ROCK ON , EMILIO
BEE STATISTICS
ASPIRING WRITER
Welcome aboard the good ship , AQUILA NEWS ! It ’ s been an interesting journey back in
time this month as we explored the doomed Titanic voyage – now it ’ s time for
some GOOD news – let ’ s see what you lot have been up to !
ROCK ON , EMILIO
My whole family enjoys your magazine !! I ’ m slightly more imaginative than my fellow subscribers , so I ’ ll say that I ADORE your mag !! It would be amazing if you could do an issue on rock climbing ! I have 20 magazines , and I ’ m proud of my collection !
DID YOU SPOT ?
Hidden within these pages are ten things for you lot to spot – can you find them all ?
1 A yellow canary
2 A dog in a floppy hat
3 A pampered crocodile
4 A hotdog stand
5 A bronze cherub
6 A whistle
7 An old fashioned gramophone
8 A weight lifter
9 A sea spider
From Emilio , age 9 P . S . I have two cats named Mimoso and Malbec
P . P . S . My favourite issue is Spies and Sleuths . P . P . P . S . My siblings are called Maia , Lucy and Noah
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( who was in bed , when we took the photo ).
1 0 A slightly worried looking bell
SUPER SCULPTURE
I made the radial relief sculpture from the
Megamaths issue ( May 2024 ). I added some other origami parts to it , and I ’ m really pleased with it !
From Owen , age 10
BEE STATISTICS
Hi ! My name is Annie and I am reading AQUILA from Dubai . I love flicking through to see everyone ’ s letters and I can ’ t believe I am finally writing one myself . I love your issues and my favourite ones are Dinosaurs ( September 2021 ), Bugs ( March 2021 ), Undersea Explorer ( May 2021 ) and Ice Age ( January 2021 ) – Spies & Sleuths ( October 2023 ) is also cool . I love mushrooms and bees soooooo much and I was wondering if you could do an issue on fabulous fungi . Bees are also endangered all around the world too ; one in every six bee species are regionally extinct ! I can ’ t wait to read the new ‘ Skandar and the Unicorn Thief ’ series book and I hope it reaches Dubai quick . By the way Grace ( if you ’ re reading this ) my best friend loves ‘ Warrior Cats ’! Yet still ‘ Percy Jackson ’ will always be the best .
This is so RADIAL-CAL !
From Annie , age 12 P . S . I want to raise awareness on bees
P . P . S . Bye !
ASPIRING WRITER
I love your magazines ! My first issue was Science of Music ( April 2019 ). I want to say to Olwen , on the back of the Feel Good issue ( Feb
2024 ), that I like archery too ! I love books and I am mid-way through writing my own series about an elf called Hilter-Skilter and a human called Jonathan . They are both adults and Jonathan is fierce tempered . I would give you a sample but you would have to read all five and a half pages to understand it . My fave AQUILAs are Pompeii ( Sept 2022 – I think Pompeii is SO interesting !), Spies & Sleuths ( Oct 2023 ), and Robotics ( Jan 2022 ) ( in order of likeness ). Please do an AQUILA on Ireland , especially Irish mythology . I ’ m Irish and trust me … it ’ s really interesting ! I made the robot from the Artificial Intelligence ( March 2024 ) issue . The three faces are sad , happy and angry .
From Aoibhín ( phonetically ‘ Eeveen ’), age 11 P . S . This wouldn ’ t be an AQUILA letter without a few P . Ss P . P . S . Shout to my friend Lila and my sister
Eloise , who also read AQUILA P . P . P . S . My fave book series are ‘ Murder Most
Unladylike ’ ( by Robin Stevens ) and ‘ Percy Jackson ’ and ‘ Heroes of Olympus ’
( by Rick Riordan ) P . P . P . P . S . My fave bits of AQUILA are Polly and the short stories
Great robot – and I ’ m not just saying that because I ’ m your fave !