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What an honour to guest edit this special ‘Wild’ edition of Scoop. I have spent my life travelling and exploring the wilderness. Crossing oceans, climbing mountains and paddling through rainforests. This issue of Scoop brings a little bit of the wild

The beauty, splendour and sheer mystery of our ocean-going friends the whales have always mesmerized human beings. But very recent research reveals the lengths that they are prepared to go to in order to care for one another. Some scientists describe

Now that spring has finally sprung and the long, cold winter is a thing of the past, it’s time to get outdoors and do some exploring. That’s just what three friends from Iowa, USA, did in 2004. The intrepid but inexperienced palaeontology trio made u

World News - Culture - Literature - Entertainment - Interviews SCOOP MAGAZINE HAS FOR THE FIRST TIME INVITED A GUEST AND A JUNIOR EDITOR TO COME ON BOARD. They tell us, ‘We are so excited to announce that Ben Fogle and Matilda will be part of the te

AS SCOOP’S FIRST EVER JUNIOR EDITOR WE WOULD LOVE TO LEARN A LITTLE ABOUTYOU. CAN YOU TELL US A BIT ABOUT YOUR FAMILY? I have one brother, called Matt, and five sisters named Annabelle, Abi , Alice, Lexi and Jemima (oldest to youngest). I am the 7

NAME: Samuel Whiskers SPECIES: Brown rat Found in The Tale of Samuel Whiskers by Beatrix Potter This much-reviled rodent will steal and eat practically anything. Thoroughly brazen and possessed of limited culinary skills, the shameless pest is nonet

HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH AN IDEA FOR YOUR COMPETITION POEM? I wrote this poem after a holiday back in Poland. The trip reminded me of who I was and I wanted to write something to get my thoughts out. I have to admit, it was raining outside and I mis

Because they look like toys – so pretty in their stripy bills and bright orange feet, so serious in the way they prance about their colonies like little gentlemen in tailcoats with faces like clowns – puffins are our favourite seabirds. But there is

What was the last thing you ate? A pack of crisps, an apple? How did you know it was safe to eat? That it wasn’t rotten and would make you sick? Our super powers of evolution have made the thinking process behind what we eat super lazy. We take how w

Sometimes, after school and at the weekend, I go on mini-adventures with my brother and my little sister. When it’s winter, we walk in the woods and look for animal tracks in the snow, and when it’s summer, we take a tent out into our garden and slee

BY SAMUEL J HALPIN Usborne h £6.99 REVIEW by Ossian, age eight This book is about a girl and a boy who decide to go out and face their fears solving a mystery of children going missing and not coming back. Poppy is a girl whose mother has died