Sesame Street Magazine

Sesame Street Magazine:

• has minimal advertising
• does a nice job capturing the spirit of the show
• provides an excellent bridge from watching to reading

In other words, you can use this non-glossy magazine to harness your child's love for Sesame Street and channel it toward the world of reading.

Like the show, Sesame Street Magazine endeavors to help grow little minds into big ones. Intended for pre-readers, this is a charmingly interactive little publication, filled with words and pictures and hands-on stuff for your child to do, with adult help of course.

Writing, drawing, cutting, folding...by the time you're done with an issue, it will look quite happily beat up!

So what's the bad news?

Here it is: you can't buy or subscribe directly to Sesame Street Magazine. It comes to you as a supplement to Parenting Magazine.

And Parenting, well... I'll be frank. It isn't exactly considered to be the best magazine on the subject. Also, some men take offense to it because it tends to read as if the only parents are female.

Still...

Let's see if we can look at this positively.

The subscription to Parenting Magazine, last I looked, was only $15.00. There's no extra charge for Sesame Street. At 15 bucks for 11 issues, you'd be getting Sesame Street Magazine for less than just about any other children's magazine you could hope to find.

(Warning: Please make SURE that the subscription offer you take advantage of includes Sesame Street Magazine. I can't be responsible if it doesn't. The awful Parenting.com website makes no mention of it, that is when you can see behind all the Coca-Cola pop-up ads. That's why I'll be sending you to Amazon.)

There's a decent chance that there will be something of worth in Parenting, should you choose to read it. And no one will be forcing you to do so!

You could:

• throw it out
• start fires with it
• resell it to your local used book store

Heck, maybe you could make money on this whole arrangement! After all, the subscription price is only a fraction of the cover price.

Of course, there are other children's magazines aimed at the same age children as Sesame Street. (Babybug and Ladybug come to mind.)

Lots of options. Just remember the important thing: a children's magazine subscription helps you help your child build a regular reading habit!

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