Artful Blogging – Magazine Review

If you have a blog, or you’ve ever thought about starting one, you should take at look at the Artful Blogging: Visually Inspiring Online Journals magazine. I promise it will inspire your blogging and your creative impulses. The magazine talks about the importance of blogging, about how it makes you pay attention to your day and your life, about how you start noticing things you might have glance over before. Artful Blogging highlights truly creative blogs. Each blog gets a few page spread, along with color photos from their blog entries, and often the stories behind why the blogger started … Continue reading →

Cloth Paper Scissors – Magazine Review

Cloth Paper Scissors is a unique and creative magazine that makes me drool. Published six times a year by Interweave Press, it is a magazine devoted to collage, mixed media, and artistic discovery. The magazine covers many types of fiber arts and collage including altered books, art dolls, visual art journal, rubber stamping, and assemblage. The featured crafts are truly works of art. Even though are beyond anything I am doing, I still learn a great deal from this publication. They cover a lot of basic techniques like glazing, how to sew on paper, and how to use rubber stamps … Continue reading →

The Week

Around here we don’t have a lot of time to stay current on the news. About a year ago my husband subscribed to weekly news magazine The Week. This news magazine bills itself at being “the best of the U.S. and International media” as well as being “all you need to know about everything that matters.” My husband likes that the larger articles give more than one side to a story. He likes that it covers all the current news topics in condensed form, and that it covers national and national news. You can read The Week in less time … Continue reading →

Plays: The Drama Magazine for Young People

PLAYS, The Drama Magazine for Young People is published seven times year. A year subscription costs $39.00, which comes out to be $5.57 an issue. Each issue contains eight to ten plays. Plays for lower, middle and upper grades are included with each issue. All the plays are royalty free. Sometimes the plays are short skits or spoofs. The December issues have holiday themed plays. Other issues may have patriotic plays, folk tales, fairy tales, myths, melodramas, puppet plays, or plays based on historical events. Plays for upper grades are often dramatized classic stories from authors like Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, … Continue reading →

Twins Magazine – Magazine Review

One of the first things I did, once I found out I was expecting twins, was to order Twins Magazine. Twins Magazine has been around since 1984 and is published six times a year. The magazine focuses on multiple births, not only twins but triplets and even higher. I was so grateful to find a magazine geared toward multiples. I had a four year old and had learned a lot about parenting through other parent magazines. But those magazines didn’t cover twins. I didn’t know anyone with twins. I wasn’t sure I could manage two infants at the same time. … Continue reading →

Boys’ Life Magazine

Boys’ Life Magazine is specifically published for the Boy Scouts of America, but you don’t have to be a Boy Scout to receive it. You can subscribe for a year (12 issues) for the price of $24.00. However, if you are a Scout, you get a discounted subscription rate through your local chapter. This magazine is a lot of fun. Using the February 2007 issue as a model, let’s take a look at what features you can expect to receive. The first thing that catches my eye is a sidebar recommending different books to supplement Black History Month, as well … Continue reading →

Ranger Rick Magazine

The National Wildlife Foundation puts out Ranger Rick Magazine for children ages 7 and older to continue the tradition began with Your Big Backyard, designed for children younger. When you subscribe to Ranger Rick, you get twelve issues, one a month for a year, for the price of $19.95, and right now, when your subscription is paid in full, you get a free camera as a thank-you gift. You can also receive a junior membership in the National Wildlife Federation. Using the September 2006 issue, let’s take a closer look at this magazine. Right inside, we see a picture of … Continue reading →

Sesame Street Magazine

“Sesame Street” is, quite possibly, the most beloved children’s television show ever to be aired. Now showing in many different countries around the world, the characters have gained international appeal. You can find them in the form of dolls, games, picture books, coloring books, and you can also subscribe to Sesame Street Magazine, which is brought to you today by the letter P. Well, not really, but it is brought to you by something that starts with the letter P – Parenting Magazine. Using the July 2004 issue as our model, let’s take a look at what kinds of things … Continue reading →

American Girl Magazine

American Girl Magazine is written for girls ages 8-12, and a yearly subscription runs $22.95. This is a bi-monthly magazine, so you will receive 6 issues for that price. American Girl’s main focus is to help girls to find their voice and to develop their talents so they can grow up to be empowered women. Using the May/June 2007 issue, I’d like to show you what you’re likely to get in each installment of the magazine: This issue has a rainbow theme. Right inside, we read letters to the editor sent in from all over the country. Then we see … Continue reading →

Your Big Backyard

“Your Big Backyard” is a children’s magazine produced by the National Wildlife Federation. Geared toward readers ages 3-7, it’s a companion magazine to “Ranger Rick,” which is written for ages 7+. You can subscribe to “Your Big Backyard” for a year, at $17.95 for twelve issues. This is a savings of $2.00. And what do you get for your money? Each issue has a theme which is carried through from page to page. For instance, the June 2005 issue revolved around “Piggyback Riders.” Using this issue as a model, I’ll now show you what you can expect from future volumes … Continue reading →