - toads / RAS newspaper competition

 

March 2003 - Vol IX 10 - Rocks and minerals
Tors on Dartmoor / new rocks / sedimentary - magma - gneiss / Crime is a five letter word story pt 1 / Golf / make a display box to show off rock and mineral collection / Rock collecting code - geological trail / Queen Elizabeth I - progresses - armada / win Funky Rocks painting kit / crystals - balls in a box - salt - liquid crystals - diamonds - metal - x-ray crystallography - William Henry Bragg - William Lawrence Bragg / win Pirates of Pompeii book / Young Archaeologist of the year - invent your own Viking saga

 

February 2003 - Vol IX 9 - Rats, mice and rodents
Keeping a pet rodent / We all love Latin - counting - well known phrases / living with the Maasai - Michael Bell in Kenya - Bau game / win Gross Anatomy book / Philosopher Rene Descartes - I think / therefore I am - cogito ergo sum / Fur trade / Blind men and the elephant / make rat catcher - drainpipe / Ghost hunters story pt 3 / win Kingfisher Book of Living Worlds / Know your vole - difference between vole and rat / win Super-pets and Smart Owners book

 

January 2003 - Vol IX 8 - Numbers
WWF Earth Champions - world summit - water dome / win Wallace & Gromit book / make magic frame - three dimensional magic square / golden ratio - Fibonacci sequence - virtuvian man - Leonardo da Vinci - golden rectangle / zero - 0 - natural numbers - integers - fraction - rational numbers - irrational number - square root - algebraic - pi - squaring the circle - transcendental / Ghost hunters story pt 2 / Go Chinese game - igo - wei qi - baduk / win Go game and book / planets - gas giant Jupiter - Saturn / Wildlife Photographer of the year

 

December 2002 - Vol IX 7 - Life in the dark
Bats / Law - shopping - contracts - consumer / make Christmas gift bags / desert night - owls - light pollution - shiftwork / midwinter constellations / 11th treasure hunt pt 2 / win Complete book of the night / Ghost hunters story pt 1 /

 

November 2002 - Vol IX 6 - Electricity & magnetism
Treasure hunt pt 1 / Lewes bonfire - Catholics - Protestants - gunpowder plot / win Pirate Diary book / Tibby's round the world adventure story pt 4 / Samuel Morse - Oersted - make magnet / cause of lightning - power stations - national grid - James Clerk Maxwell - Benjamin Franklyn - Michael Faraday - James Watt / electric experiments - circuit - bulb holder - electromagnet / Young wildlife photographer of the year winning pics / make lamp for Divali / surf it / read it

 

October 2002 - Vol IX 5 - Cookery
Beatrix Potter - 100th anniversary of Peter Rabbit - Hill Top - Frederick Warne - Sawrey / pen friends / maths - pi - throwing sticks at paving slabs / chemistry in kitchen - yeast - bread dough - baking powder - proteins - microwaves - sugars and caramel / netball / make harvest festival feast - vegetable soup - cheesy potato bake - apple and blackcurrant crumble - ginger and apple fizz / Roman dinner menu - why cook food? - kedgeree - ravioli - crepes suzette - paella - goulash - hummus - couscous - sushi - chow mein - fajitas - why tummy rumble / win Demon Headmaster books / Tibby's round the world adventure story pt 3 / Children's Book Week / win Usborne World Cookery book and apron / Wildlife Trust - apple day

 

September 2002 - Vol IX 4 - World war II
Meet Eva Ibbotson - her childhood in Vienna / win Journey to the River Sea / inventions dating from the war - radar - Robert Watson-Watt - doodle bug - inflatable tank - prefabs - Frank Whittle turbo jet aero engine - ballpoint - biro - atomic bomb - rocket - Wernher von Braun - Mulberry harbour - Pluto pipeline under the ocean / Tibby's round the world adventure story pt 2 / surf it / win Column games by John Crane / Holocaust / make nodding dog / Schultuten - school cones - magic tree - sugar prince - zuckertutenbaum / maths - clothing coupons - dress boy and girl - cut out clothes and dolls / WW spy codes - Playfair

 

