Highlights Magazine

Clark, C.F., Ed. (2010, May). Highlights for Children, 65(5).

Genre: Informational/Fiction
Format: Magazine
Age Recommendation: 6-12 years

Ah, sweet memories. Highlights for Children is just as delightful as I remember it. The magazine is not just any magazine, but serves a higher purpose of both educating children and teaching them proper behavior. Throughout the magazine were scattered several short stories and poems, one which featured the topic of new step-siblings learning to get along. Also scattered throughout were blurbs created purely for entertainment value, such as comics, games, crafts, jokes, and reader art. Yes, the classic favorite are still there. I can't even express how ecstatic I was to see hidden pictures, The Timbertoes comic strip, and the reader art splayed across the pages. It just goes to show that the greatest of things can outlast time. The crafts were just as exciting too, as there were so many things to make. Kids could make a shoebox puppet theater and accompanying cardboard tube puppets, a braided bracelet, a may basket, and a puppy dog made out of beans. I would recommend this magazine for kids ages 6-12 years, as kids first of all need to have a reading ability. There are so many topics and activities scattered throughout that kids will no doubt be entertained and at the same time both education and a positive morality will be enstilled within them. I would have recommended Highlights as a child, and now I'm recommending it as an adult. Teachers, librarians, parents...subscribe! You won't regret it!

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