Kookie - UK

21/12/2022

We're having a sale — 50% OFF on ALL issues site-wide! Hurry, while stocks last ....

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30/06/2022

OK, here we go! Issue 19 is OUT NOW.

Nina (10) stars on our cover shot by .studio and illustrated by .

Get ready for the summer holidays with 15 brilliant, boredom-busting ideas, plus a super-simple snack-tastic recipe for chocolate peanut butter rice cups (trust us, you're going to LOVE them!).

We've got an inspiring interview with founder Jane ní Dhulchaointigh and we meet three rad girls who are doing their best to change the world for the better, including 7-year-old who has written a book about her experience of alopecia. We've got an original story by illustrated by .amini1995, a new comic by and Yunyu Ong, and an illustrated life story of 12-year-old Sadako Sasaki who inspired a peace movement, by . Kids can learn how to make an origami peace crane like Sadako and share it with the world via .

Just in time for summer, we explore the wondrous world of wasps (they are SO much more than their sting) with , learn all about metal detecting with (and top tips from Ava, 9), and check out the best new book releases with our reader reviews.

PLUS we've got a debate ("should kids be allowed on social media"), embarrassing moments, problems, quizzes, pets and a cool pull-out poster by .

It's a goodie! Get your copy from our shop (link in bio).

Happy reading! 📖

24/03/2022

Here's to spring days and double the fun! Issue 18 is OUT NOW with twin sisters Fatima and Mariam on the cover.

INSIDE, kids can read an *exclusive* Kookie interview with Zara Rutherford, the youngest woman to fly solo around the world .zolo , discover how to grow all kinds of delicious food themselves (with a neat recycling project), explore the weird and wonderful world of water with , follow Ollie's adventures in roller derby in a comic by , meet a talking goat in 's cracking short story illustrated by .chante, get bowled over by bocce, cringe at readers' most embarrassing moments (illustrated by .wood.em), have their say in our debate (is it ever OK to tell a lie?) and learn the HERstory of Annette Kellerman, aquatic adventurer and swimming pioneer, written and illustrated by . PLUS there's a gorgeous poster by to pull out and keep! Thanks to the super talented Suze .studio and for the stunning cover!

If you're a subscriber, your magazine is winging its way to you. If you'd like to subscribe for a tween in your life, head to our website (Link in bio ⬆️)

08/03/2022

"Here's to strong women. May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them."

TBT a few of the girl-powered interviews with amazing women we've featured in Kookie so far ...

🍪 Sasha and Zoe interviewed Darcey Bussell Official in her garden
🍪 Hana and Kenzie discussed writing with author Liz Pichon
🍪 Jess and Clarrie talked space with Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock
🍪 Cathy, Eleni and Mahsin met TV presenter and author Konnie Huq
🍪 Clarrie interviewed Liz Bonnin at the Royal Geographic Society
🍪 Sisters Hannah and Layla got adventurous with Anna McNuff

26/01/2022

QUESTIONS PLEASE!

We've got an amazing interview lined up with Zara Rutherford, the youngest woman to fly solo around the world. At just 19, she completed her five-month journey last week. She flew through typhoons and thunderstorms, landed in some of the world's busiest airports (including JFK in New York) and had to do a major detour to avoid North Korean airspace. In total she clocked up:

🌎 260 flying hours
✈️ 69 stops
🌎 41 countries
✈️ 5 continents
🌎 32,000 miles

We want readers' questions for Zara! Send them to hello[at]kookiemagazine.com by next Tuesday 1st February for the chance to be included in the next issue of the magazine!

Images ©FlyZolo

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-59899980

14/12/2021

Hey, hey, hey, it's the NEW issue with Tabby (10) on the cover ... and it's out now!

So much inspiring, engaging, empowering and entertaining reading inside, including:

🎩 Kookie readers interview with magician Megan Swann Magic
📖 girls' guide to journalling
✨ how to set up your own cool club
🕸️ the wonderful world of spiders
🤸 give unicycling a go with advice from Dita and Circomedia
🐱 brillliant comics and short stories

Shout out to all the readers who wrote in to the magazine with their letters, reviews, pets, problems, pictures and opinions. We LOVE hearing from each and every one of you!

And a BIG BIG thank you to our wonderful contributors — the writers, photographers, illustrators, designers and dreamers who help us bring Kookie together. Cathy, Rachael Smith, Gemma Patience, Danni Belegris, Lylet Soliven, Madeline Karutz, Susie Bowers, Amanda Thomas, Lemon Chicken Por Favor, Yan Yan Candy Ng, Beth McCandlish, and Taylor Bros for printing it all!

