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Word
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Can you get from the The giggler
word at the top to the Q: When is it illegal to be asleep?
word at the bottom of
A: When it’s a kidnapping.
the ladder by changing
one letter to make a Q: What’s the only fruit that’s visible
new word at each step? from space?
A: The grape wall of China.
Q: What are pirates’ clothes made of?
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Did you know?

★ The youngest competitor in the
­ lympics was a 10-year-old called
O
Dimitrios Loundras who won a
bronze medal for
gymnastics at
the 1896 games
in Athens. The
oldest Olympics
BACK competitor was Oscar
Swahn, who was 72 when he took
part in a shooting event at the 1920
games in Antwerp.

Number Book club

sequence A Hero’s Guide to Deadly Dragons,
by Cressida Cowell
Can you work out
I enjoyed this book a lot because it
what comes next in
this sequence? is about vikings and is extremely
funny. There are lots of
2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 ... ­dragons in it and you
can even learn their
For answers see language, dragonese.
tomorrow’s G2 No need to worry
Become a butterfly breede if you don’t know
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dragons, the book
If your parents grow vegetables, they small and dark – sweep will tell you. I rate
probably hate caterpillars eating this off the leaves ­before it it 10/10 as it makes
their cabbages. But these grubs will becomes mouldy. you want to keep
turn into beautiful butterflies called reading the whole
­“cabbage whites”. So why not help Step 4 book. It also has
your parents by removing the caterpil- When the caterpillars are characters that are
lars and rearing them yourself? about 20 days old, they will really alive.
­pupate. The chrysalis is soft at first, Review by Tatum Parden, age 8.
Step 1 then hardens and changes colour. Email a review of your favourite book
Get a fish tank or plastic box, with a After a week, a butterfly will emerge. SIX to g2kids@guardian.co.uk
­secure cover that lets in air, such as ­Handling butterflies damages them, plants
cling film with small holes in it. and it is difficult to keep them in that Yesterday’s answers
­captivity. They will have a much butterflies What am I? Mickey Mouse, Peppa Pig,
Step 2 ­happier life if you take your tank to LOVE . . . Nemo, Shrek
Place the caterpillars with cabbage or a nice spot, open the lid and let them Crack the code Throw in the towel
broccoli leaves in the tank. Keep at fly away. The riddler Tulip
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