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Time to get creative! This competition is all about cartooning. I would like you to make a comic strip about any (appropriate!) topic of your choice and send it in to me. I will publish my favourites and reward you with a prize. Try using Bitstrips or one of the sites below.

This competition is so easy, so get at it! One prize for the first correct answer and one prize for the best blog comment of the night.

The Competition:

Look at the photos and give me their first names (no last names please!) and their official title.

My last ‘Face in the Hole’ was too easy but I can remedy that! Tell me the names of both figures in the photo AND their nationalities. Sweet, sweet chocolate to the winner.

This is the first competition of the year. I have merged a photo of a famous person with a famous painting. To win a delicious prize name the person I have merged with the painting and the artist who painted the picture.

Quick quiz time. What are the titles of the films alluded to in the lolcats below? Prizes for the first three correct replies.

I have just read the latest NZ Woman’s Weekly (tragic but true) and the book reviewer Sarah Kate Lynch gave her Timeless Top Ten booklist. Her list is:

1. Angela’s Ashes
2. Bridget Jones’s Diary
3. Chocolat
4. The Wind in the Willows
5. The Denniston Rose
6. The Edmonds Cookery Book
7. The Firm
8. The Horse Whisperer
9. The Lovely Bones
10. The Shipping News

I would only put one of her choices on my list (prize to the first one of you who can guess which one*) - what would be on your list? Post your top ten reads (serious lists only!) and I will raid my prize hamper for all genuine responses.

*Hint -the Edmonds book isn’t a hint.

Hannah has sent in this entry for the ‘Fun with Fruit’ competition that is absolutely amazing. It is on SlideShare but I have added it below. Watch it, you will love it!

A fantastic effort Hannah, you are a born filmmaker!

Here’s a quiz about To Kill a Mockingbird. Identify who is being described in the following quotes:

1. Who is ‘… a deep reader, a mighty deep reader’?
2. Who ‘was all angles and bones: she was near-sighted; she squinted; her hand was wide as a bed slat and twice as hard’?
3. Who ‘was a thin leathery man with colourless eyes’?
4. Who was ‘a chameleon lady who worked in her flower beds in an old straw hat and men’s coveralls…’?
5. Who ‘gathered his meteorological statistics from the Rosetta Stone’?

Post your answers and the first person to get them all correct will win some lovely chocolate…mmm chocolate.

TEARAWAY Magazine is a magazine for young New Zealanders. It’s based around reader contributions, and is distributed nationwide.

TEARAWAY aims to inform, enrich, enthuse and empower young people; to encourage full, productive, enjoyable lives, with respect and care for selves, and others.

Do you want to submit a piece of writing to Tearaway Online?

Then have a look at the guidelines below:

• Tearaway Online is a youth site, so contributors should be aged between 13 and 24.

• Reviews should be no more than 500 words each; the maximum length for other articles is 1000 words.

• A short bio (25-50 words) about yourself is recommended, so the magazine can stick it beneath your article.

• The Tearaway community is all about learning from and encouraging each other, while still (of course) having fun. So if you’re into dissing, cursing, and/or aggro, it’s probably best that you contribute elsewhere!

• Make sure you have read over your work and tidied it up to the best of your ability. Check your paragraphing, punctuation, grammar, spelling, and flow to make sure it reads well. Take a look at other articles on the Tearaway website for an idea of the level of quality expected.

You can write about practically anything that does not go against the above guidelines – whether it is a book, CD, or DVD review, a piece of creative writing, or an essay on a current issue. Stuck for ideas? Just take a look through the site at all the other articles, or – better yet – find a copy of Tearaway Magazine to get a good feel for the content and approach they take.

Link to Tearaway online here.

In each of the images below two movies have been combined into one. Workout what the title of each would-be film would be. For example, the image below is a combination of ‘Dudley Do-Right’ and ‘Do the Right Thing’ so the answer would be “Dudley Do-The-Right-Thing’.

Now you try:

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