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Plum Deals has a special today where you can get National Geographic Little Kids for $12 versus the regular $23.
Has anyone ever gotten this? What do you think? Would you recommend it? Maybe its a good deal at this price but you wouldn't pay full price for it?
I'm all ears (but have to make a decision today to get the deal!).
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No specific experience with the Little Kids version, but we did preview the Kids version and didn't care for it. The attitude toward the animals, in terms of their value relative to the value of people, was kind of a turn-off. People were definitely portrayed as 'the bad guys' in my opinion.
I think ZooBooks does a much better job at conveying the dangers to animals through environmental and other factors,without demonizing people.
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I just wrote a long post and it got eaten by the forum monster. 
Anyway, we subscribed to this magazine to help out a kid trying to raise money. My kids (especially my 4 year old boy and to a lesser extent my 3 year old girl) love the magazine. There are nice articles about nature and animals and some fun activities. We usually do the entire magazine in about two sittings. I would pay $12 for it, but definitely not full price. HTH
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Lindsey- do you mean the the one that is half size, aimed at younger children?
We had a subscription last year given to us as a gift. It was nice, but I would say that it is really for the 3-4 year old age range. My dd was five, and though she enjoyed looking at it with me, she was well beyond it at the point already.
It is small- half as tall as a regular magazine- and has beautiful color pages.
If I still had little little ones, I would get it again for half price.
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I didn't even know that they had a "Little Kids" version - I am only familiar with the NG Kids magazine. And I am in agreement with Noreen, NG Kids has a very heavy PC environmental slant and has a pretty specific worldview/agenda it is teaching. I don't know if the younger version is more of the same since I haven't seen it.
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kristinannie wrote:
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Sorry! Sometimes if you hit the "back" button on the browser it will recover what you lost. 
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MaryM wrote:
I didn't even know that they had a "Little Kids" version - I am only familiar with the NG Kids magazine. And I am in agreement with Noreen, NG Kids has a very heavy PC environmental slant and has a pretty specific worldview/agenda it is teaching. I don't know if the younger version is more of the same since I haven't seen it.
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I agree.
I also found the graphical layout of the NG Kids magazine tended to be a distraction from, rather then an enhancement of, the actual pictures and articles. I actually found reading the magazine akin to walking with small pebbles in my boots.
The Nature Friend magazine was such a relief compared to NG Kids, lots of graphic manipulation but nothing that actually distracts from the actual articles and pictures and interesting articles which don't give prority to propaganda over information.
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I am a bit late to the party and probably not of any help, but we have received both the NG Kids and NG Little Kids as gifts. I agree with everything written about the NG KIDS here- it was full of ads for video games and toys (almost a 2:1 ratio of non ad pages and ad pages). The articles were uninspiring and twaddley at best. A lot of them pushed a PC/"green" agenda where animals are valued over people.
On the other hand, I have an no problems with the LITTLE KIDS magazine. They are small, half the size of a typical magazine, full of nice pictures of animals and great stories for beginning readers and a few games. No ads that I have seen.
I was shocked at the difference between the two. We asked the person who gifted the KIDS magazine to us to please stop renewing and switched to the Cricket magazine group instead, but we continue to receive the Little Kids one.
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We have it. It's just ok. I'm not excited about all the cartoony stuff, or the propaganda, or the advertising... but my son really likes having a magazine all his own that arrives in the mail in his name.
When the subscription runs out, we're going with Kids Discover - it seems like more bang for the buck!
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