I loved that magazine as a kid. The science, the puzzles, the articles. I loved the whole thing.
Is there any magazine like that for kids today?
My goodness, I’ve just been wondering the same thing.
Was it anything like National Geographic Kids?
I think magazines are slowly being replaced by subscription boxes. Though they often include a magazine, so… I don’t know what that means, really.
We should make our own.
This is the only one I was looking at and am now wondering how good it is.
321 Contact had science, but also puzzles, riddles, and lots of neat stuff to work on. I enjoyed it as mental exercise as much as the stories.
ASK magazine is like that: https://shop.cricketmedia.com/ASK-Magazine-for-Kids.html
It was a magazine?!? I only remember the TV show, with the great up-tempo theme song:
3, 2, 1!
Contact is the secret; is the moment when everything happens!
Contact is the answer; is the reason that everything happens!
Contact! Let’s make contact!
Highlights?
Has anybody read ChickaDee?
Too young for that audience. You’re looking at around 6-10 (so most of elementary school) for something like 3-2-1 Contact. Highlights is really more like kindergarten and preschool.
It seems like there were several science-related magazines for kids 25-30 years ago and practically none today.
Okay, checking Wikipedia it looks like I may have been too hard on the age for Highlights. That’s what I get for going by my own history of not reading it past about eight.
Ranger Rick is a magazine that has puzzles and riddles, as well as, stories. There’s a Jr. version (ages 4-7) and a Cub version (ages 0-3) to go along with the Regular version for kids 7+. Ranger Rick at Home - NWF | Ranger Rick
Seconded. My kids have gotten gift subscriptions to many magazines, including Ranger Rick, Ranger Rick Jr., Nat Geo Kids and Highlights. Their favorites BY FAR have been the Cricket magazines. We used to get BabyBug and Click, and now we get Ask and Muse. Cricket has magazines with both art and science themes, for ages from toddlers up through high school.
A former co-worker of mine was on that show.
Man I was so stoked when I first saw Levar Burton on Star Trek, I was all “HEY! I know who that actor is!”
OK, I was just about to say… I don’t remember reading Highlights until well into grade school. I think the sweet spot for me was around 4th-5th grade for that magazine. I certainly don’t even remember being able to read much until, I don’t know, first grade or so, around when I was 6 or more likely 7. (No preschool here, and in kindergarten, when I was 5, we were all just learning our letters at the time.)