In the latest issue of The Week Junior, children can discover:

🌌 What causes the northern lights.
🍩 Who is said to have invented the ring shape for doughnuts.
📚 Why children's writer Katherine Rundell is celebrating success.

And much more! Out now.

#kidsmagazine

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Help us ensure we answer all the questions children are likely to have when the time comes by sharing thoughts, ideas, suggestions and questions as replies.

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Congratulations to Katherine Rundell and Bloomsbury Kids & YA UK for winning Book of the Year: Children's Fiction for her brilliant fantasy novel, Impossible Creatures, at the #BritishBookAwards #Nibbies #ReadingForPleasure

📚⭐️ Our latest #BookoftheWeek is Nush and the Stolen Emerald by Jasbinder Bilan - I'm meant to be writing..., published by Chicken House.

👑 Bilan told us what her royal inspiration was and where she would go if she could travel through time.

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Bukayo Saka, Arsenal and England footballer, provided this week's #TheySaidIt quote.

Saka will be playing for England in Euro 2024 starting next month and talks about his hunger to succeed. ⚽️🏃‍♂️🏆

Best of luck, Bukayo Saka.

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#EURO2024 #football

Our latest #WordoftheWeek is 'mayor', part of a wide family in English that includes the word majesty. All come from a common ancestor in the Latin magnus (great) and major (greater). Each word relates to something powerful or to someone with an important role.

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🤔 In last week's #BigDebate , we asked if pupils should take time off to protest.

🥁 It was a close one... but most of our readers felt that they should be able to take time out to stand up for something that is important.

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#protest #schools #debate #parenting

In the latest edition of The Week Junior, young people can find out about...

💥 The new adventures of #DoctorWho Doctor Who.
🐁 Why lab mice are misbehaving.
📚 @BookTrust's Writer in Residence Rashmi Sirdeshpande's passion for non-fiction.

Plus, lots and lots more!

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We're thrilled to reveal the cover for The Week Junior Big Book of Knowledge with Bloomsbury Education, out 26 September.

Available for pre-order now.

🐙 Our #WordoftheWeek is 'octopus'. Some people think the plural of octopus is 'octopi' because they think the word is from Latin. It actually comes from Greek, and the plural is 'octopodes'. However, the plural that most people use today is 'octopuses'.

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📚⭐️ Our latest #BookoftheWeek is Ember Spark and the Thunder of Dragons by Abi Elphinstone, published by Simon & Schuster Children's Books.

🖋 Elphinstone tells us about how she comes up with ideas for her stories, her magical creature of choice and more.

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Meet Nomin, a 17-year-old climate activist. Supported by children's charity World Vision Mongolia, Nomin attended #COP28 to discuss the issues faced by young people in Mongolia. In this quote, she inspires other young people to act against climate change.

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In the latest edition of The Week Junior, your children can:

🛰 Learn about the faraway spacecraft that has finally phoned home. #Voyager1
🚇 Dive into a feature marking the 30th anniversary of the #ChannelTunnel .
🌊 Get stuck into a story on coastal mud.

Out now.

ROBOT is one of the few words from Czech to settle in English. Writer Karel Čapek introduced it in R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots), which tells the story of human-like machines performing boring or dangerous tasks. The Czech robota means “forced labour”.🤖

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📚 Our #BookoftheWeek is Miss Cat: The Case of the Curious Canary by Jean-Luc Fromental and Joëlle Jolivet, published by Thames & Hudson 🐈‍⬛🔍

Plus, we interview #ASeriesofUnfortunateEvents author Lemony Snicket 25 years after the publication of #TheBadBeginning .

The inspirational @hannahcockroft features in our latest issue. Hannah Cockroft is a brilliant athlete who is a seven times #Paralympics #champion 🥇

📣 We look forward to cheering ParalympicsGB on Paris 2024 @Paralympics

#Paris2024 #kidsmagazine

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On our #BigDebate page in issue 436 we asked readers whether roads should be closed for play. It was a close one, with 55% thinking that it's best to have safe roads to play in.

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We are beyond excited to be partnering with the Barnes Children's Literature Festival, the UK's largest children's books event, this year on Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 June. 📚🌟

In this week's issue, discover the amazing success stories from this year's #LondonMarathon .🏃‍♀️ Also, we reveal the results of our news survey, where our readers told us all about how they feel about the news.🗞️