Magazines Galore!

We have magazines for children, magazines for parents and teachers, magazines, magazines, and more magazines!  

And now on our website you'll find handy lists and descriptions of all the magazines that are available in the Children's Services department.  Check out these lists, and then come in and check out a magazine!

Summer Reading Program: Beyond Books

We're two weeks into the Summer Reading Program...are you getting in your 20 minutes a day? 

Here's a tip: you don't have to stick to books! You could also:

• pick up a magazine like Highlights High Five, Kiki, or Cousteau Kids,
• listen to an audiobook or try out a Playaway,
• read a cereal box, the menu at a restaurant, your grocery list, a recipe, or
• read a blog (hey - you're doing that right now!).

Remember... all kinds of reading counts when you're counting minutes for the Summer Reading Program!

Kiwi Magazine

Want to know the natural way to handle a bee sting?
Wish you had a cheat sheet of unhealthy ingredients to avoid when you're at the grocery store?
Interested in whipping up a "green power potion" smoothie to get more fruits and veggies into your family's diet?


Then check out the latest issue of Kiwi magazine. You'll find all this and much more in the magazine for "growing families the natural and organic way." Ask a librarian to show you where to find it in the Parent-Teacher Collection here in Children's Services.

Popular Science Archives

Oh, what a fascinating archive to explore! Popular Science & Google have teamed up to bring us 137 years of Popular Science magazine for free. Here are a few fun things that I stumbled across:

• An application to sign up for the first moon flight from August 1952
• The First Successful Color Movie from February 1923
• What Radio Set Shall I Buy? from October 1924
• Planet X is Now Pluto from August 1930
• Who Was the Iceman? from January 1993

Be careful - once you start browsing these archives it is difficult to stop!

New Magazine in Children's Services!

Kiki is an award-winning magazine and creativity journal for girls ages 8 and older. Kiki helps each reader develop her personal style and gain self-confidence. Kiki features (7) departments in every issue: Art Bin, Biz Buzz, From the Studio, Kiki Care, Kiki Fun, World Beat, and Your Style.
	√ Quarterly √ No advertising √ 80 pages per issue

Best Books of the Year

I was so happy to see Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson on the Best Books of the Year list in Publisher's Weekly.

Chains is definitely on my list of favorite books of the year. It is also on the ACPL Mock Newbery list, click here to read what people are saying about it and to add comments of your own.

Don't Tell the Children: Homeschoolers' Best-Kept Secret

The article "Don't Tell the Children: Homeschoolers' Best-Kept Secret", which appears in the September/October 2008 issue of The Horn Book Magazine is a celebration of books and reading. The author, Sherry Early, shares how books are used (and loved) by her homeschooling family.

This issue is full of Stories Out of School including "Splinters" by Megan McDonald (the author of the Judy Moody books), "An Art School?" by David Wiesner (two time winner of the Caldecott Medal), and "Fortification" by Shannon Hale (winner of a Newbery Honor) to name just a few.

If you enjoy reading about books, visit our Parent Teacher collection where you will find a year's worth of The Horn Book Magazine to check out.