Highlights For Children

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Reading and learning become fun for kids when they've got Highlights for Children magazine to entertain and teach them. Every issue is chock full of wholesome, challenging content that gets little minds going, so you can rest assured that the hours your child spends engrossed in the articles, puzzles, and activities is well worth the time. The magazine's philosophy focuses on encouraging kids to become more creative, more sensitive to others, and more able to think for themselves.

From science projects to jokes and puzzles, the content in Highlights for Children magazine will get your child's attention and keep it for longer than you imagined was possible. Kids love to figure out the answers to puzzles and quizzes themselves, making this magazine a departure from the instant-gratification culture often found in modern kid-oriented activities, publications, and apps. Kids can also submit their own art and writing for consideration in a reader-submitted section of the magazine.

Regular features every month in Highlights for Children magazine give kids a sense of familiarity that makes them comfortable even when faced with material that challenges their growing brains. The classic Timbertoes characters appear in every issue, and kids look forward to seeing these favorite friendly faces when they open the magazine cover. The combination of familiarity and new ideas helps kids develop the confidence to try new things and excel at things they've never done before.

Your children deserve engaging content that will excite and inspire them, and Highlights for Children magazine delivers fun articles, activities, and experiences that get your kids excited about learning new things.

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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.

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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 (71 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #97 in Magazines (See Top 100 in Magazines)
  • #1 in Magazines > Children's > Teaching Aides
  • #1 in Magazines > Family & Parenting > Education
  • #2 in Magazines > Children's > Educational
This magazine subscription is provided by Magazine Express, Inc.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

75 of 78 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars excellent resource August 20, 2006

By bookworm

Subscription Term Name:1 year

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

68 of 72 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Beware of unsolicited deliveries of products that you dont order, but will be charged with January 25, 2012

By F E

Subscription Term Name:1 year

The product itself is good and engaging for kids.
However, be wary once your a customer and a client because you will be in their records. Their marketing trick is to keep on sending you "gifts" or packages of more books or puzzles even up to the point that you dont even ask for it. Later on you'll be charged for it for not returning their books (of course you will mistakenly think they were part of your subscription in the first place.) So you will incur charges, even late fees if you dont pay. And cancelling can be a pain too! You will be in their "collection agency" if you don't pay up. Bad customer service!

92 of 101 people found the following review helpful

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

By Rosita Walz

Subscription Term Name:1 year

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!

31 of 31 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars watch out for SCAMS in magazine February 5, 2012

By C. J. Dobbler

Subscription Term Name:1 year

My daughter received a subscription to High Five as a gift. This is a version of the magazine for younger children...from Highlights. She loves it. In one of the magazines, at the back, there was a little scratch game. You had to scratch the pieces and if you had three matches you could win a FREE book and a FREE tote bag. So of course we won. My daughter was very excited and I thought it was pretty cool myself. A couple weeks later we get some Highlights puzzle magazines in the mail...didn't think anything of it. This morning my wife and daughter are having fun doing activities in these magazines and I start to wonder, out loud, why they gave these to us. I start sifting through all the papers and find an invoice that says we owe $2.45 for S&H and $5.49 for one of the puzzle "books" (they're actually magazines)...and a couple more that are "free". Then I come across another piece of paper that informs me that they will send me the "free" tote once I send them the money. This absolutely infuriates and disgusts me. How can they take something fun and innocent and turn it into something ugly. I remember having Highlights when I was a kid! I'm looking for alternative activity books for my daughter as I was planning on continuing the subscription when it ended.

112 of 128 people found the following review helpful

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

By My Uncle Stu VINE™ VOICE

Subscription Term Name:1 year

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.

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars savvy shopping December 3, 2008

By money in my pocket

Subscription Term Name:1 year

This product is $3 cheaper and ships the month it is ordered with a gift card and free calendar on the Highlights Magazine site.

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Unsolicited Magazine Scam - Beware August 4, 2012

By Anna W

Subscription Term Name:1 year

Last year, I had received several of the Highlights Puzzlemania magazines which all ended up in trash as I took those materials as unsolicited advertising. Shortly after, I kept receiving invoices for those thrown-away materials. I kept calling the Customer Service and requested my name and address to be removed from their mailing lists. Eventually paid the hideous charges to be over with that scam. But it was a short-lived relief....until this year...when I received an invoice for another magazine "Top Secret Advantage" again from Highlights claiming I had received one of their magazines. I do not have that magazine as it likely ended up in trash along with some other advertising. As a result, I cannot send it back to void the invoice. I had emailed their customer service a week ago again requesting my name and addressed removed from their mailing list but no response. I had tried to call them on Saturday but of course they only "work" in the most customer inconvenient business hours and never on the weekends.