National Geographic Little Kids Magazine
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Anonymous
| Does anyone know of a place in the DC area where I can buy a recent issue of this magazine? I am planning to order a year subscription for a friend's child's birthday, and it would be great if I could give an actual issue of the magazine with the note about the subscription. |
Anonymous
| If you haven't already ordered, i ordered this for my kids and have been totally underwhelmed. The Ranger Rick one is much better. And I love Nat Geo for adults, the Little Kids one is just very...short and thin on content. |
Anonymous
| Thanks, PP. I haven't ordered yet, but was planning to on the recommendation of a friend whose 3 yr old got it as a birthday gift and seems to love it. My other friend's son is also turning 3, so it seemed it might work well for that age? I will look online at the Ranger Rick one as well though. Thanks!! |
Anonymous
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Sorry, I can't answer your question but wanted to say that Nat. Geo Kids is garbage. We subscribe to Nat Geo and love it (8 year old DS reads it) but their Kids edition is overstimulating and disorganized, without a lot of content besides sound bites. I suggest giving the birthday child a subscription to one of the excellent, award-winning CricketMedia magazines, one of the scientific ones tailored to the child's age such as Ask or Muse. They have wonderfully in-depth literary and historical ones as well, and preschool magazines. I don't work for them! All my friends love them and compare them favorably to Nat Geo Kids. Here is the website: http://www.cricketmag.com/ |
Anonymous
Thanks for this suggestion too, PP! I'll look at it as well. |
Anonymous
| My students and my son love Nat. Geo Kids. Some of my reluctant readers can't wait until I bring in a new copy from home. PPs are right about it being short on content but my kids love reading the little "sound bites" about different topics. They are good discussion starters- "Where is Sri Lanka? What's a lantern fish? How do tornadoes start?" |
Anonymous
| My 4 year old got it as a gift. He never even looks at it. |
Anonymous
| Just this week, bought a subscription for my 4 year old nephew. His parents said he was really into the first issue. For future upcoming birthdays, I also bought the same thing for my 5 year old niece, and 'National Geographic Kids" for my 9 year old niece. |
Anonymous
| PP here. Barnes & Noble sells them. |
Anonymous
| My kids loved Nat. Geo. Kids when they were preschool age and under. (They also loved the Cricket series; we still subscribe.) YMMV. |
Anonymous
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My two-and-a-half-year-old loves the Little Kids version. Great photographs, of course, and just enough text for a preschooler, IMO. It comes six times a year, which is about right. They are small enough to stash in a purse and easy to pack for travel.
We also get Hello and Babybug. |
Anonymous
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Maybe the gift shop National Geographic HQ/Museum?
And the Little Kids is much better than the Kids (which has advertisements). |
Anonymous
| ask magazine by cricket is amazing! My 7 and 9 year old love it! |
Anonymous
| My local grocery store carries it, but I agree that it sucks. MIL gave a subscription to my kids as a gift one year and they rarely bothered to look at it. The LOVE Popular Science, though. |
Anonymous
Definitely available at the gift shop. 17th and M. |