Magazines

Hi,
Do you have any magazines in your library? Are they geared toward the children? Would you like a list of magazines to choose from? Well, today is your lucky day! I have a list of magazines for you. Some schools choose their magazines through a company that handles missing issues and payment to each. Other schools subscribe through their magazine fundraiser which also helps support the school. You might even check with your local church members and see if they are willing to donate their copies when they are finished with them.

I will not list SDA publications. I hope you are already familiar with them. The SDA magazines also might be donated by someone.

American Girl is a great magazine for your students. It has stories, games, advice, and crafts and the girls will line up to check this out.

The Cricket Magazine Group from Carus Publishing has some wonderful options. They are all $33.95 each for a year’s subscription. You can go to their website and check out all the options for the different age levels. They will also send you sample copies of their magazines if you request them. I would probably avoid Cricket and Cicada simply because of the content at times. For example, Cricket has a theme for the month such as Halloween. There will be games, stories, riddles, folklore, and more. Parts of many of the magazines will be wonderful and other parts will not be appropriate for an Adventist school. Cicada is the literary magazine for teens who love writing and literature. I would request a copy of each of those if you are considering them in your library.

Crinkles magazine takes a theme and focuses on it for the month. A recent month was about North Carolina and has articles about people, places, events and things from North Carolina. There are hands on activities and the articles are aimed at developing critical thinking skills.

Three magazines from Scholastic that we get are Current Health 1, Current Science, and Choices. Current Health has great articles on keeping healthy and drug free, Current Science focuses on science happening now and what we can look for in the future, and Choices is a life skills magazine. The most recent issue has articles on drug abuse, depression, a multiracial family, how volunteering can be fun and rewarding.

Other popular magazines here at Rogers are Sports Illustrated for Kids, Ski, Model Railroader, and Radio Control Car Action. We also have BMX, Popular Science, Ranger Rick, National Geographic Kids, National Geographic, Model Airplane News, Kids Discover, and Consumer Reports. Many of these can be placed in your library by donation.

One word of caution. We look through the ads in the Radio Control Car Action, and similar magazines that are also for adults because they often have ads with scantily clad models. Those ads are removed and then placed on the shelf for check out. This was a small problem for us in the past, and that is our way of handling the problem without canceling the subscription.

This is not a complete list by any means. It is one to get you started. What interests do your students have? There probably is a magazine about it. If you aren’t sure about the magazine, ask for a preview copy or buy one from the newsstand and look it over.

If you have a great magazine that wasn’t featured here, let me know or reply to all to let us know about your great find.

Happy reading!
Audrey