Learn about cool brands throughout the ages, from the historic Coca Cola brand to today's Apple Inc. Find out all about Brand Beckham, read an interview with a brand designer and discover how to design a cool brand logo, step by step! Learn all about what makes a cool brand and enter our big debate on whether brands equal cool culture or plain greed!


Graffiti art is making an impact on our urban landscape - make sure it's on your radar! Look inside to find out which artists are at the cutting edge of graffiti culture, learn about the different methods of creating urban art and read a star story of a famous graffiti artist! Are you on the radar?

Get the Latin fever! Latin dance is known for its flamboyant and stylish moves, so improve your footwork with sizzling salsa, tango and rumba step-by-steps. Star stories, interviews, real life accounts and a blog featuring a top UK junior dancer will keep you hooked! Find out about the background to Latin dance and culture, exploring the ultimate show dance, the Brazilian carnival. Turn up the heat and get dancing!

Find out all about the buzz on the streets! Learn some cool house steps with Radar's photographic how-to's, read the star story of a famous US dance crew, and a 5-minute interview with a hip, young street dance teacher and choreographer. Learn some cool street dance lingo and read an account of a street dance jam. Find out how street dance started, from its roots in New York city to where it's at today!

Dance Culture: Ice Dancing

by Liz Gogerly

Published 11 August 2011
The glamour and glitz of ice dancing is spicing up the ice on rinks all over the world. Make sure it's on your radar! Look inside to find a blog of a international skating star, a 5-minute interview with a leading coach, a star story of a world famous ice dancing pair, plus plenty of breathtaking lifts, spins and hair-raising jumps! Are you on the radar...?

Dance Culture: Brazilian Dance

by Liz Gogerly

Published 11 August 2011
The amazing mix of martial arts, dance and gravity-defying acrobatics makes capoeira one of today's most fascinating dance styles. Make sure it's on your radar! Look inside to discover step by step guides to some of the popular moves to get you started, learn about the history of this fascinating dance, read an interview with a leading capoeira coach and the real life story of a young capoeirista! Are you on the radar?

The amazing mix of martial arts, dance and gravity-defying acrobatics makes Brazil's capoeira one of today's most fascinating dance styles. Make sure it's on your radar! Discover step-by-step guides to some of the popular moves to get you started, learn about the history of this fascinating Brazilian dance, read an interview with a leading capoeira coach and the real life story of a young capoeirista!

The Radar series delivers streetwise, hot-topic reads for kids aged 9+. With bold, fresh design and topics that have bags of kid-appeal, Radar will encourage children to read - and keep reading!