What on Earth! Magazine

What on Earth! Magazine, published in partnership with Encyclopaedia Britannica, is the UK’s fastest-growing children’s magazine, helping curious kids fall in love with reading, knowledge and learning. Covering all their favourite topics – from space, animals and the natural world, to history, machines and inventions – each issue is bursting with amazing facts, photos, quizzes, puzzles, jokes and more!

SNAP IT! • Astonishing photos from around the world

FACTopia! • Follow the trail of crazily connected facts all the way from robots exploring Mars to… clothes made of old maps!

Eureka! • The latest astonishing discoveries, inventions and scientific breakthroughs.

How to chat… BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEE • Chickadees are small, social birds from the northern United States and Canada. These forest birds make a number of different high-pitched calls that help them reach other members of their flock.

MAP IT

EYE DON'T BELIEVE IT! • Amazing optical illusions that trick your brain…

THE BIG PICTURE!

THE SECRETS OF… CAMOU FLAGE! • From leaf-shaped insects to leopards’ ingenious spots, discover the amazing ways nature's masters of disguise have evolved to hide in plain sight – and even pretend to be other animals!

WORD up! • Your guide to the wonderful world of linguistics and languages. THIS MONTH… vowels!

PUZZLES & GAMES! • Inside this 14-page activity section, you will find quizzes to do, puzzles to solve and fun activities to try. And don't worry if you get stuck – all the answers are on page 38.

ANSWERS

MAGIC IN NUMBERS…

LISTIFIED! • Prepare to be amazed (and amused!) by the unusual facts crammed into these irresistible lists.

Constellations: how we map the stars • Take a look up at the night sky with this constellation map from the brilliant Encyclopedia Infographica, featuring infographics by Valentina D'Efilippo.

THINK DIFFERENT! • Original people who changed the world. This month: inventor Trevor Baylis.

THE BIG QUESTIONS

Send in your photos from World Book Day! • We'd love to see your costumes – plus, if your fancy-dress photo is featured in a future issue of the magazine, you will also win a copy of Gross FACTopia!

What on Earth! Magazine

Jokes & Riddles • Send your name, age and favourite joke to our jokes editor May at jokes@whatonearthmag.com If your joke is featured in a future issue of the magazine, you will WIN a copy of Secret FACTopia!