July/August 2002 -  Vol IX 2/3 - America/Mini beasts
Volcanoes in Hawaii - Pele / win design a cover / make sundial / NASA - space shuttle / USA - rubbish - Henry Ford - Puritans - Mayflower - slaves / Children and the law / win Toro toro book / hurricanes / Andy Warhol / Slug face story / make table top volcano / animal fact sheet 4 Mexican red-knee tarantula spider / win worm farm - wormery / Dig dirt - soil - worms - separate contents of soil / make glitter bugs / Kit's active sports / Awfully bug adventure - bug hunters' code - fried locusts / Tibby's around the world adventures story pt 1 / Education with a difference - home educated / win Creature peepers bug viewer /

 

June 2002 - Vol IX 1 - Plants
Queen Elizabeth's golden jubilee - accession - George VI - coronation / win Steiff bear / inside plant cells - osmosis - nucleus - vacuole - wilt - potato cube experiment - dandelion stalk experiment / pen friends / Magic magic markers pt 3 / Eden Project / preserve roses in sugar and egg white - most eaten plants - largest cucumber - photosynthesis - chlorophyll - bamboo - kelp - press flowers / dingbats / win Eden Project books / Steiff - Giengen - knopf im ohr - button in ear - creator of teddy bear / draw plants - lily freesia sketchbook / Natural History Museum news - tectonic basin

 

May 2002 - Vol VIII 12 - Rescue
Apollo 13 - Jim Lovell - Mir / animal attack quiz - crash in desert / Grace Darling - Longstone lighthouse - Bamburgh - Northumbria - RNLI - lifeboats / read it / win Derwent pastel pencils / sea ambulance in East Timor - Atauro - IASIS - Colin Tourle - cholera / St Bernard Barry - bats - George Du Prisne - Dunkirk - Shackleton - Great fire of London - Michael Proudfoot scuba - Ray Mears - sea urchins / art - techniques with pastels - fruit / 999 / Magic magic markers story pt 2 / reading runes - futhark / win Mini biographies

 

April 2002 - Vol VIII 11 - Solar system
Extreme environments - black smokers - hydrothermal vents - archaea - eubacteria - fossilised bacteria / kung fu / John Locke philosophy - education / vermin - comet Hale-Bopp - asteroid Ida's Moon - Ceres - Pluto - Oort cloud - Pioneer - Voyager - Kuiper belt / win Commonwealth games mascots and magnets / topic race through the solar system - lost in space / make a fold-out model of solar system / mnemonics / pen friends / Magic magic markers story pt 1 / win Jacqueline Wilson books

 

March 2002 - Vol VIII 10 - Rivers
Animal fact sheet 3 - Grey parrot / win Poetry by Heart / pics of carp - piranha - electric eel - gar pike - pike - rainbow trout - perch / It's the law - what is law - how made? - monarch - House of Commons / make mother's day card - quilled flowers - sugar paste or fondant roses / Ganges - Nile - Mississippi / Walk down the Pier story pt 2 / win Usborne Encyclopaedias of world geography / Harry Potter reviews of film / WW Latin - veni vidi vici - farmer sees lizard - beware of dog / read it

 

February 2002 - Vol VIII 9 - Bears
Meet Benjamin Zephaniah / win Refugee Boy book / tangrams / Compassion in world farming - Meg the one-legged hen - free-range / play hockey / make origami dolphin bookmark - pin prick printing - dream catchers / Walk down the pier story pt 1 / animal activist Graham Banes / win Twist and shout quiz game

 

January 2002 - Vol VIII 8 - Communication
Handwriting - graphology / coltan - mobile phone capacitors - gorillas - Congo - columbite-tantalite - tantalum - niobium / Telstar - cape Canaveral - geostationary satellite DIRECTV - low earth orbit - International Space Station / Ten steps to writing well / calligraphy / Bright star and the knight of darkness story / win Whizz kids computer guides / communicate through senses - pony express - smoke signals - radio signal / win Midtown madness - cycle helmet

 

December 2001 - Vol VIII 7 - Fire
Countdown to Christmas - advent - line calendar - Barbara twigs - Munich Christmas calendar / win Adventures in science - Magic tricks - Spy science / Fire triangle - heat - oxygen - fuel - respiration - steel wool experiment - jet of flame / 10th treasure hunt pt 2 / make decorated candle / Wildlife photographer of the year / 100 quiz answers / Great fire of London - John Evelyn - Samuel Pepys - John Farynor / Ghost of Cropston Hall story pt 3

 

