Editor’s Note

As the saying goes, “a picture is worth a thousand words”. Here at CC Kids, we have always used pictures to bring our stories to life, but this year we are proud to experiment with two new ways to tell stories with images. Dewey Pretorious’ colourful ‘Prehistoric water world’ is the first of these—not only in the sense of occurring earlier in the magazine, but also in the sense of being our first-ever art submission in the Emerging Voices category. The second is Shruti Pawar’s ‘Eyes in the cornfield’, the winner of our inaugural wordless story contest.

Of course, all our issues are bursting with art, so you will also find beautiful illustrations to ‘paint a picture’ of a wide selection of species, including insects (such as fireflies and cotton stainers), birds (such as storks), and primates (such as gibbons, leaf monkeys, and, of course, humans!). We’ve also got some pieces that look at the ‘big picture’ in conservation, including Erica Chester’s ‘And the award goes to…’. Thanks to all these great submissions, we think this issue is ‘as pretty as a picture’—and we hope you agree!

– Caitlin Kight and Payal Bal