National Geographic Kids

Love it! (2010-03-11) : 5/5
I love this magazine! So wonderful and educational for kids! Who am I kidding? The adults love it too!
Forget about it! (2010-02-24) : 1/5
Though I looked reviews posted before making decision to order it for a year, I was not quite sure whether comments from subscribers were unbiased. Now, it proves that most reviewers are right!! This magazine is indeed very poor in design. I am very disappointed to how it is presented to children. It is supposed to be fun by reading, but it looks like an agent for video game manufactures! Too many ads are mixed and it sucks!br /br /
Still Terrible (2010-02-16) : 1/5
This is a sorry excuse for a kid's magazine and a crime that it has "National Geographic" associated with its title. We just received this as a gift and are thoroughly disappointed.br /br /"Content" may include video game reviews, a full page spreads about the latest cartoon movie (How To Train Your Dragon in one issue, Alvin and the Chipmunks in another), sensationalized accounts of animal rescue and mostly small factoids with little in-depth information.br /br /What they call content sounds more like an ad. An ad running in the February issue for New Balance shoes reads better than the content! br /br /Pretty much garbage this one.br /br /br /
Don't waste your money (2010-02-06) : 2/5
This kids magazine is not very good and my 5 year old is not very interested in it at all. I am glad I only ordered it for 3 months. Buy something much better like Ladybug or Click. Costs a little more but its worth every penney.It does not have all the advertising mentioned in previous reviews its just a bad magazine.
Shameless (2010-01-05) : 2/5
Having just received the Jan 2010 issue, I'm appalled. Apparently National Geographic Kids is Mr. Hyde to the adult's magazine's Dr. Jekyll. None of what NG has worked hard to establish with their flagship magazine is here. When trying to imagine this magazine, don't think "National Geographic Kids" rather "Cosmo Kids" gives you a better sense of its content: Cheap pandering to its audiences urges with barely an attempt to redeem itself. For example, I'd love to see NG Kids promote films about wildlife to my kids, like IMAX's Under the Sea or Wild Oceans. Instead the wildlife film promoted is the Chimpmunk Squeakquel, complete with Alvin and his buddies in a toilet. I've seen Rob Schneider movies with more dignity.