November 2001 - Vol VIII 6 - Puzzles and codes
Treasure hunt pt 1 / 10 things you didn't know about jigsaws / win Compass Murphy novel / maths - magic cube / 10 things you didn't know about Morse code / station X - ultra - Playfair - Bletchley - Enigma machine / make a clue cake - mini Christmas cake / play rugby / Ghost of Cropston Hall story pt 2 / Pig pen code / Harry Potter crossword / choose new 7 wonders of world / seven wonders of ancient world / win Fluorescent jigsaw

 

October 2001 - Vol VIII 5 - Crafts
Pied piper cross stitch / Sticky stuff - glues and adhesives - polymerisation - cyanoacrylate / quilling paper insects / make furry bat mask / win Amazing Christmas mosaics book / Ghost of Cropston Hall story pt 1 / win Derwent Aquatone Colour Sticks / make decorations with decoupage / read it / pen friends

 

September 2001 - Vol VIII 4 - 100th issue/Greeks
Animal fact sheet 2 - Tortoise / pen friends / WW Greek - Archimedes - Pythagoras - pi - Greek alphabet - Troy - Iliad - Plato / ancient Greece - Crete - Minoa - Trojan horse / 4th century Athens / win Greek Olympics book from British Museum - fun books for runners up / Greek stories of science / Aristotle philosophy - golden mean / Number 10 shirt story / quiz - 100 questions from 100 issues / Greek maths - Socrates - Plato / is it okay to cry? - Aquila line / read it / art - perspective / 100 jokes

 

July/August 2001 -  Vol VIII 2/3 - India/Birds
Win design a cover and win Get painting set from Walker books / Bubbles - make big bubbles / Birds in space - Cygnus - Aquila - Veil nebula - Deneb - Pelican - Dumbbell - Vega - pillars in centre of Eagle nebula / Swimming / Indian food - curried red kidney beans - potato cauliflower and peas - naan bread - cheese fudge / Srinivasa Ramanujan mathematician - number theory - G H Hardy - partitions / Tiger in the forest story / make a rakhi - raksha bandhan bandan - friendship bracelet / make treasure box casket / history in high street - postbox - window tax - shambles - market cross - coaching inn - cartshed - portico / win Woodland trust goodies / Birdwatching / win binoculars and pocket guide / Dogwalkers story pt 2 / writing a cartoon story / pebbles and rocks on beach - sedimentary - metamorphic - igneous - schist - gemstone - granite / history of post - cursus publicus - Roger of Tassis - Bergamo - Maximilian - Philip the handsome / win Asterix cartoon book

 

June 2001 - Vol VIII 1 - Prehistoric times
Foot and mouth disease / win Stone Age news / stories of science - gravitational constant - big G - Henry Cavendish / maths dominoes and diamonds - tetramond - pentamond - hexamond / Astra wobbly world - precession - why summer and winter? - Polaris always North Star? / cricket / topic - paleolithic - mesolithic - neolithic - Stonehenge / Dogwalkers story pt 1 / read it / National Vegetarian Week - veggie recipes for breakfast / pen friends / win computer / wildlife week - wildlife watch / Wrong Trousers Day grand appeal - go wild / history of comics / make fossils - British Geological Survey - Rockwatch

 

May 2001 - Vol VII 12 - Dance
Animal ark - RSPCA young animal carer of the year 2000 - Robert Bland / global warming / Landing on an asteroid - near earth objects - Mathilde and Eros - Rosetta / philosophy - is it right to eat meat? - Errol the explorer meets cannibals / win Philosophy Files / Bookworming story pt 3 / draw from dance videos / read it / win Emperor's new groove / Aquila peers at Festival of Britain - Skylon / Wildlife Trust - Children for Change awards / pen friends

 

April 2001 - Vol VII 11 - Chocolate
Animal fact sheet 1 - Boa constrictor / win Jam jar science set / brainfeeder message in a duck with decoder strip at bottom of page / science - emulsions - soap and detergent - lava lamp / census 2001 / applied maths - pure maths - parsecs and parallax angle / chocoholic quiz / meet Becky Chadd wildlife photographer of year 2000 11-14 yrs / win Wildlife photographer book / make Mexican hot chocolate - chilled double thick chocolate milk - curls and leaves - chocolate pizza - rocky road - Easter basket / How far are the stars - parallax - parsecs - colour and brightness / European year of languages / Bookworming story pt 2 / read it

