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Hi, guys - Ricky here with your views on top books coming up. Plus, | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
those mega maggots here on Newsround. | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
Let's start with something that affects some of the decisions you | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
make without you even realising. I'm talking book covers because one of | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
the UK's leading children's authors has criticised publishers for making | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
covers specifically targeting boys or girls. Here's what she means. | :00:24. | :00:35. | |
Where you have the brilliant book for boys and robots and dinosaurs | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
and dragons and pirates on the cover. And we have a book for girls, | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
pink and fluffy and glittery and flowers and make up. I have a | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
problem with those books, it is wrong because you are excluding half | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
of the population. Well, we wanted to know how much | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
different covers influence your choice of books so we sent Nel to | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
find out. My experiment is nearly ready. I | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
have some books which are pink and sparkly and ones that are meant to | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
appeal to boys. Let's see which ones they go for. Come on, guys. First | :01:10. | :01:20. | |
one in. I would not read it if it had flowers on it. Girls are into | :01:21. | :01:28. | |
different things. The books didn't get my attention, even though they | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
were colourful. I chose this book because I like the title. The colour | :01:34. | :01:41. | |
put me off a bit. I like blue. A mixed response from these guys. | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
Publishers are the people who get books onto the shelves so what do | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
they say about books for boys and girls? When people publish books, | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
they tried to make it easier for parents to know what they will get. | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
People should look for good books for girls and boys. Next time you | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
choose a book, you might be less likely to judge it by its cover. | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
Look away now if you're eating your tea because scientists are kicking | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
off a big study which could see maggots like these fuel cars in the | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
future. The three-year study will see them farm billions of flies and | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
turn their maggots into animal feed or even diesel fuel. It's not clear | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
how much fuel that's produced this way could actually be used but the | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
people behind it say they're hopeful. | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
The potential for exploiting flies normally considered a pest for the | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
benefit of society is huge. Finally - this is the Empire State | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
building - one of New York City's tallest buildings, and this is a car | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
parked on the top floor. How did it get there? Well, it was taken apart | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
and whisked up the lift to the observation deck before being put | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
back together overnight. It's all to mark 50 years since this model was | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
first released. There's more on that and much more on the Newsround | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
website. We're back tomorrow. | :02:59. | :03:01. |