The Famous Five is a classic series written by Enid Blyton that continues to be loved by children, and as soon as you read a couple you see why.

Ever been playing with your friends at the end of your garden and imagined finding a smuggler’s tunnel or uncovering a secret tunnel in your kitchen? Well, the group of young children (and their dog) known as the ‘Famous Five’ get caught up in these types of adventures every single school holiday!

Luckily enough, you now have a chance to team up with the Famous Five on an adventure of your very own by taking part in our fantastic Famous Five Online Treasure Hunt Competition!

Ahead of the launch of the exciting new-look Famous Five series this August, Fun Kids has joined up with Science Museum, Hodder, National Geographic Kids, and First News to create a fantastic treasure for you to get your hands on!

Click here to find out more about The Famous Five and how to enter the Treasure Hunt Competition

Woody, Buzz and all the gang from Toy Story are coming back onto our screens this month for the release of Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 3 on the 19th July, and Fun Kids have teamed up with them to give away a very special prize!

Woody and Buzz had accepted that their owner Andy would grow up someday, but what happens when that day arrives? In Toy Story 3, Andy is preparing to depart for college, leaving his loyal toys troubled about their uncertain future. Soon Andy’s loyal toys find themselves in day care and having to deal with untamed tots with sticky little fingers who do not play nice!

The creators of the beloved “Toy Story” films re-open the toy box and bring moviegoers back to the delightful world of Woody, Buzz and our favorite gang of toy characters in Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 3.

For more information on Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 3 click here.

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In order to celebrate Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 3 coming out in UK cinemas on 19th July, Fun Kids are giving five lucky people the chance to win an official Toy Story 3 goodie bag!

Each goodie bag is jam-packed full of Toy Story 3 merchandise, including:

• The Toy Story 3 video game for the Nintendo DS
• A colour-change mug
• A notebook
• And lots of fun DS accessories including a Buzz Lightyear spaceship charger for your DS console!

To be in with a chance of winning this toy-tastic prize, click here

Created from the last two drops of steel used to build the Olympic Stadium, sport is at the heart of the mascots’ story.

Along their journey to London 2012, they will travel around the UK, meeting people and learning about all the Olympic and Paralympic sports – always striving to push beyond their personal best.

And you can help choose where they go in a special competition for schools and decide which sports they learn next in an online poll.

Curious about their names?
They are inspired by places at the heart of the UK’s Olympic and Paralympic heritage, Much Wenlock and Stoke Mandeville.

The story of the mascots has been made into an animated film, based on an original story written by Children’s Laureate Michael Morpurgo. Click below to watch the mascots’ film.

Click onto www.london2012.com/mascots to find out more, and read the background to the mascots, including how the names were chosen and their design features.

When her father takes her and her siblings on an outing in his four-flippered submarine, she wishes to see more of the world and swims away but ends up stranded on the shore of a small fishing town

This is a great animated film, featuringthe voices of Cate Blanchett, Noah Cyrus, Matt Damon, Tina Fey, Frankie Jonas, Cloris Leachman, Liam Neeson, Lily Tomlin and Betty White

Find out more at disneypictures/ponyo

He was born in 1812, and was the author of many famous tales, including Oliver and A Christmas Carol was born on this day in 1812.

Find out more at www.dickensmuseum.com.

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The set of four stamps highlights the organisation’s four age groups – the Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and Seniors.  And each of stamp is designed to bring out the sheer enjoyment of being part of the Guides, and displays some of the many activities enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of girls around the UK.

‘We wanted this centenary miniature sheet of stamps to capture the many activities undertaken by Girlguides,’ said Julietta Edgar, head of special stamps at the Royal Mail.

Girlguiding is the largest youth organisation in Britain, with about 550,000 members.

Find out more at www.royalmail.com

• The male mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) or man-ape of equatorial West Africa has an average head and body length of 61-76 cm (24-30 in) and a tail length of 5.2-7.6 cm (2-3 in).
• Males will grow to be about 3 feet tall and will live as long as 25 years, females too will live to be about 20 years old. They do not breed until between 3 and 4 years of age.
• Adult males weigh an average of 25 kg (55 lb), although specimens weighting up to 54 kg (119 lb) and measuring 50.8 cm (20 in) to the shoulder have been known.
• They can weigh in at close to 60 pounds for males and forty pounds for the females who are a great deal smaller.
• The mandrill is also one of the most colourful mammals, recognised by its naked vivid-blue rump, red-striped face and yellow beard.

Mandrills have a very unique olive color to their fur and a very distinct coloration to their backside and face, which grows more pronounced as they get older and reach maturity.  The female’s colors are duller in color but as they come into breeding season the color is more pronounced.

Other facts

• Mandrills live in the rainforest of Gabon and the Congo areas as well as near the equator in Guinea.
• They are very social and live as many other monkeys’ do, in large groups of animals including male’s, females and juveniles and infants. The group is led by a single dominant male who usually remains solitary.
• Mandrills are omnivores, which mean they will eat both vegetation and animal flesh. They forage daily for food, taking insects and small animals as well as vegetation.
• The leopard has a particular liking for Mandrill and is one of the main predators that will take the monkeys.

He visited every Premier League stadium while keeping a football off the ground using all parts of his body except his hands.  He setoff from Fulham’s Craven Cottage at 8am and finished at Tottenham Hotspur’s White Hart Lane stadium around 10pm.

He now hopes to visit every Premier League ground doing his footie tricks – that’s a lot of bouncing!

The ball he used is now going to travel 10,000 miles to Johannesburg in South Africa for the opening of the World Cup.  On its journey, the football will be taken through Europe and 17 African countries.

The ball was hand-stitched in Africa by Alive & Kicking, a UK-based social enterprise that runs stitching factories in Kenya and Zambia. Thousands of leather footballs are stitched and distributed free of charge to underprivileged African children as part of the scheme.  Alive & Kicking director Will Prochaska said: “We’re really excited about Dan’s world record attempt. It’s a fitting way to begin The Ball’s journey to the World Cup in South Africa and we’re very proud that a ball hand-stitched by Alive & Kicking in Kenya will be the centrepiece of this amazing footballing spectacle”.

Dan’s Website: www.danmagness.com

He was only aiming to raise £500, but imagine his excitement when thousands of people donated on after seeing his sponsorship page.

Charlie was sponsored from as far away as Hong Kong and New Zealand, after people read his appeal on the JustGiving website.

Charlie writes online:

“My name is Charlie, I want to do a Sponsored Bike Ride for Haiti because there was a big earthquake and loads of people have lost their lives.  I want to make some money to buy food, water and tents for everyone in Haiti”.

Well done Charlie and please help Charlie raise more for the children in Haiti