 

March 2001 - Vol VII 10 - Forests
Pen friends / win Tiger Team Mystery books / make mother's day window and stick-on cards / top 10 brightest stars - magnitude - size of Betelgeuse / girls play football / forest maze / how to measure a tree by bending over - follow Forest Code / World Book Day / Bookworming story pt 1 / fractals / Greenfingers challenge - award for schools that brighten up their environment / read it / meet inventor Tony de Rivaz / win Logiblocs / conkers - heart of the national forest

 

February 2001 - Vol VII 9 - Whales and dolphins
Protecting cetaceans - WDCS / win - adopt a dolphin / Konigsberg bridge / pop music - gramophone records - skiffle - charts - rock and roll - swinging sixties / Daniel and killer whales story / make whale and dolphin foil plaques / how to feed a whale - krill - phytoplankton - zooplankton - baleen / Kit gets fit pt 2 / sea monsters in the sky - Cetus and Delphinus - M77 / SETI newspaper comp for schools - RAS / win Planet Zoo / make pancakes - savoury and sweet / read it / Aquila tv series and book / recipes - lamb Shrewsbury - summer fruit salad

 

January 2001 - Vol VII 8 - Transport
Ballooning - Montgolfier brothers - Jacques Charles - Nicholas Robert / win Scootermania / pollution solutions - internal combustion engine - catalytic converter - hydrocarbons - Honda solar car / get fit with Kit - diet do's and don'ts / win Floating Fluttering Flying machines cd - invent transport for Aquila team / read it / science stories - lightning conductors - George III - Benjamin Franklyn / Alien Encounter story / transport board game / ask Annabel - annoying spots / pen friends / International Space Station - space travel - Salyut and Skylab - Mir / 10 things you never knew about Queen Victoria / make wheely wonders - racing car - bus / number games for a journey

 

December 2000 - Vol VII 7 - Snow and ice
Nuremberg Christmas market - prune man - gingerbread / win Quizmaster game / read it / Moving story / ice crystals - clathrates - ice cores / Lambert glacier Antarctica - Endurance being crushed - ice house - Birdseye / win Wonderful world pop-up book / winter star gazing - Pleiades - brown dwarfs - Orion / 9th treasure hunt pt 2 / make Christmas sweets - candycane reindeer - marshmallow kebabs - Christmas parasol - Christmas pudding crispie cake / EB visits Sami people - Lapland / family history detective - genealogy

 

November 2000 - Vol VII 6 - Archaeology
Professor Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie - father of Egyptology - father of pots / win Explorers book of dinosaurs / read it / Niff smells a rat story pt 3 / Viking rune alphabet - rune message on stone / make mosaics / mummies - ice mummies - peat bogs / November night sky / treasure hunt pt 1 / growth rings in trees - dendrochronology / Young Wildlife Photographer of year / carbon dating C14 - multiplication - Russian multiplication / win Ice Age Dig set / just think - Plato's Republic / pen friends

 

October 2000 - Vol VII 5 - Books
J K Rowling / maths - imposition - hexatetraflexagon / stamp out bullying / going dotty message - bookworms on bookshelves with decoder strip at bottom of page / Harvey and Astra talk about sun and earth - aurora borealis - solar wind - Earth's magnetic field - Ulysses - Soho - cluster / make book ends - bookmark / writers' choice - who read what / topic - Lindisfarne gospels - diamond sutra - Harry Potter - Bible - British Library - Book Aid International / win Hex books - finish the story / children's book awards / Niff smells a rat story pt 2 / author Shirley Isherwood in the classroom / win Telling tales / National Children's Book Week

 

September 2000 - Vol VII 4 - Tudor times
Paint portraits / win Science lab sets / taste and smell experiments - taste buds - tongue / Scrapstores / tudor games - football - bearbaiting - cockfighting - wrestling - cudgel play - hoops - knucklebones - hobby horse - windmills - stilts - dolls - cockstride - bucca - backgammon / Niff smells a rat story pt 1 / win Usborne book of art ideas / Hamleys toy consultants / Sydney Olympics / aurora borealis - solar wind / pen friends / cinquains

 

