Grumpy (page 7), used to describe a person feeling bad-tempered, is more than 300 years old. It is based on grump, an older word for someone in a bad mood. Both words are onomatopoeic, meaning that they sound like the things or quality they...
5 July 1975 US tennis player Arthur Ashe made history on 5 July 1975 when he became the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title. He beat the previous champion, Jimmy Connors. Although Ashe was already the first black man to win the...
Some of the team went to the London Children’s Literature Festival in Barnes, London, on 27 and 28 June. We had a fantastic time and met some of our readers. In our Make a Magazine session we had our young audience thinking up ideas for the...
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