Spider Magazine

Pros: Excellent material, well designed and illustrated.

Cons: none

The Bottom Line: This is a terrific and mostly timeless magazine for kids who like to read or those who need a little help.

Review:
Spider magazine is designed for the 6 to 9 set and is one of the family of magazines that also features Babybug, Ladybug and Cricket.

This series of magazines does well at covering its bases, meaning all of them stretch a bit into...

Pros: colorful, complete stories, beautiful pictures

Cons: not a con but LOTS of words/reading

The Bottom Line: A great choice for mail for your younger child. Worth keeping rather than recycling.

Review: Each year we have the request from friends and family to renew or purchase magazines through their school. The fundraisers are what result in my having a 5 year backlog of renewals for periodicals like Midwest Living or Shape (which ...

Pros: Easy to read, intelligent, funny, games, jokes, riddles

Cons: too short? Comes once a month?

Review: This has to be one of the greatest magazines out there for kids today. Chock-full of stories for the young reader, games, jokes and riddles about. Not to mention the running cartoon at the bottom of the pages.
When I was young, my mom bought me...