July/Aug 2000 - Vol VII 2/3 - African safari/ships and boats
Animals of Savannah / win Animal ark books / wind and water fun - cascading cups - balloon blasts - cd air hockey / children of western Sahara / make masks - info and ideas / African grasslands / summer star gazing puzzle / Four biggest waterfalls in the world / win - design a cover / Wrong colours story pt 2 / ships & boats - top trumps - nautical terms / school in Fiji / Favourite things - Philippe Delerm / semaphore / super science quiz / digging for treasure -Thomas Stott - Young Archaeologists Club - how to restore a ceramic pot / pen friends / holiday reading / win Red Fox books / make summer food - lemonade - spicy chicken salad - sweet and sour tomato salad - fruit and veg coleslaw - fruit and jelly cubes - hot and cold puddings / No more kissing frogs story / win Funfaxes

 

June 2000 - Vol VII 1 - Food and farming
National Association of Farms for Schools / win Daler-Rowney art materials / giving nature a helping hand - fertilizer - weedkiller - pesticide - organic - genetic modification / play tennis / sunspots / Wrong colours story pt 1 / win Sticky fingers book / Biteback - Ffriends of the Earth campaign for real food / action collage / Donkey Sanctuary Devon / pig pen code / pen friends

 

May 2000 - Vol VI 12 - Sculpture
Totem poles / win calligraphy and Chinese brush art sets / meet model maker Jo Litchfield / prime numbers / ladybirds / 150 years of public libraries / Horse called Sciolto story pt 2 / make carp kite / win Laureate's party book / International Children's Conference / pen friends

 

April 2000 - Vol VI 11 - Medicine
Kit plays football / win Cycle smart goodies / Aquila line - 5 yr old sister keeps shouting / Astra - NEAR (near earth asteroid rendezvous) orbits Eros / Horse called Sciolto story pt 1 / antibiotics - anaesthetics - antiseptics - analgesics - Robert Liston / win Anne Fine books / Edward Jenner - smallpox - vaccination - inoculation - James Phipps / Easter things to make and eat - hot cross buns / children with special needs - how understanding quiz / pen friends / Lucy Keeler on the London Eye

 

March 2000 - Vol VI 10 - Mountains
Mountain people - Andes / brush up spelling - doubling consonants / win Beano brain teaser / ask Dr Annabel - lurching feeling - crossed legs bobbing up and down - headaches / basketball / jazz up your room - interior design - decorating - cushions - walls - pictures / Raptors and sabre-tooths story pt 3 / make mother's day card and envelope / mountain board game / plate tectonics - earthquakes - volcanoes - continents crash - erosion / win football and basketball books / mountains on Moon and Mars - Olympus Mons - Twin Peaks - Pathfinder / finding fossils - petrification - lithification / pen friends / national spring clean 10th birthday

 

February 2000 - Vol VI 9 - Apes and monkeys
Gorilla - orangutan - chimpanzee - bonobe - virunga volcanoes - WWF / win Ant world set / Valentine's day - love poems - Bloomsbury book of / Raptors and sabre-tooths story pt 2 / Chinese new year - dragon / brush up spelling - adding s / Astra - Gemini - zodiac - Castor - Pollux - Cygnus - Deneb - Mercury - Zeus / topic - gibbon - capuchin - squirrel monkey - baboon - owl monkey - macaques - measuring intelligence - brain weight and spinal cord / Chinese paper cuts - peacock / win Edge chronicles books / Aquila line - jealous friend / meet author and illustrator - Paul Stewart - Chris Riddell - Blobheads / Orangutan Foundation / Pet Smile month

 

January 2000 - Vol VI 8 - Machines and robots
Medway robot wars - Wedgehog - Leighviathon / pen friends / Astra - Luna 3 - lunakhods - PSA personal satellite assistant - Sojourner - Polar Lander / win Masters of the elements cd / Raptors and sabre-tooths story pt 1 / Beam balance - fulcrum - lever - wheel - cog - friction - moment - gears / Printing press - Gutenberg - computer - astrolabe - Charles Xavier Thomas - Charles Babbage - Herman Hollerith - James Powers - cranes - watches - LED - LCD - clock - clepsydras - Karel Capek / recycling - Cycler waste watch - 3r's - reduce reuse recycle - Boathouse Farm - Aylesford Newsprint / pendulum / twelfth night - Befana - Epiphany - Gregorian calendar - 12 days lost in 1752 - wassail - fete des rois - galette des rois / make - tidy and sort room - book ends - cd storage / win Read me 2 poem book / RSPCA Animal ark - Young animal carer of the year

