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You can also start your own debate or respond to letters from other readers (either those shown here or those in your current AQUILA magazine).
Why not write in or email us with your ideas about future AQUILA topics? The Editors start work on your monthly magazine 2-3 months in advance of publication. In 2010 we will be looking at MOSAICS, SCIENCE FICTION, ITALY, SEALS & SEALIONS, SURVIVAL SKILLS, CAVALIERS & ROUNDHEADS, and SPIDERS among other things!
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Dear Aquila,
What’s up with my favourite magazine. I really like it. This is my first time writing. Congratulations to all the people with star letters and who made beautiful poems. Here’s one I wrote myself:
Other Kids
Other kids play in the sun all day,
Other kids shout, other kids pout
But I am different in behaviour and knowledge
Not to mention all the tension inside me
I am different.
Other kids play in the sun all day
But me, Oh no, no I don’t need them
No friends only me. I feel the sun while I run
Away from the shadows because
I am different.
I love AQUILA, even though I only look at Polly Chrome, Ian, the stories, Phoebe and Phillip, Over to you, competitions and Pen Friend Club (I look at Wordworm too). What is manga? Your drawings are great Giselle.
Here is my drawing of the AQUILA family!
Here’s a poem about the mag.
Reading, reading oh what a treat
Especially with something to eat.
AQUILA, AQUILA ready set go
Let me be the first on show.
Reading, reading oh what a treat
Especially with something to eat.
Delightful, spectacular there’s no word to it
Only my eyes straining to do it.
Reading, reading oh what a treat.
From Inky
PS I have 15 AQUILA magazines.
Dear Aquila,
As most of your readers say: “Your magazine is the best ever, I love it!”
How long have you been publishing it for?
Here is a poem that I have written.
Spring Buds open and bloom their spells of blossom,
kicking legs and pointing toes lambs flip and frolic their dainty toes,
Fox cubs jump and leap,
Run and also flip,
An oak tree stretches towards the sky and joins the birds flying by,
Some badgers surround an unconscious rabbit
A hedgerow grows wild as a bramble coils some of its branches.
As you can see I am very interested in poetry and I love writing stories too.
I am home-educated and live in the countryside with my family, with three guinea-pigs called Runa, Rosie, and Molly, one rabbit called Billy-White and five hens and one cockerel.
At the moment one of our black hens has gone broody, the chicks are meant to hatch any day now! They should hatch on my birthday, I will be 8.
I play the cello, and the piano and I am starting to do my grade 1 on the cello.
Does any one else play the cello?
I loved the issue you did on Italy it was really interesting my sister went to Italy two years ago on a music course. I am going to make that Gelato you showed how to make it looks yummy.
From Agnieszka Kolaczynska age 8
Dear Aquila
I really like reading AQUILA. In the next AQUILA please can you do it about reptiles and amphibians because they are my fave animals. I really liked the Winter Olympics in February 2010 and the Canadian grizzly bear – the picture of those two grizzly bears were really cute. Have you ever been skiing before or snow boarding? This winter did you put your bird feeders out for all the birds? If you did, did a lot of birds come to feed? We did and they kept on coming. Are you a member of the RSPB or RSPCA? We are members of the RSPB. Did you remember to do the Big Garden Bird Watch? We didn’t have enough time, but we still did it on Monday. Well, I did it on the bus on the way to school. I just want to thank you for the Christmas Lecture competition in October. I won and it was really good. Also, on that day I was on BBC1 because I got interviewed.
I love AQUILA, even though I only look at Polly Chrome, Ian, the stories, Phoebe and Phillip, Over to you, competitions and Pen Friend Club (I look at Wordworm too). What is manga? Your drawings are great Giselle.
Dear Aquila,