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17Th September 2020 FOR INTERNAL SCHOOL USE ONLY. For use on projectors and IWBs. Not to be uploaded to school websites. MORE THAN 2.6 MILLION* READERS! NEWS SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT INTERVIEWS PUZZLES COMPETITIONS Issue 743 £2.25 11 – 17 September 2020 THEUK’S ONLY NEWSPAPER FOR CHILDREN THE WONDER OF WORDS 4-PAGE BOOK SPECIAL TOP COOL NEW SPACE RELEASES FACTS *First News readership is 2,626,625. Source: Opinion Matt ers 2020. First News is the widest-read of all children’s publicati ons audited in the UK. First News supports children’s chariti es – see page 20 FOR INTERNAL SCHOOL USE ONLY. For use on projectors and IWBs. Not to be uploaded to school websites. BOOK SPECIAL FirstNews Issue epteber BOOK SPECIAL FirstNews Issue 11 – 17 September 2020 DRAW THE GRAND HIGH WITCH LOOK AT WITCHES are real and they are very, very dangerous… This month, the fi rst AMAZING ever Roald Dahl graphic novel arrives. The Witches: The Graphic Novel been adapted and illustrated by award-winning arti st Pénélope Bagieu. THE STARS! Get ready to see The Witches as you have never seen it before! COEIAN w and-ne . P ys: “I fi rst read The Witches when I was eight years old. I was terrifi ed, The book won’t be out unti l October but we’ve got a and I loved it, and I read it over and over again. I remember being frozen on the spot sneak peek and a very special message from Dara! while reading it. And I thought, wow, so you can have that kind of reacti on with AUTUNAUTUMN is a big month in the world of books, with some fantasti c new a book, which was new. And aft er that, I was a reader.” The Witches: Fs Nws eader r. e’v over e To celebrate her new book and Roald Dahl Story Day, the global When you look up at the night sky, and see the The Graphic these other cool new ti tles you defi nitely want to put on your reading list! celebrati on of Dahl stories on 13 September, Pénélope will show you thousands of twinkling lights, from stars dott ed Novel by how to draw the terrifying Grand High Witch! throughout the universe, do you ever think to yourself, Pénélope Bagieu I wonder, while I’m looking up there, if anyone is looking THE DANGER GANG by Tom Fletcher is out now! back at me? Are they sitti ng in their garden, also looking up at their Tom’s new fi cti on book is full of brilliantly brave constellati ons, their solar system and neighbouring planets, and picking children and magical adventures. out a faintly twinkling light, that has travelled all the way from our sun, R O THAT tar? And if they are out there, what is their planet like? What kind of creatures are they? Can we go and visit them? And if w ak A THE TIME-TRAVELLING CAVEMAN by Terry Pratchett wha av This new collecti on brings together some of the fi rst stories ever And why are there so many questi ons? Surely there must writt en by the late Terry Pratchett , some of which have be some answers at some stage? Surely I can start a single sentence never been published before. 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R O But more exciti ngly, there will be lots of questi ons we don’t have answers for yet, lots of problems we’re only just working out how to solve, and lots and lots of distant worlds we’re only just discovering. INTO THE SPOTLIGHT by Carrie Hope Fletcher And we’ll end up back with the fi rst questi on we started out with: is West End star, vlogger and Tom Fletcher’s sister, Carrie releases somebody, or something, looking right back at you from space? And when Draw her strawberry-shaped her debut children’s novel this month. Based on the famous we look up at the stars, in which directi on should we wave to say hello? Add her ti ny sniff y nose 8 face with round cheeks and a boo Ballet hoes writt en by Noel Streatf eild. Add a chunky Then add two litt le nostrils 7 – perfect for sniffi ng out pointy chin. Add her mouth line R St 5 fringe. 6 the size of pupils. children! like a rounded V under her nose. 2020. Pénélope Bagieu. © RDSC, ons © © Simoné Eusebio. Illustrati Photo OUT OF THIS WORLD! SHOE WARS by Liz Pichon CHEC ooles Liz Pichon’s latest book is her fi rst novel that isn’t about To ates hoe Wars is a zany new adventure starring some of the craziest shoes you’ll ever hear about. T t T R O fr or system you just remember that the ‘Planet solar system starts with the sun ‘Wanderer’. S.U.N. S U N. I’s MACBETH UNITED by Michael Rosen Give the Grand High e usually easy to fi ll in the blanks! What do ou et i ou i haespeare and ootball Make her lips with three Draw the lines of her Now add the rest of her 12 Witch blue hair and fi nd to and further away from his brilliant new boo b ichael osen 9 litt le triangles, two above 10 crumpled neck and the 11 long wig, with lines to a terrifying supernatural green them all the ti me, which O w and one under the lip line. bow of her scarf. show the detail. for her eyes, and there you go! means to our eyes they NASA esti mates that trik E NEVER AND FOREVER by Cressida Cowell lower part of the sky. each day! The gripping fi nale to the Wiards o nce series is ull o ROALD DAHL STORY DAY IS 13 SEPTEMBER AND THERE ARE LOTS OF WAYS TO GET INVOLVED. by Brian J Ritchie ne. Photo Luna Valenti by Artwork aic yster and surprises. Find out ore in our Bi Interview with Cressida on page 20. FOR LOTS OF FANTASTIC IDEAS, VISIT WWW.ROALDDAHL.COM Is Anybody Out There? by Dara Ó Briain R Stember O FOR INTERNAL SCHOOL USE ONLY. For use on projectors and IWBs. Not to be uploaded to school websites. FOR INTERNAL SCHOOL USE ONLY. For use on projectors and IWBs. Not to be uploaded to school websites. BOOK SPECIAL FirstNews Issue 11 – 17 September 2020 LOOK AT THE STARS! AMAZING COEIAN w and-ne . The book won’t be out unti l October but we’ve got a sneak peek and a very special message from Dara! AUTUNAUTUMN is a big month in the world of books, with some fantasti c new Fs Nws eader r. e’v over e When you look up at the night sky, and see the these other cool new ti tles you defi nitely want to put on your reading list! thousands of twinkling lights, from stars dott ed throughout the universe, do you ever think to yourself, I wonder, while I’m looking up there, if anyone is looking THE DANGER GANG by Tom Fletcher back at me? Are they sitti ng in their garden, also looking up at their Tom’s new fi cti on book is full of brilliantly brave constellati ons, their solar system and neighbouring planets, and picking children and magical adventures. out a faintly twinkling light, that has travelled all the way from our sun, R O THAT tar? And if they are out there, what is their planet like? What kind of creatures are they? Can we go and visit them? And if w ak A THE TIME-TRAVELLING CAVEMAN by Terry Pratchett wha av This new collecti on brings together some of the fi rst stories ever And why are there so many questi ons? Surely there must writt en by the late Terry Pratchett , some of which have be some answers at some stage? Surely I can start a single sentence never been published before. in a normal voice before realising halfway through that I have to do a “questi ons” voice and I’m doing that now and my voice is just O w getti ng higher and higher and where is the questi on mark, oh thank heav Yes, there will be questi ons, because this is one of the greatest questi ons ONE HUNDRED STEPS by Captain Sir Tom Moore tha v v .
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