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HANG ON, QUINCY WAS SUPPOSED TO WELCOME EVERYONE THIS WEEK. HE’S Usually so reliable. where is he?

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live from hq

Quincy...? hmm... where is that mole?

hey, anybody seen QuincY? Where is everybody?

I can’t find anyone! How is this possible?

I’ve never seen hq so empty! everyone has just... vanished.

i know! maybe piErre is showing them something awesome in the fanfare! I’ll check there.

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The fanfare

your art, your creations, your phoenix!

no pierre. that’s strange. but at least the fanfare iS still HERE AND LOOKING GREat! EMILY, YOUR picture iS SUPERB! I JUST LOVE THE EXPRESSION AND CREATIVITY THAT WENT INTO THIS DRAWING. YOUR TOP BANANA CERTIFICATE IS ON THE WAY... as soon as I can find everyone that is.

by Emily Forge

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Marth a Pros se r Amy Tetsel Heidi King

I JUST GOT DISTRACTED READING SAM AND ALEXANDER’S AMAZING FIRST ISSUE OF ‘THE MIDWINtER EXPRESS’! It’s SO GOOD! LOOK AT HEIDI’S BRILLIANT ‘MEET THE TEAM’ PAGE! MARTHA’S ‘TEAM PHOENIX’ iS SO REAL I ALMOST THOUGHT I FOUND everyone. AND I LOVE AMY’S ‘TEAM PHOENIX’, AS IF WE WERE humans.

d n a m a t S n u H r e d Alexan

WE HAVE LOADS OF AMAZING DRAWINGS OF TEAM PHOENIX, BUT WHERE ARE THE real ones? I MEAN, even the pigeon is missing!

send your art to fanfare@thephoenixcomic.co.uk the phoenix comic, 29 beaumont street, oxford, ox1 2np

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Full of friendship and mystery, this book by Elen Caldecott will have you scratching your head as you work out whodunnit.

When Dad has to cancel a holiday just hours before a flight because something’s been stolen from his office, Sylvie and Flora know exactly who to call on to help Dad out.

This is more like it! Us newshounds like to have our brains tested with the odd mystery.

And this book certainly kept me guessing throughout!

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Welcome to the firs Club! We all know tha But where d

£5.99, Bloomsbury Children’s Books

Written by David Baddiel and illustrated by Jim Field, this book sounds like it could contain the key to all your wildest dreams… a Mystery Man sends the twins a video-game controller, which doesn’t work with any of their usual games. But you just wait and see what it does control! Funny and full of adventure, this is a great read!

I found no spelling mistakes, but even better than that, there were footnotes! It was so exciting that I even smiled at one point... and you know how rare that is.

£6.99, HarperCollins Children’s Books

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If you love laughs and adventure, you’ll love this book! Written by Danny Wallace and illustrated throughout by Phoenixer Jamie Littler, it’s got a shadowy figure, an enormous tower, some sinister monsters, huge clanking and thundering metal oddballs, and people who are just like you… but not like you at all. this book make me laugh and it’s also got a parallel world, which means it’s funny AND sciencey! it’s book two in a series, but you don’t have to read book one to understand it!

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st ever Phoenix Book at reading is brilliant, do you start?!

e we come in... we’ll pick four nk you might enjoy! send us your own ve fun reading!

£6.99, Simon & Schuster Children’s Books

Recognise the author? This very talented chap, Robin Etherington, also writes Long Gone Don - so if you like that, you’ll love this.

This hilarious tale is about two boys who love comics, and with the help of their mate Lucy Shufflebottom, the world’s COOLEST girl, they end up on a massive, magical adventure.

Ze book was great, but what was truly magnifique was that the story is all about comics!

We love Robin Etherington at Phoenix HQ and ze artist, Jan Bielecki, iz also a master. Fabugoose!

£5.99, Piccadilly Press

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Bruuuuno! I’m sitting at your desk! I’ve hacked into your computer! helloooo...

...hellooo?

the Ministry of Mistakes the lights are on at the ministry, but nobody’s home. this is getting creepy... ...I really hope and familiar... the antifun hasn’t returned...

spot an error? make it known!

inform Governor Carcass by way of email!

fowlups@thephoenixcomic.co.uk

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answers: (1) A, E, I, P, S; (2) 1=A, 2=I, 3=E, 4=S, 5=P; (3) “MY LOYAL SLAVES! REJOICE! MAKE ALL PREPARATIONS AT ONCE FOR A GRAND CEREMONY! YOUR QUEEN IS TO BE MARRIED THIS VERY DAY!”

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complete it?

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As bruno would say (if he were here...) ”ready... steady...

hey, phoenixers. take your mind off the fact that everyone is missing with the latest puzz-tacle course!

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clue: alex and freddy

the unscrambler

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Q: H _ w f _ r c _ n _ d _g r _ n _ nt _ th _ w _ _ ds?

THE VOWELS ARE MISSING, FILL THEM IN!

fill in the blank

spot all five differences!

word search!

what will bubble to the top this week?

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Bacteria are officially not (always) gross. They are our planet’s first and perhaps most important living organisms. Without them life would be unimaginably different.

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Your body has 10 times as many bacteria cells as it does human cells. In fact, parts of your human cells, including Mitochondria, actually evolved from bacteria.

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Some antibiotics, which are made to kill bacteria, are made from bacteria!

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There are more bacteria on Earth then there are stars in the universe!

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Q: How far can a dog run into the woods?

A: Half way! Because then he’s running out of the woods!

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the phoenix presents LOVE THE PHOENIX? LOOKING FOR MORE? CHECK OUT THE PHOENIX PRESENTS SERIES! THESE INCREDIBLE BOOKS COLLECT SOME OF OUR BEST STORIES EVER! WOO!

www.thephoenixcomic.co.uk/shop meanwhile, at hq...

wait a minute... what’s this doing here? quincy didn’t tell me he was working on a teleporter! I wonder where it leads...?

coo...?

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