 

December 1999 - Vol VI 7 - Look back at 20th century
Pen friends / Millennium Young People's Congress / Hawaii - Peace Child International - book: rescue 2000 / make wild disguises - Harlequin - scarecrow - clown / Aquila line - Jade calls me an alien / meet scientist Susan Greenfield - skin cells - Faraday - electromagnetism - crystals - x-rays - DNA - Alzheimer's - Parkinson's - Royal Institution / Astra - new Planet X - Messenger - Pluto-Kuiper express - Galaxy explorer - genesis - space infrared telescope facility SIRTF / 20th century quiz / win Logiblocs electric city - alarm - lighthouse / 8th treasure hunt pt 2 / Royal Observatory Greenwich - meridian line - international date line / Ruth Mitchell - this moment matters - our world 2000 / win Dorling Kindersley Fantastic Millennium facts book

 

November 1999 - Vol VI 6 - Parliament
Win metal molders and metal magic die cast machines / Dr Annabel - Adam's infected scab / Young Wildlife Photographer of the year / Barpak Nepal aerial ropeway - straw house / 8th treasure hunt pt 1 / fireworks a/w / giants in opposition - Jupiter Saturn - planets - fact files / explosive science - gunpowder - charcoal carbon sulphur potassium nitrate nitre saltpetre - starburst rocket - Roman candle - dynamite - cannon - Alfred Nobel - peace prize / gunpowder treason and plot - Guy Fawkes / win Britannia 100 great stories from history / make advent calendar and table decoration / pen friends / Lucy Keeler at National Portrait Gallery - Horseman studio camera

 

October 1999 - Vol VI 5 - Mystery and horror
Win Sun-day / Moon-day book / UFOs - aliens - flying saucers - close encounters - lenticular cloud / Man who never came back story / slime recipe - dry ice - phosphorescence - fluorescence / vampires - Dracula - werewolf - bigfoot - ghosts - Tutankhamen Tutankhamun - sharpen razor blade / win sea monkeys / pen friends / toads / make gruesome grub - eyeballs - blood - spider's web - hand cake

 

September 1999 - Vol VI 4 - Victorian era
Win Educa detective game puzzles / Charles Darwin - giant tortoise - Galapagos / Willow pattern - dowry - pagoda - Staffordshire potteries / Joseph Lister - Michael Faraday - benzene C6H6 - Charles Lyell - Robert Brown - Charles Babbage - Isambard Brunel / make papier mache tray / Neptune - Herschel - Leviathon - Hubble - Kirchoff - Bunsen - Annie Jump Cannon - Uranus - John Couch Adams - Urbain Le Verrier - Johann Galle / win Harry Potter books / Lonely princess story / Great exhibition - Crystal Palace - coal - toilets - railway - Koh-i-nor diamond - policemen - Liverpool docks - Illustrated London News / meet Brian Patten / pen friends

 

July/August 1999 -  Vol VI 2/3 - Butterflies/Sport on wheels
Butterfly spotting - a/w for orange tip - common blue - red admiral - peacock - large white - swallowtail - meadow fritillary - brimstone - Camberwell beauty / win Butterfly garden kits / Friends and enemies story pt 3 / colour in the butterfly by choosing true or false / Festivals - Glastonbury / sketching and drawing pt 3 - colour / alphabetic sentences / win Mammoth books / emergency first aid - burns scalds - chemical spills - electric shock - 999 - asthma - bike accident - cuts grazes - fainting - choking - epilepsy - drowning / win Spike and Suzy books / Centre for Alternative Technology - greenhouse gas - renewable energy - sustainable / eclipse - diagram of eclipse - path plotted across Europe and India / win Design a cover / mazes - Marlborough maze at Blenheim - labyrinth - unicursal maze at Groombridge Place / mountain biking - skateboarding - inline skating / physical fitness - flexibility - hand speed tapping - sit ups - squat thrusts - how fit - measure pulse / Aquila line - friend of bullied boy - sharing / Friends and enemies story pt 4 / make things that move - Moon buggy cotton reel and candle tank - milk top racers - land yacht / pen friends / first children's laureate - Quentin Blake

 

