Grant and his son have been loving the magazines Click, Cricket, and Ladybug. The poems, stories, and pictures are fantastic, and you don’t get the sense that it’s didactic or trying to force any lessons or morals. If you’re fond of Highlights Magazine, check these out. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Magazines for Kids”
I’ve explained many times that in my house we read a lot, right?
One of the things that we like, actually, for my son is a magazine, or a series of magazines.
Oh, really?
There’s three of these magazines, each one for its own age group, Click, Cricket, and Ladybug.
And I’m kind of hesitating about telling people that this magazine is really great.
Really?
But it really is. The art is beautiful. The poetry is beautiful. The stories are wonderful. The craft projects are interesting. They’ve just kind of really done it all well without being too didactic. You don’t get the sense that they’re trying to jam a lesson or a moral down, you know, down someone’s throat. They’re all really interesting.
We not only subscribe to one of these magazines, we also check them out from the library so we can get back issues.
And it works very well because it’s bite-sized.
The attention span of a child, of course, maybe won’t last throughout a whole book.
But for a magazine, when you’ve got a three- or four-page story, not bad.
And, again, the art.
Beautiful art is so important to a book because the art is, in itself, sparks conversation.
I love this.
So these are Click, Cricket, and Ladybug, these magazines for kids.
Three different magazines.
Yeah.
Good stuff.
I mean, it’s weird.
Why do I feel guilty about recommending a magazine?
I don’t know.
I used to read Golden Magazines when I was growing up.
Oh, man, that was great.
Anybody who read Highlights Magazine as a kid will get the spirit of these magazines as well.
Okay, cool.
Let us know what you’re reading with your kids.
