Scoop is a magazine for 7 to 12 year olds that publishes all forms of story, told by world renonwed authors and illustrators including Raymond Briggs, Catherine Johnson, Tom Whipple, Jacqueline Wilson, Chris Priestley, Nicholas Bowling, Laura Dockrill, Emerald Fennell, Celia Rees, Joan Aiken, Tom Stoppard, MG Leonard, Michael Foreman, Piers Torday, Cathy Brett, Neil Gaiman, AF Harrold and John Agard.

Each issue includes short stories, non-fiction, poetry, comics, interviews, reviews, activities and quizzes. We explore everything from punk to painting, from science to poetry, from super-natural phenomena to playwriting!

Dear Scoop readers,

John Blanke

Musa Omusi

Guest Editor Sharna Jackson • High Rise Mystery won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2020. She lives on a boat in Rotterdam.

QUICK FIRE ROUND:

WHAT IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH?

YOUR OWN POWER SLOGAN

CRUZE THE CAT

GRANDAD’S CHAIR

John Blanke

Q&A with MALORIE BLACKMAN • Say hello to Malorie Blackman, best-selling award-winning author and Children’s Laureate from 2013 to 2015!

Reaching Out

A Bright FRIENDSHIP

The Notting Hill Carnival • Scoop reader Amaris has wrtten a story about the day she joined the mas (carnival celebrations) at Notting Hill Carnival.

BLACK CURRICULUM • Have you heard about the Black Curriculum? We talked to Eleshea Williams of The Black Curriculum to find out about this important change-making arts organisation.

PAPER PLANES

Meet Ballet Black • We met Cassa Pancho (top, centre), the founder of Ballet Black sian – a ballet company that celebrates ballet dancers of Black and A descent and is bringing diversity into classical ballet in Britain.

FROM LONDON • Zion and Rainbow tell us about their move from busy West London to a tiny Caribbean island

TO THE GRENADINES

MY BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTEST EXPERIENCE

ATINUKE • Children’s author Atinuke is from both Nigeria and the UK and talks to us about her life and books.

Benjamin Zephaniah • Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah is a British writer, dub poet and Rastafarian. In 2008 he was included in The Times list of Britain’s top fifty post-war writers.

The British (serves 60 million)

Junior Editor NATASHA • Meet our Junior Editor Natasha

BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH

POWER MAP OF BLACK BRITAIN

MEW NAMES

TROPICAL BIRD HUNT!

FOOD TALK

PEANUT SOUP

Lagos Nigeria

London England

SCOOP club • At Scoop Club, we publish your drawings, letters, stories and poems in every issue. Here is some fantastic work from our readers.

BEYOND THE NEXT PAGE

BOOK REVIEWS FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2020 • There’s no better way to learn more about Black lives than through reading stories written by Black British authors from around the country. So here are five books by such authors that go from Victorian Britain to modern London, which will make you laugh, cry and want to backflip if you’re flexible enough. These are great books by great writers that you can enjoy this month and all the other months too!

WHAT'S ON

READER Reviews

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