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Cover for Luna and Simon - Peculiar Plasmids and Bizarre Bacteria. Luna an 8-year old girl is dressed as a bacterium, beside her concerned looking brother Simon. Around them we see scenes of swarming bacteria and Luna-like bacteria multiplying.

Download Luna and Simon: Peculiar Plasmids and Bizarre Bacteria (20MB)

Join Luna and her sulky brother Simon on a journey into the weird and wonderful world of microbes. Read about the diversity of bacterial life, and the strange ways in which microbes continue to evolve and change our world.

Cover for Luna & Simon: Night of the Killer Phage! A group shot of Luna, her big brother Simon, and friends who are dressed as menacing bacteria. Around them alien-spider-looking bacteriophage swarm towards them.

Download Luna and Simon: Night of the Killer Phage! (20MB)

It’s Hallowe’en night and Luna and her sulky brother Simon are out trick or treating. But when their sweetie-swiping trick gets out of hand, they turn to the fascinating power of Phages to save the day.

Cover for the comic Luna & Simon: Phage Invaders. We see a 8 year old girl running excitedly towards the camera. Her 14 year old brother follows looking back concerned. Behind them alien-spider-looking bacteriophages descend upon them.

Download Luna and Simon: Phage Invaders! (20MB)

Luna and Simon shrink down to explore the hidden battle between bacteria and their invisible invaders, phage! Using scissors, selfies and super-sized panic buttons, they race against time to uncover the secrets of this microscopic war. Can they help save the day?

We see 8-year old Luna in a labcoat looking down a microscope, below is a blue notebook and pencil, with space for someone to design their own bacterium.

Download Design Your Own Bacterium Activity

To download and print at home. Design your own weird and wonderful bacterium.

A template to build your own polyhedral paper phage. The image is a simple black and white template with labelled 'Capsid' and 'Tail' sections.

Download Paper Phage Activity

To download and print at home. A guide and template for making your own paper bacteriophage, just like Luna and Simon do in Night of the Killer Phage!

Make Your Own Luna Paper Doll. The image shows an cartoon drawing of an 8-year old girl dressed as a bacterium, surrounded by accessories like a sword, balloon and bike pump to represent different bacterial tools.

Download Luna Paper Doll Activity

To download and print at home. Help Luna improve her bacterium costume by equipping her with different traits. See how these traits help real bacteria!

A page of black linework comic imagery from Luna and Simon. We see Luna and Simon in a UFO shaped ship inside the body, exploring a bacterial root node, looking down microscopes and riding on snake like bacteria.

Download Colouring In Activity

Colour in our special Luna and Simon Poster!

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