June 1999 - Vol VI 1 - Europe
Win Pink Panther's passport to peril cd / sketching and drawing pt 2 - tone and shading / mission to Mars - Colin Pillinger interview - Beagle 2 / Children on the Edge - Romanian orphanage - Colin Tourle - eye treatment / Friends and enemies pt 2 / win Boredom busters book / metric measurements - cubits - feet and inches - metres - Delambre and Mechain / CERN - Centre Europeen de la Recherche Nucleaire - ESA - European Laboratory for Particle Physics / make and eat - gazpacho - moussaka - red fruit pudding / ALLEF Association for Learning Languages en Famille / pen friends

 

May 1999 - Vol V 12 -  Music and sound
Win Anthony Ant books / Me and my electric - disabled children tell their stories / climb through a postcard paper cut trick - pull string through your fingers trick - Mobius strip / win One voice and World music cassettes / International Dawn Chorus Day / Friends and enemies story pt 1 / Sketching and drawing pt 1 - outline and contour lines / cling film on basin as drum - slinky experiment - listen through a balloon - lunch box harp - Hoover didgeridoo - nail xylophone - bottle organ / Johannes Kepler - music of spheres / National Centre for Popular Music - Sheffield / Lucy Keeler in Venice - carnival

 

April 1999 - Vol V 11 - Disasters
Pen friends - pen friends in Eastern Europe - Par Avian / geometric smoke rings - tetrahedra - tetrahedron - three sided pyramid ring / impact - collision - asteroid or comet - end of dinosaurs - craters / To the hoot of an owl story pt 4 / Tsunami - tidal wave / Disaster board game - Titanic - Wall Street - smog - hurricane / MV Ocean Defender ex-whaling ship - EarthKind / Aquila line - I have to have packed lunches / win Wildlife mosaic set / meet Elizabeth Laird / Spring science - seeds - germination - bean - tesa - plumule - radicle - cotyledon - bogbean - peat / things to grow - potato planter - bag of nasturtiums / win Wild things books / guide to rabbit breeds from Petplan

 

March 1999 - Vol V 10 - Islands
Pen friends / win swimming kit / island hopping - Raiatea - Bali - Seychelles - Arran - South Uist - Shetlands - Isle of Man - Scilly Isles - Channel Islands - Bahamas - Cayman / Greenland - Inuit / Easter Island - Moai - Orahu - Polynesians / Atlantis - Santorini - Surtsey - coral cays - Scotland rising - south sinking / Print your own card - potato print - carrot print / To the hoot of an owl story pt 3 / Hexagons / win Alpha animals cd

 

February 1999 - Vol V 9 - Cats
Win Simpson's chess set / tigers / paper batik / Orion - Seven Sisters - Pleiades - supergiants / To the hoot of an owl pt 2 / Bastet - Egyptian cat goddess - Ian - moggy - Persian - cheetah - lion - puss-in-boots / win Tabby in the tun books / DNA - human genome project - genes - chromosomes - double helix - genetic engineering / Dr Annabel - winter health - when you have a cold / reader's interview with Joe Scarborough artist / Pet Smile Month

 

January 1999 - Vol V 8 - Architecture
Pen friends / RSPCA Animal ark young animal carer of the year / BG Wildlife photographer of the year / nature's architects - beavers - weaver birds - Cape penduline tit - termites / win Jam Jar Science - taste / Jupiter's moons - Io - Europa - Ganymede - Callisto / Lewis Carroll's codes - alphabet cipher / To the hoot of an owl story pt 1 / Topic - arch - tower - brick - cement - wood - glass - pyramid - column / art - stained glass windows from paper and cellophane / Skyscrapers and bridges - suspension - cantilever - keystone / win Scavenger's tale and Beyond Deepwoods books / Aquila line - veggie diet for wimps? milk allergy / reader's interview with Sandy Ford architect

 

December 1998 - Vol V 7 - Christmas special
Universal declaration of human rights - United Nations - 1948 - stand up for your rights - Peace Child Trust / win Stand up for your rights book / Quarks - baryons / Science books for Christmas / win Art attack cds / 7th treasure hunt pt 2 / make Christmas cards / Christmas around the world - Mexico - Sweden - America - Canada - Australia - Italy - Switzerland / win Dueling dino dig set / Aquila tv serial / Quarks - beginning of time - Wilson and Penzias / Dr Annabel - BCG vaccination / pen friends

 

November 1998 - Vol V 6 - Cinema / tv and video
Win videos - bag of rice - boy who sto