Parent Tips

Welcome to the National Geographic Little Kids companion website. For more information about this magazine, click here. We offer many windows on the world to help you guide your curious preschooler toward safe and fun exploration of the world.

Aimed at preschoolers ages 3 to 6 and their parents, National Geographic Little Kids is the magazine for young explorers, packed with teaching tools to help parents inspire a love of learning in their children. The Association of Educational Publishers chose National Geographic Little Kids for it's highest award, the Golden Lamp, in 2009 and named the magazine Periodical of the Year in 2008 and 2009.  It also won a Parents' Choice Gold Award for the same years.

Filled with lively photographs and engaging stories to develop prereading and early reading skills, plus interactive picture games and puzzles to teach logic and counting, each 24-page issue contains fresh and imaginative instruction tools. There are captivating animal stories, answers to questions on kids' favorite topics, features on different cultures to inspire a sense of understanding about the world, plus interactive experiments to introduce simple science. Each issue also includes a set of six wild animal cards.
         
As you read NG Little Kids and explore this website with your child, you're providing the most important gift you can give: time with you. From quiet bedtime stories and laugh-out-loud humor and rhymes, to interactive, hands-on experiments--pages of the magazine and this site give you opportunities to help reinforce a range of important learning skills for your preschooler.
        
Parent tips throughout this site help you enrich the reading experience for each page of NG Little Kids. Look for specific parent tips that accompany each story or activity.

Reading together provides children with opportunities to practice verbal and other language skills, helps them practice the important abilities to focus and listen, and stimulates curiosity about the world around them.

Everything you need to help your preschooler become a bright, curious explorer can be found in the pages of NG Little Kids. Captivating animal stories develop prereading and reading skills as well answer questions about kids' favorite creatures. Features about different cultures bring the world to your child and inspire a sense of understanding. Interactive experiments introduce simple science, and fun puzzles and games teach logic, counting, and so much more.
                         
National Geographic Little Kids is a perfectly sized magazine for little hands, at approximately 6 1/2" by 7". National Geographic Little Kids is available by subscription for $15 a year (six issues) and on newsstands for $3.99 a copy. Explore online at littlekids.nationalgeographic.com.



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