TY - JOUR T1 - Highlights from this issue JF - Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition JO - Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed SP - 281 LP - 281 DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2017-314368 VL - 102 IS - 6 AU - Ian Wacogne Y1 - 2017/12/01 UR - http://ep.bmj.com/content/102/6/281.abstract N2 - Welcome to a slightly different issue of E&P. There are a lot of additional considerations for editing when you decide you’re going to ask authors to aim for a more quirky edition. I’ll tell you the two main ones. The first is whether the authors of the more serious papers are going to take offence at being included alongside slightly lighter hearted ones. I have to tell you that I’ve not contacted all of the authors here to check that they’re OK with this; what I was able to do instead was ensure that the quirkier papers we did have were good enough to stand alone—I hope you agree. I do hope the non-quirky authors are OK with this.The second important consideration was: What makes a good quirky paper? Our much bigger sibling, the BMJ, has a seasonal edition, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a formal setting out … ER -