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!

FACTopia! • Follow the trail of crazily connected facts all the way from flowers pretending to be bees to… farting zebras!

WHAT ON EARTH! • Astonishing photos from around the world

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

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

Endurance Athletes • Five animals that are excellent long-distance runners

Speed Merchants

Humanimal! • Discover some of the amazing things that humans and animals share in common in an extract from the brilliant book by Christopher Lloyd.

Love

Grief

Aggression

GAME ON!

Let the fun and games begin… • From Monopoly to Snakes and Ladders, here is a selection of fascinating facts about six endlessly popular games.

CONNECT THE PLANETS

CHANGING ROOMS

HUMANS VS COMPUTERS • The story of how computers beat human board game champions for the first time.

Video games that rule the world! • From Super Mario Bros, to Space Invaders, here is a selection of fascinating facts about the computer games people just can't stop playing.

SUDOKU!

Games Word Search • Can you spot the 12 words connected to the beach hidden in our Sun word search puzzle? One point for each word found.

CUBE IT!

Treasure Hunt! • Can you spot these 38 things hidden in the picture below? Plus, figure out what the 9 hidden letters spell. Clue: it relates to summer. Score 1 point for each hidden thing. 5 for May and 10 for the summer object.

Cards, dominos and more! • From hopscotch to Jenga, here's a selection of fascinating facts about some of the world's favourite games.

FUTOSHIKI!

Picture Quiz • Can you workout what game-related objects you're looking at in these photos?

The history of LEGO! • LEGO is one of the most instantly recognisable and popular toys ever invented. This is the amazing true story of how billions of colourful plastic bricks conquered the world…

Colour it in! • It's time to get creative with your colouring pens and pencils… Score 10 points if you complete the illustration.

Spot the difference

Games Answers

Ask the experts • Readers ask. Experts answer. Send your questions to: info@whatonearth.co.uk

Welcome to the extraordinary underwater world of the… Octopus!

Inside an OCTOPUS!

The What on Earth! Quiz • Test your family's brainpower by playing the What on Earth! Quiz together. Regular readers may have an advantage because some of the facts appeared in previous issues of the magazine. Don't worry if you don't know them all, though – the answers are at the end of the quiz!

Let's make a mini kite! • Discover some of the history of the ancient pastime of kite-flying – then learn how to make a miniature kite of your own!

MAKE A WINDSOCK!

THE FASTEST THINGS IN THE UNIVERSE! • Even though our planet is speeding around the Sun at over 66,480 miles per hour, there are plenty of things that make Earth seem slow by comparison. Here are some of the speediest…

Absolutely Everything! • Each month we feature an amazing story from world history taken from the bestselling book by Christopher Lloyd, with illustrations by Andy Forshaw. This month: an age...