Magazines National Geographic Kids
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Rating: - I am so disappointed
I, too, like another reader, had the original World magazine when I was a kid and was looking forward to this magazine for my daughter. It has been an awful experience. It was ordered so she would receive the first issue for her birthday in December, but we did not receive the first issue until April. It is NOTHING like the original magazine and I wouldn't recommend it for anyone.

Not sure why National Geographic went down this path, but it is very much beneath them.

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Rating: - sad excuse for a magazine
I was so disappointed when my son received this and we looked at it together. Over half the pages are dedicated to advertising for junk food, video games, toys, etc. A good third of the pages are "movie reviews" which are really more advertising. What's left are so called articles about inane topics that hardly answer any of the deeper questions kids ask about science and the world around us. A squirrel waterskiing may be funny but not really what I am trying to teach our kids. The pictures and little blurbs don't go into any depth about the subject.
When we grew up we had National Geograhic World and it was wonderful. This is total garbage. You'd be better off sitting down with the adult National Geographic with your kids and talking about the pictures.

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Rating: - Listen to those who are disappointed
I used to love Nat. Geo. World magazine when I was a kid. When I first started teaching, I subscribed to it and it changed over to NG Kids. The amount of advertising and product tie-ins make this magazine unreadable for kids and I stopped my subscription a few years ago. I know they have to have a revenue source, but shouldn't subscriptions cover it? Try Kids Discover, if you want ad free magazines.

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Rating: - Full of ads!
Don't subscribe to this magazine! There are so many other, better magazines out there for kids aged 4-10, like Click, Ask, Muse and Odyssey, all of which my kids (currently 8 and 6) pounce on when they arrive.

I mistakenly assumed NGKids would be similar in content to National Geographic, which I've always loved. It's not -- the amount of each issue that's devoted to advertisements is appalling (the other reviewers who've counted the pages are right). And a lot of the rest is nothing but factoids in garish colors and wildly varying fonts.

This magazine is not an antidote to the short attention spans and superficial treatment of interesting topics that pop culture fosters. It's part of the problem.