SUBSCRIBE for a power girl in your life — head to our website (link in bio ⤴️) It's the Christmas gift that gives all year long! 🎁

10/11/2021

Exciting news!

Our small business (Missprint Media) is a nominee in The Independent Awards announced today, which is so exciting and brilliant... and we need your vote. 😉

The Independent Awards celebrate small business in the UK and all the originality, creativity and positivity they represent.

Can we ask you to vote — and then share this link (perhaps with a few words why people should vote for us) with your friends, family, work colleagues, people you meet on the bus... ! Being a nominee is fantastic recognition of our magazine and an amazing way to spread the word about Kookie and we'd LOVE to make it to the finals. 🤞

Thanks lovely people!

https://holly.co/campaign-christmas-2021/independent-awards/female-founder/ -790809

18/10/2021

We're SO excited about the interview we have lined up for the next issue!

Meet environmental magician Megan Swann Magic, the youngest ever President of The Magic Circle — and the very first woman to hold the title! In fact, until 1991 women couldn't even join the Circle, let alone be president. Go Megan!

While The Magic Circle is built on one rule — members can *never* reveal the secret of their tricks — we're sure Megan will have lots of great insights and ideas to share with our readers.

So we need QUESTIONS! Did Megan always want to be a magician? What was her first magic trick? Who does she admire? How long does it take to learn a really tricky trick? Has anything ever gone really wrong?!

Send your questions to [email protected] by THIS FRIDAY (22nd October) to be included in our next issue.

04/10/2021

Check out our interview with BBC Newsround's newest presenter Shanequa Paris in the latest issue of Kookie.

We loved all our readers' questions — and Shanequa's answers! From her favourite movie and her biggest mistake to her dream interview ... it's all here.

Issue 16 is on sale now. To get a copy or subscribe, head to our website www.kookiemagazine.com

27/09/2021

🥁🥁 DRUM ROLL PLEASE 🥁🥁
Issue 16 is here! With sisters Yasmine (12) and Lina (10) on the cover, this Kookie is jam-packed with smart, girl-powered content from our amazing readers and contributors.
✨ Kookie readers interview Shanequa Paris, BBC Newsround’s newest presenter.
✨ Be an animal champion with advice from Emma Hurst.
✨ Meet Murasaki Shikibu, who wrote the world’s first novel, with Madeleine Karutz .
✨ Explore the magical properties of superstar seaweed with Gemma Patience
✨ Take a ride to a steampunk megacity, in a short story written by Ayesha Uddin and illustrated by Amy Brownlee Illustration
✨ Rise up with Rosie and her cousins in a brilliant comic written by Gayle Kennedy, illustrated by manga artist Queenie Chan - Writer/Artist .
✨ Meet our Rad Girls — Juno (12) who walked the length of New Zealand with her family, the kids who published their own lockdown magazine and 17-year-old climate champion Scarlett Westbrook.
✨ Cover shot by Suze Ross-Hughes Perfect Moments - Fine Art Newborn & Wedding Photography Specialist and illustrated by ViolaWang.
PLUS a free poster from Lily Nie and LOADS more!
Get your copy www.kookiemagazine.co.uk. Subscribers, your magazines are on their way! 🙂

08/07/2021

SHOUT OUT FOR QUESTIONS!
Shanequa Paris is the newest reporter on the BBC Newsround team, having joined during lockdown in 2020. We're so excited that she'll be answering readers' questions for our next issue (and we need your help).

BBC Newsround was one of the world's first television news magazines aimed specifically at kids and has run continuously since 1972. Today the Newsround website attracts more than a million visitors a week and around 750,000 children watch the bulletin every day.

This is your smart cookie's chance to get the insider lowdown on life as a BBC presenter. What's it like to work at Newsround? How did Shanequa get the job? Who would she most like to interview? Ask away — anything and everything!

We can't wait to read your questions! Please send them to us by MONDAY 12th JULY ([email protected]). We'll choose a selection to put to Shanequa in the interview, which will be published (along with the reader's photo) in the September issue.

01/07/2021

Congratulations to author (and Kookie contributor) Elle McNicoll, who has won the Waterstone's Children''s Book Prize for her debut novel, A Kind of Spark, published by Knights Of!

Elle wrote a wonderful short story, Race to the Finish, for Kookie - UK and Kookie - Australia based on characters from her debut novel, which was published in issue 11.

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The author was repeatedly told that no one wanted to read fun books with disabled heroes. Now she has won the £5,000 Waterstones children’s book prize for her debut, A Kind of Spark

24/06/2021

🤸 Issue 15 is here! 🤸

Bronwen, 9, is beaming on our cover, brilliantly captured by photographer Suzanne Ross-Hughes and illustrated by ViolaWang.

