Customer Reviews

Highlights For Children

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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

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!

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 Highlights may at times feel outdated and stale (as might the New Yorker), but overall the quality is consistent and there is plenty to enjoy.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.

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

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

My kids love Highlights! It's applicable to both of their age ranges (6 and 9) and is a valuable investment for any parent. I don't know what I would do without this magazine; it keeps them entertained at restaurants and while we travel in the car. Not to mention, it's much cheaper than investing in portable gadgets that are out of date every few months.

Let me start by saying the magazine is great. I tend to order most of my online purchases through Amazon, because I have had very could results, this one however I would have been much better off to have gone through HIGHLIGHTS themselves at [...]. I ordered two magazines, Highlights for children (ages 6-12) and Highlights High Five at the same time - on September 13, 2009. The High Five magazine came as expected in beginning of November. The Highlights for Children did not. I waited and waited (not wanting to give one child something and not the other). In Mid November I called Highlights directly. They said they had never received the order for this magazine. Then I called Amazon. They gave me the Number for Magazine Express whom they sell this through. I called them. The customer service rep was very rude and proceeded to tell me it would be another few weeks for the magazine to be sent - that it could take up to 10 weeks. When asked why Highlights said they had never received the order, they said that it was actually going to be sent in bulk to them, then they would distribute. I then called Highlights again. They said that wasn't the case, all magazines are sent from them. They had received the order for the High Five, and that is why it had been shipped and received already. I then had to send proof via fax that I had paid for both substriptions and when the order had been placed. I did so, then called Amazon back, for I really didn't want to speak with the rude rep at Magazine Express again. Amazon contacted them, and they informed them of the same lies they had told me. I finally received the first issue on December 5,2009 (almost 3 months after the order and 2 issues of High Five later). Amazon service was great (though they are taken in by the lies of this company) and Highlights Magazine was very helpful - They responed to me in a very professional and considerate manner, and I do recommend the magazine, just not through this terrible company that Amazon goes through.

I ordered this as a Christmas gift in the middle of December, with the first issue supposed to be arriving early March. I went back and forth with customer service 3 times between March and April before getting a refund and ordering direct through Highlights. I will not use Amazon's magazine service again.

Recently my family was visiting a relative in the hospital. I spotted the 60th anniversary issue of Highlights for Children. In perusing it I noted how the magazine's style and format had evolved over the years. In showing the magazine to my [...] year old daughter, I realized that Higlights appeal to children had not waned since I was a kid. My daughter simply adored it. She especially liked the riddles. She has asked us to get a subscription, which we will gladly oblige her with come Christmas.

My 6-year-old, who is a fairly advanced reader for her age, loves Highlights...in fact, it's only been in the past 6 months or so that she has really started getting into the magazine. We've been subscribing to it for a year or so, but now that she can read, she can't wait to tear into it when it arrives.