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11 FUN FACT
Anthony Victor holds the world record for
having the longest ear hair, at 18.1cm. Eurgh!

Get musical today, with Rastamouse’s guide to writing a

summer song. Keep emailing us at: g2kids@guardian.co.uk

Crossword 1 2 3

Across Down
1 Very long-running 1 Feathered creature 4 5
children’s TV show (4)
(4,5) 2 Opposite of later (7) YOUR JOKE
4 Plant with red 3 Running
stalks often eaten competition held on “Knock, knock”
6

Crossword
with custard (7) sports day (4) “Who’s there?”
6 Travelling by bike 5 David ___ : famous “Cats go …”
(7) footballer (7) 7 8 “Cats go who?”
9 Not as tall (7) 7 Sea creature that “Cats don’t go who, they go meow!”
10 Sport that uses a has pincers (4) 9 Fergus Foord-Jeal, 9
shuttlecock (9) 8 Broad smile (4)

YOUR REVIEW
10
I went to see The Railway Children at
Waterloo Station
in London with my
family. The set was
Can you find the well-known

Say what
phrase hidden in this puzzle. spectacular, all built
It helps if you say out loud around a station
what you can see! platform. They used

you see
a real steam train and
For answers see you really got a good
tomorrow’s G2 feeling of being at a station when a train
thunders through. It also felt like going
back in time to the early 1900s.
Bobby, Peter and Phyllis narrated

How to... Zoomer’s head noddin’

someting like dis: “Ba
a melody and some
lyrics. Keep it simple,
the story as adults and acted as chil-
dren which worked well. They were

write a b da ba da bom bom

bom, ba ba ba di
just sing someting over
da beat. Whatever words
really good actors. Mums and Dads got
a bit emotional at the end when Bobby

reggae bam bam, dum

dum.”
come inna ya head.
Fi real ya gonna mek a
said: “Daddy, my Daddy!”
I rate it 10/10 and really recommend

song  Once dat vibes

kickin’, ya need
to tink about ad-
bad ting good, so jus’ chil-
lax and go wid da flow.
 
it to anybody.
Madeleine McBroom, 9

It’s carnival time, din’ a likkle bit ah Now check out Da Easy Crew
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to get in the mood criss likkle fill
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all da y lo ng .
to get started? Den we drop da beat Worms
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