Mary Dodge, editor-in-chief of Saint Nicholas, who is regarded as a model of children's magazines, has formulated nine editorial principles for children's magazines, which may be a reference standard for choosing excellent magazines:
1, giving innocent fun to children of all ages.
2. Provide examples of children's happy childhood.
3. Stimulate children's interest in appreciating beautiful art..
4. Cultivate the illusion of children's health.
5. Cultivate children's love for the country, family, nature, truth, goodness and beauty, and sincerity.
6. Prepare for your child's life.
7. Encourage children to develop their ambitions normally.
8. Keep children in touch with the rapidly changing world.
9. Publish children's books acceptable to parents.
The list of magazines recommended today was selected according to the above principles, and made reference to American Parents' Choice Award, American Education and Publishing Association Outstanding Achievement Award, American Library Association Best Children's Magazine Recommendation and "Little Peanut Reading Club" users' recommendation. I hope it is useful to everyone.
In order to meet everyone's different needs, I specially selected two representative chinese magazine and an English magazine for each age group (children, primary school students and middle school students). How to subscribe and use these magazines will be explained in detail at the end of the article.
Suitable for children and kindergarten children.
1, Oriental doll
Oriental Doll was once rated as "National Excellent Children's Book" by the Ministry of Education and recommended to kindergartens and parents. It is also the first children's periodical published overseas in China. There are two issues in a month. The intellectual version is mainly based on original picture books and children's songs, and the picture book version will have imported high-quality picture books every time. Compared with ordinary magazines, this is a children's magazine that you can't bear to throw away. Probably the best children's magazine (children's literature) in China.
2. Little Newton
Little Newton is a famous popular science periodical for children in Taiwan Province Province. He was awarded the "Jinding Award", the highest publishing award in Taiwan Province Province, and won more than 100 honors in the past 20 years. The illustrations in the book are basically hand-painted and original, so choosing a point is easy to arouse children's interest. This is a popular science magazine that is very suitable for kindergarten children to read.
3. Ladybug Interactive Magazine
Ladybug has won many educational awards in the United States, and it is the most recommended monthly reading magazine for children aged 2-6 by parents and teachers. Every issue has interesting stories written for children by famous children writers, exquisite illustrations by famous painters, interesting word games, handicrafts, children's songs and so on. These are the best tools for children's English enlightenment.
Suitable for primary school students
1, highlights of gifted children and teenagers
Highlight magazine is the largest children's magazine in the United States at present, and has won the Outstanding Achievement Award of American Education and Publishing Association. This book for gifted children is an imported Chinese version, which includes children's songs, fairy tales, documentary stories, scientific knowledge, handcrafting, food cooking, comics, photography appreciation and so on. It is a magazine that can make children feel the pleasure of reading and improve their hands-on ability.
2. Global Primary Geography
This magazine is the Chinese version of National Geographic Children's Edition (NG KIDS). NG KIDS is the world's largest popular science magazine for children, with more than 5 million readers worldwide. Its contents include nature, history, science, technology, archaeology and modern literature, which are simultaneously arranged and distributed all over the world. This magazine will definitely open the eyes of children.
3. Spider Child magazine
This magazine won the gold medal in the category of Parents' Choice Award in 20 14. Each issue is 40 pages, and the content is a series of picture book stories. The main characters include Mantis Orpheus, Sam the Caterpillar, Sonia the damselfly, etc. The contents are all created by well-known children's literature writers and painters. These lively and interesting stories can not only stimulate children's interest in reading, but also greatly improve their English reading level.
Suitable for middle school students
1, "Ask you, ask me, explore yourself, red squirrel"
These three magazines are packaged and must be subscribed together.
Ask you, I won 20 1 1 the highest award for children's scientific writing: science news writing award. It spreads the cutting-edge scientific news of global science and technology to children and explores the hottest scientific trends, from robots to rockets, from asteroids to dinosaurs, and everything in the world is included. Each issue selects the topics that children are most interested in and full of curiosity, and the "exclusive news" section specifically introduces the latest and interesting scientific discoveries in the world.
"Exploring Self" won the Silver Award of Parents' Choice Award. It is a comprehensive book combining humanities and science, telling about science, humanities, history and all the interesting things in the world: why do we paint, whether there are gifted children, why do we learn to be grateful, what learning is all about and so on. Help children figure out how the world works, find ways to know and understand the world, and expand their new thinking on the road to growth. This is a magazine full of humanistic care.
The Red Squirrel has won almost all awards awarded to children's literature magazines, such as the Parents' Choice Award, the National Magazine Award, the Golden Lantern Achievement Award of the American Education Association and so on. Amazon. Com is the best-selling children's reference magazine, which originated from the contents of Cricket, a famous American literature and imagination magazine, including novelette serials, short stories, picture books, English reading, fairy tales, historical stories, poems and so on.
Let's just say that if I have a child in junior high school, I will definitely give her one without hesitation!
2. Children's time
The children's edition of Time, a famous American magazine, is divided into four editions according to age, and junior high school students are recommended to read the World Report edition. The content contains more current news, which integrates more complete nature, science, mathematics, sports, history, geography, art and so on. This is not only a reading book for children's English learning, but also a small encyclopedia, providing children with all-encompassing new knowledge of the world.
Subscription method:
The above chinese magazine can be subscribed through the post office or various network magazine subscription platforms.
English magazines and paper magazines can be purchased through a treasure or Haitao. For example, the highlights can be subscribed in official website and mailed directly to China. I personally recommend ordering the electronic version. These magazines can be downloaded for free from the appstore or google play, or purchased in installments (just search for the magazine name). The price is generally 12- 18 yuan/period, which is much more convenient than purchasing or Haitao.
How to get children into the habit of reading?
For children who have not developed reading habits, these magazines are a good choice: first of all, the length of the articles will not be too long, and it will not be too tiring for children to read them themselves or for parents to read them to their children; Secondly, the content is very rich and there are always things that children are interested in. After all, most children want to know something cool, and magazines can easily meet this demand.
However, the formation of any habit cannot be achieved overnight. I suggest you use Kiddo's calendar function, discuss with your children and include reading as a plan in your daily work, and then implement it.
If you want to ensure the smooth progress of "reading", you can also give your children some small rewards appropriately. Kiddo has increased the reward mechanism after completing the task, which is very helpful to promote and improve some behaviors of children.
If you don't have a sister, you can also write these suggestions on paper and stick to it for a while to see the effect. After all, we still hope that more children love reading!