INSIDE...
• Kookie readers interview writer and adventurer Alice Morrison
• NEWS FLASH — a kid's guide to reporting the news and publishing it, too by Saffron Howden and Dhana Quinn, authors of ‘Kid Reporter: The secret to breaking news’ from NewSouth Publishing (with some extra tips from the awesome Media Cubs)!
• TRIP OF A LIFETIME, a short story by Kita Mitchell Books illustrated by Hey Chante
• How to Grow a Planet (in six easy steps!) by Annaliese Avery
• COMIC — THE SECRET BEACH by Madeleine Karutz Illustration
• Rad Girls MarineMumbles by Elizabeth Mills , Arabellaloulou , Marvellous Marthy and The Linda Lindas
• GIVE IT A GO roller skating is 'wheelie' fun!
• HERO OF HERSTORY Meet Alice Milliat, founder of the Women's Olympic Games, by Madeleine Karutz
• MAKE IT! Super-simple safety pin bracelets
• DEBATE, do we learn useful subjects in school?
• True Blue: explore one of nature's rarest colours

PLUS! Readers' most embarrassing moments • ASK CATHY problem page • PET PALS • COLOURING PAGE • BOOK REVIEWS • PUZZLES + lots more!

Subscribers' copies will be in the post this week. 📮

Buy a copy or subscribe 🤩
www.kookiemagazine.co.uk

18/06/2021

✨✨✨ Heads up — issue 15 is on its way! ✨✨✨

Shooting the cover was a fun day in the studio with Bronwen, 9, who was all smiles for our brilliant photographer Suze! Can't wait to reveal the results next week. Watch this space ...

07/05/2021

Say hi to our latest Kookie Girl, Sreeja, who lives in Madrid 🇪🇸

Every issue of Kookie features a reader interview from around the world. Sreeja loves playing guitar, inline skating and coding (she's learning JavaScript) and her favourite food is sushi. 🍣

06/04/2021

💬 SHOUT OUT FOR QUESTIONS! 💬

Meet Alice Morrison, adventurer, explorer, and our next Kookie interview!

Alice has been described as an ‘Indiana Jones for girls’. She travels to the furthest places on Earth and walks through its toughest habitats to bear witness to what is happening to the planet as our climate and society change.

She's cycled from Cairo to Cape Town, run the Marathon Des Sables (six marathons across the Sahara in six days) and trekked from the Atlas Mountain to the Atlantic Ocean. Alice has filmed documentaries for the BBC and completed the Everest Trail Race ultra marathon. In 2019, she became the first woman to walk the Draa River in Morocco. All this and a whole lot more!

Kookie readers have the chance to interview Alice for our next issue. 😀

Send your questions to [email protected] by 15th APRIL for a chance to be included in the next issue.

Alice Hunter Morrison Adventures

27/03/2021

Get out the candles, break out the board games and get ready for Earth Hour from 8.30pm tonight. Millions of people around the world will be turning off the lights for an hour to draw attention to the climate crisis (even Big Ben will switch off its lights!)

23/03/2021

IT'S HERE! Issue 14 has Hannah (11) beaming on the cover, photographed by Vicky Baker 📸 and lushly illustrated with all kinds of animal magic by ViolaWang. 🎨

Inside:

😊 Readers interview award-winning designer Lucy Hughes
💡 Brilliant business tips for budding entrepreneurs!
🍄 Discover the mysterious world of fungi (it's fascinating!)
📖 An exciting short story set in Ancient Persia, by Ayesha Uddin and illustrated by Inbal Leitner
🌸 How to make paper flowers
👟 Give breaking a go (with top tips from Bgirl Terra Official)
🎨 'Every word a mess!', a comic by Patricia Amelie Eckerle
🥣 Yummy cake pops recipe
💭 Our 'Hero of herstory' Shakuntala Devi, illustrated by Madeleine Karutz Illustration
➕ Puzzles, pets, debate, quizzes, problems, embarrassing moments and much more ...

Get your copy www.kookiemagazine.co.uk

20/03/2021

This weekend marks the Persian New Year — happy Nowruz!

Here's a sneak peek from issue 14, out next week. 'Irdabama's seal' written by Ayesha Uddin and illustrated by Inbal Leitner, is an exciting story weaving history and fiction, which tells the tale of Freni and her brother who must recover the stolen seal of Irdabama, a wealthy and powerful merchant who lived in Ancient Persia 2,500 years ago.

19/03/2021

Happy Red Nose Day! Since its launch in 1988, Red Nose Day has raised more than £1 billion for charities in the UK and around the world. Dress up in something silly, have a bake sale or make a donation, all to support people living incredibly tough lives.

