Fun fact

When American astronauts landed on the moon they left behind

footprints and tyre tracks. The next astronaut can walk in the
same footsteps because there is no wind to blow them away.

YOUR JOKE
What’s orange and
sounds like a parrot?
A carrot!
Lydia Ness, 8

YOU AND YOUR PET

Owner Sophie Price
Age 11 
Best hobby Drawing manga and anime 
Best food Chow mein 
Worst habit ­Hands covered in ink 

Pets Ferrets: Barney, Lola and Dilly

(Delilah) 
How to . . . glyphs, which were ­sometimes
based on drawings of objects or
in code! Why not start by writing
your name here?
Age Barney, 11 months; Lola, 2;
Delilah, 2 
have fun the sound of particular words. In Best toy Barney: tunnels/paddling pool
with fact, there may have been several Lola: orange bone/plastic bag

hieroglyphics thousand different hieroglyphs,

each representing a word, letter
•Now try to write the ­following
words – all connected to The Kane
Dilly: tunnels/box of pasta
Best hobby Playing,
or concept. Above is one guide to Chronicles and ancient Egypt – in war dancing, sleeping 
• Hieroglyphics was the writing the equivalent letters of our own ­hieroglyphics: Best food Chicken baby
system used by Ancient ­Egyptians. A to Z. food, mince, ferret food
Some hieroglyphs look like birds pyramid Worst habit ­Making a
or strange creatures, while others •You can use this alphabet to mess, climbing
seem little more than squiggles write anything you like. And mummy hutch door,
– but they would all have meant ­because only people with scratching
something in the time of The the same alphabet can Osiris shoes  
Kane Chronicles. ­understand your
words, it’s a sphinx YOUR REVIEW
• Egyptians used lots great way
of ­different hiero- to write Shabti Snowdonia
For the first week of the Easter holidays
I went to Snowdonia, north Wales. It

NEWS Look out for Rick’s new book, The Throne of Fire (Puffin UK), which is was a great experience, I never thought I
would see so high mountains in England
FLASH out on 3 May. In the second in the Kane Chronicles series, which brings
the Egyptian gods back to life with a vengeance, Carter Kane and his & Wales! It looked like the Alps with all
sister Sadie have to stop the chaos snake Apophis – or the world will the mountainside lakes. One of the days
come to an end. HooRa for the sun god Ra, their secret weapon! it was so windy that the lakes had waves
on them! I would very much recom-
mend staying in this area, especially in

Anagram ar Sudoku
Betws-y-Coed and Bala. It is also fun for
older kids as there is a go-karting circuit.

Se Your maths
Lorenzo Montani, 9
Well done Lorenzo, a Hop EB toy is on

Haprodeti teacher
would be
its way to you!

Yesterday’s answers
so proud
Dipnose of you! Can
Crack the code 1) carrot 2) potato 3) parsnip

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