Highlights For Children | 
| Publisher: Highlights for Children
List Price: $47.40
Buy New: $29.64
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 149
Format: Magazine Subscription
Type: Trade magazine
Subscription Issues: 12
Subscription Length: 12 Months
Issues Per Year: 12
First Issue Lead Time: 6-10 Weeks
ASIN: B00008IHFC
Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 3 months
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Product Description
Highlights for Children delivers puzzles, science projects, jokes and riddles to challenge young minds, while characters in regular features like Hidden Pictures, The Timbertoes, Goofus and Gallant and the Bear Family, keep children coming back like good friends should.
Abstract
Children's magazine dedicated to developing children's reading skills, knowledge and creativity. Contains games, puzzles, tear-outs, clubs, educational projects for children to age 14.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 19 more reviews...
 Gallant Always Orders Magazines for His Children January 6, 2006
My Uncle Stu (Boston)
127 out of 137 found this review helpful
Highlights magazine is the New Yorker of children's literature. Following that analogy, the Nickelodean Magazine or Disney Princess might be the In Touch Weekly's of children's lit. Highlights may at times feel outdated and stale (as might the New Yorker), but overall the quality is consistent and there is plenty to enjoy. The Hidden Picture puzzle alone is worth the price. If you only know the magazine from schools and doctor's waiting rooms from your childhood, you might not have had the chance to see a pristine Hidden Picture puzzle. The pictures end up getting marked up by kids with poor impulse control and listless parents, the future sociopaths of America, who evidently did not absorb any lessons first from Goofus and Gallant. With Highlights you get no advertising, no slick pandering your children, and you get stories, puzzles, projects, poems, and those lovable Timbertoes.
It's also good just to get magazines for kids in the mail. I find it to be a nice way to encourage reading in my family. Nothing cuter than going through the mail with the kids after which everyone sits down together, in earnest, and flips through their magazine.
Highlights for Children, better than I remember! February 10, 2003
62 out of 69 found this review helpful
I was so excited to find this title on Amazon.com! My kids love this magazine and it's even more fun than when I was little. I still see this in all the doctor offices and now we can have our own copy at home! My children's teachers have recommended this to supplement their reading curriculum. My kids don't sem to notice that they are learning since they are having so much fun. I'll be glad to turn off the TV, the advertisements, and the games each month when my issue arrives. Thanks Highlights!
As Wonderful As Ever October 31, 2005
J. H. Sweet
25 out of 28 found this review helpful
I remember reading Highlights in school and in doctors' waiting rooms when I was a little girl. I believe it is as good today as it was then, and I am impressed that the quality has remained consistent throughout the years. Highlights today has the same kinds of puzzles, crafts, hidden pictures, games, and stories that I enjoyed as a child. The puzzles and games are challenging but not frustrating. And I can't stop smiling when reading the stories. This is great for all ages of kids at heart and, of course, for kids to have fun while learning.
J.H. Sweet, author of The Fairy Chronicles, and former teacher
Sane August 11, 2005
WTA (New England)
23 out of 31 found this review helpful
In an age where material for youngsters invariably catapults into the hyperbolic with "xtreme" graphics, slang, and endless nods to cultural trendiness and commercialism it's nice to see that at least one magazine has remained cool, calm, and collected. This is an excellent publication for those households where ADD, Ridilin, and Prozac are not givens (and they do exist). If your kids can actually sit still for a while and find entertainment in things that require thoughtfulness and attention this is recommended. Yeah, it's "old-fashioned" and some youngsters and parents will certainly find it boring, or lacking in flash or "correct" political indoctrination, but please tell me--aside from the computer "literacy" (what an inappropriate word to use there) that'll be a major asset when job hunting time comes around--what benefits have we seen for our children from this current over-hyped, over-stimulating, and over-marketed culture?
My recommedation as something of an authority on kids and play is this: get a subscription to this magazine BEFORE you have children, then ask yourself how you can raise youngsters who would appreciate it.
Praise to the publisher and editor who decided not to bring in some modern marketing person and trendy art director to "tart-up" the magazine, make it look like every other sucrose-drenched kid's publication. I worked for a huge toy company that went trendy and lost its soul, actually forgot what it did right...and it eventually lost its customers too.
 boring and dated September 16, 2003
Fanny Saudeau (San Juan, PR USA)
18 out of 52 found this review helpful
My son, 6 received this magazine as a present. He never showed any interest in the magazine except for one game where he had to look for hidden objects. The stories did not appeal to him. The magazine did not appeal to me either. I found it very dated graphically. I wouldn't recommend it.
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