14/03/2021

Happy Mother's Day!

13/02/2021

When Cora hears that Direspire's mysterious owner is looking for a new Creature Keeper, she knows that caring for magical animals would be the role of her wildest dreams ...
The Creature Keeper by Damaris Young, published by Scholastic, is an exhilarating, edge-of-your-seat story of one brave girl and many wondrous beasts. And we have a copy to GIVE AWAY! 🐉
Comment below and we'll pick a random winner at noon on Monday 15th February.
Stay tuned for more brilliant book giveaways! 📚📚📚

06/02/2021

Milly can't wait to be back at Swan House Ballet School — as a secret school for spies, it's anything but ordinary. When a trip to a Christmas performance of The Nutcracker ends in disaster, Swan House is put on high alert ...
We have a copy of this latest instalment in Helen Lipscombe's Swan House Ballet School Mystery series published by Chicken House to give away to one lucky reader!
Comment below and we'll pick a random winner at noon on Monday 8th February.
Lots more brilliant books to give away so stay tuned ... 📚📚📚

04/02/2021

We love this beautiful exhibition by the photographer Carolyn Mendelsohn on show at Impressions Gallery in Bradford (until March 2021).

'In Between' features a series of powerful portraits made collaboratively with girls aged between 10 and 12, each negotiating the transition to young-adulthood. You can take a virtual tour here
https://www.impressions-gallery.com/event/virtual-exhibition-being-inbetween/

Images .mendelsohn.photography

30/01/2021

The Lake District, 1899. The earl is dead and cruel Cousin Clarence has inherited everything. Twelve-year-old Lady Agatha Asquith is cast out of Gosswater Hall to live in a tiny, tumbledown cottage with a stranger who claims to be her father. Aggie is determined to discover her real identity, but she's not alone in her quest for the truth ...
Lucy's Strange's chilling novel published by Chicken House is a fantastic ghost story — and we have a copy to give to one lucky reader. 👻
Simply comment below and we'll pick a totally random winner at noon on Monday 1st February.
Stay tuned for more brilliant book giveaways soon! 📚📚📚

29/01/2021

Today marks the start of the RSPB Love Nature Big Garden Bird Watch (25-27 Jan). Anyone can take part in this wonderful event, which is the largest wildlife survey in the world! Choose an hour any time over the next three days and whoo-whoo knows what you might see?🦉

27/01/2021

🌊 SHOUT OUT FOR QUESTIONS! 🌊
We're thrilled to be interviewing Lucy Hughes, the winner of the James.Dyson Foundation International Award for her invention of Marinatex, a compostable bioplastic made from organic fish waste that would otherwise end up in landfill. Through diving and marine conservation, Lucy got to see first-hand the negative impact that plastic pollution has had on marine environments and this has been one of the main motivators behind her work as a designer. Lucy is a brilliant example of an inspirational young woman finding practical solutions to the environmental challenges which face us today. 🌍
Every interview in Kookie is reader-led, so we're asking for questions. How did she do it? What inspired her? What is her vision for the future? What's her favourite animal? Ask away! This is a great opportunity to talk about positive ways to make a change in the world so we want to hear what our readers think!
Send us your questions by WEDNESDAY 3rd FEBRUARY. This is a great chance for young readers to see their name, question and photo in the next issue of the magazine (out in March)! Email us: [email protected]

23/01/2021

An epic journey of police chases, storms at sea and unexpected puppies (!), Voyage of the Sparrowhawk is the hilarious new novel by Natasha Farrant, published by Faber Books. It's "like the Secret Seven on steroids, in a good way", according to the Observer. 😉
And we've got a copy to give to one lucky reader!
Simply comment below (maybe tag a friend) and we'll pick a totally random winner at noon on Monday 25th January.
Stay tuned for more great giveaways coming soon. 📚📚📚

21/01/2021

— Our very first interview with the wonderful Dame Darcey Bussell and roving reader-reporters Zoe and Sasha who went along to meet the celebrated dancer (and our favourite Strictly host).
Along with her most embarrassing moment (on stage performing Swan Lake), Darcey shared her greatest fears, her biggest mistake and the best advice she received from her parents.
Every issue of Kookie has a reader-led interview with an inspirational woman and we were so lucky to kick off our inaugural issue with such an incredible talent 🌟

19/01/2021

Congratulations to Evie Swire, who featured in our Activism feature in issue 5. Through her Mary Anning Rocks campaign, Evie has succeeded in raising £70,000 for a statue of the fossil hunter and palaeontologist in her home town of Lyme Regis. 🙌

Crowdfunder led by schoolgirl raises £70,000 for sculpture of pioneering palaeontologist in Lyme Regis, Dorset