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National Geographic Kids — October 2009
Animal Fun & Games; Myths Busted; Pumpkin Carving; "Where the Wild Things Are"
Animal Fun & Games at the Zoo — Wild animals lead busy lives, so at zoos around the world teams of dedicated zookeepers work tirelessly to ensure their captive counterparts live equally enriched lives filled with activities and choices that often mimic day-to-day life in the wild. National Geographic Kids travels around the country to see how keepers are providing a taste of home to many of their favorite animal friends. Page 14.
Myths Busted — Many urban myths, made-up tales told as fact, were started to scare people into behaving. But some urban myths have been told so many times that people start believing them. National Geographic Kids asks the experts for the real story behind five urban myths — Swallowed chewing gum takes seven years to digest; turkeys are so dumb that they'll look up during a rainstorm and drown; tapping a soda can keeps it from spraying when you open it; if you don't wash your hair, spiders will live on your head; and fortune cookies come from China — and busts them once and for all. Plus: How to spot an Internet hoax. Page 10.
Family Project: Pumpkin Carving — National Geographic Kids cranks up the carving fun this Halloween. Check out some wildly creative ideas for decorating pumpkins this year, such as: Build a skeleton or snowman by stacking three pumpkins; turn a curvy stem into a funny nose; paint funny faces instead of carving; arrange your jack-o'-lanterns so they're "reacting" to each other; carve kooky Halloween messages to spook trick-or-treaters. Page 28.
Weird But True — National Geographic Kids digs up 10 outrageous facts, including: Before toothpaste was invented, some people cleaned their teeth with charcoal; if humans came in as many sizes as dogs, people would range from 3 to 18 feet tall; in Italy, you can buy fresh pizza from a vending machine; all of today's pet hamsters can be traced back to one hamster family that lived in Syria in 1930. Check out all the Weird But True facts. Page 4.
"Where the Wild Things Are" — National Geographic Kids goes behind the scenes of the new movie "Where the Wild Things Are," based on the book by Maurice Sendak, and discovers some very wild things about the film. Page 12.
City of Bones — Beneath the streets of Paris lies one of the creepiest burial sites in the world. In 1785, centuries of death from the plague, smallpox, war and France's infamous guillotine left the city's cemeteries literally overflowing, putting people at risk of disease. The solution: bury people in the old limestone mines carved under the city. National Geographic Kids explores France's famous catacombs, a maze of shadowy tunnels that contains the bones of nearly 6 million people — stacked and displayed in ghoulish, artistic patterns. Page 24.
National Geographic Kids, a multitopic, photo-driven magazine for 6- to 14-year-olds, empowers its readers by making it fun to learn about the world. Its numerous industry awards include Periodical of the Year in 2005 and 2006 from the Association of Educational Publishers. Published 10 times a year, National Geographic Kids has a circulation of 1.2 million and is available by subscription for $19.95 a year and on newsstands for $4.99 a copy. Its Web site is at kids.nationalgeographic.com.
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Contacts:
Ethan Fried
202-857-7037
efried@ngs.org
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