Highlights For Children

Product Details

• Format: Magazine
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• Publisher: Highlights for Children
• ASIN: B00008IHFC
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (52 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #84 in Magazines (See Top 100 in Magazines)
  • #2 in Magazines > Children's > Teaching Aides
  • #2 in Magazines > Children's > Educational
  • #2 in Magazines > Family & Parenting > Education
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Customer Reviews

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48 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars excellent resource, August 20, 2006

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bookworm "snerk" (Maine) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Highlights For Children (Magazine)

I enjoyed this magazine as a kid, but then, I also loved Electric Company. Looking at both now, they seem dated and tedious, but perhaps our children need something that moves at a slower pace than everything seems to do now. Neither of my children (5 & 7) enjoyed Highlights at first, but after getting a subscription from their grandmother, they have discovered the joy of curling up in a quiet corner and figuring out the puzzles and stories for themselves. It's a magazine with a style and format that encourages reflection and absorption, rather than a voracious grab and go version of reading, that I believe will give a child a better foundation. "To read without reflection is like eating without digesting" Edmund Burke

86 of 95 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highlights for Children, better than I remember!, February 10, 2003

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Rosita Walz "labec8" (Advance, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Highlights For Children (Magazine)

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!

105 of 121 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gallant Always Orders Magazines for His Children, January 6, 2006

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My Uncle Stu (Atlanta) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Highlights For Children (Magazine)

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.