MARLO’ S MESSAGE
What a hearty historical
feast this has been! Now let’ s raise a festive goblet of
hot chocolate and chuck on some Christmas bangers,
it’ s time for AQUILA News!
MARLO’ S MESSAGE
My name is Marlo and I am 12 years old. I love your magazines so much! I get so excited when it comes in the mail and I read it right away. I ' ve only been subscribed for three months, and I ' m already obsessed. My favourite issue is the Greek Myths issue from May 2025. I live in Ontario, Canada. I LOVE soccer. I also love drawing, reading, video games( especially FIFA‘ 23), board games and catching bugs. To Joey, from the Ocean issue,‘ Harry Potter’ and‘ The Hunger Games’ are my two favourite books. Can you please do an issue on soccer or‘ The Hunger Games’? Bye!!!
Thanks, Marlo!
YOU’ VE ONLY
GONE AND WON
From Marlo, age 12
P. S. Pepe is my favourite!
In our World War II edition we had two exciting books from two award-winning authors to give away! Shrapnel Boys by Jenny Pearson and Under a Fire-Red Sky by Geraldine McCaughrean are both set in war-torn London. We had three copies of each title to give away, and to be in with a chance of winning one, all you needed to do was answer this question: What was the British Army’ s‘ Camouflage Experimental Section’ also known as? The answer was b) The Magic Gang! The winners are Lara Hopper from Sheffield, Finn Brunton from Angus, Oliver Chalkley from Exmouth, Isabel Gallo- Glover from Rickmansworth, Radhika Wahal from Radlett and Levi Broadbridge from Isle of Lewis. Congratulations, your books are on their way to you!
HAZEL THE HARPY
Dear AQUILAnauts, I am a new AQUILA fan! My first mag was the one about Greek mythology. I did the quiz and I was a Harpy.
From Hazel, age 9 P. S. Could you do a mag about‘ Harry Potter’ or‘ Wings of Fire’? P. P. S. I have a dog called Obi and Pepe would like him! P. P. P. S. BYE!
P. P. P. P. S. Joking! P. P. P. P. P. S. OK for real now,
BYEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MELODY’ S LIST
Oh my gosh, I have never EVER written to AQUILA before so this is SO exciting
( wow an emoji). OK, let me get this straight, I loooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooove( 41‘ o’ s!) AQUILA!!!! OK, sooooo, I have a billion( a few) things to tell you and a few questions to ask you …
• Polly is my favourite because I love art!
• How come Harvey always looks electrified?
• My favourite colour is pink
• Please make the name of this letter pink? Love Melody, age 9 – keep being great!!!
P. S. I wish for a pet dog P. P. S. No dog comes
P. P. P. S. Goodbye
I always look electrified because I am obsessed with rubbing balloons on my clothing!
First things first – we need a topic! It could be Wombats( who doesn’ t love talking about poo cubes?), it could be Dragons … it could be … Toenails? Maybe not. Send your dream topic to us along with a few sentences about your theme – we can’ t wait to read them! This is your chance to get involved with AQUILA’ s editorial journey and explore your own creativity!
Send your best idea to: takeover @ aquila. co. uk by Tuesday 27 January 2026! Once we have all your amazing suggestions, it’ ll be over to you to vote for the best one!
THE READERS’ TAKEOVER ISSUE IS GO!
In November 2026 we’ re publishing our first ever issue where you lot call the shots!
Please get permission from your parent or guardian
We’ re not legally allowed to produce magazines based on copyrighted works( like Pokémon), so please don’ t beg us for an issue on anything trademarked and risk sending the AQUILA team to copyright jail *
* Regular jail. Copyright jail is not a thing.
AMAZING ACROSTIC
I’ ve made an acrostic poem for you: A is for AQUILA as strong as Godzilla Q is for quizzes and then your brain fizzes U is for upbeat like every activity sheet I is for ideas that conquer all our fears L is for learning by AQUILA page turning A is for Aunty Aquila who saw a crab killer I’ ve just started reading AQUILA and I love it!
B is for brilliant poem, O is for outstanding effort, N is for your nifty rhythm, N is for your nice words,
From Bonnie, age 6
I is for your incredible thoughts and E is for how ecstatic you made us!