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11 FUN FACT
The moon gets further from the earth by 1cm a year. Most kids grow
5cm a year. So you’re closer to the moon now than when you were born!

Keep sending your tips, jokes, reviews and pet profiles to

g2kids@guardian.co.uk and don’t forget the story comp!

Wordsearch
Can you find the farm animals in the grid?
They could be hidden horizontally, vertically
or diagonally in any direction.

Chicken S S P I G N V Y W
Cow
Duck M U E A P O T I M YOUR JOKE
Goat Why did the banana go to the doctor’s?
Goose D U C K P E A X J Because he wasn’t peeling well!
SuperBen, 4½
Horse
Pig G Q G O O S E T B YOU AND YOUR PET
Pony
Rabbit R A N E K C I H C Imagine the sleekest, shiniest, and
Sheep most handsome seal-brown hamster.
Now, this is probably the excact image
P Y L E F B W O S of my beautiful hamster Jasper!

Number T O C L B A W R B
Name Jasper. Jazzy for short!
Age 6 months

sequence W Z K A P N D S N
Favourite foods Melon and rocket
Likes Melon, cuddles and his
Can you work out what number comes next? cardboard castle
Dislikes Broccoli, my guitar
1...2...4...7...11...16...22...? E M R K T E P E W playing and loud noises
For answers see tomorrow’s G2 What we have in common We
both have fun . . . and we love
Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson series, bananas!
NEWS has a new Kane Chronicles book out next month – Morgan Colette Forder Parden, 11
FLASH Throne of Fire. And G2 Kids readers can interview him.
If you have a question for Rick, email it to childrens.books@guardian.co.uk
with ‘Rick Q’ in the subject line and we’ll ask him the best ones.
YOUR REVIEW
Rebel, by R J Anderson

How to... Tortoiseshells

This delightful book is a charm to
read with lots of excit-

make a make a
habitat
and Peacock
­butterflies. Cab-
terflies feed on
plants and flower
ing action. The tale
follows a fairy called

butterfly Find a sunny

spot. Butterflies
bages and other
vegetables will
nectar, but many,
such as the Owl
Linden and a ­human
boy called Timothy as

garden like bright sunny

patches with lots
attract Cabbage
White butterflies,
butterfly, find
fruit delicious.
they fight for justice
for British fairies and
of flowers and while long grasses to win back the magic
This week, the long grass. Your and wild flowers taking taken hundreds of years
Natural History garden doesn’t are a good food care of ago by the evil empress. To
Museum in London have to be big, source for brown your but- do this they must find the
opened its Sensa- but you should butterfly species terflies Plant Rhys Dwfen – but can
tional Butterflies plant a variety and caterpillars. Put one or two of they do it? As said by the writer, this is
exhibition with of different your butterflies’ no ­ordinary fairy tale . . .
the chance to get flowers. favourite plants Megan Lee, 10
up close to the beautiful creatures in in a dark, shady A set of Mission: Explore books by
an outdoor butterfly house. But don’t what to area of your gar- the ­Geography Collective is on its way
worry if you can’t get there - they’ve plant den. This will to you, Megan
given us their top tips on how to grow Buddleias and make a desir-
your own butterfly garden. dandelions will able area to Yesterday’s answers
Word wheel: Possible words include: bet, brute,
always help to encourage burp, but, butt, butter, buttercup, cub, cube, curb,
attract butter- butterflies to lay pub, rebut, rub, rut, tub, tube, tuber
flies. Lavender other eggs and hang E A S T E R E G G
and oregano ways to their chrysalis. E Y R
are delicious to tempt R O M A N C E A
Sensational Butterflies at E C E N
many butterflies Put some ripe
puzzles by clarity media

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the Natural History ­Museum

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