Zootles Print Magazine

My daughter is 2.5 and we have been getting Zootles for about half a year or more. I'm not very excited about this magazine:1. It is limited to 10 pages or so and comes only once a month!2. More than half of the magazine is drawn, which is a negative to us since my daughter prefers real life photos to drawings.3. Not very well organized, really hard to concentrate on anything when you get to a page.One good aspect of it is that there are no advertisements, but now that I have this magazine, I would rather have the ads and rip them out before giving the mag to my daughter, than settle for something that is bellow my expectations in content.

It's a very, very small publication. My 4 yr old whizzed through it in a matter of minutes and asked where the rest of it was. Just not quite enough content honestly.What's there is great...but just not much too it.

My oldest granddaughter is 6 and reads at 3rd grade level...this magazine suits her reading needs, The 3 year old loves the pics, posters, stickers, and games.

Always has new picture to expand a toddlers vocabulary. Usually one subject per magazine. I recommend this for 3-5 year olds.

My daughter loves this magazines, she will sit and do one from front to back and never get bored. I love how engaging they are and the puzzles are fun, very much like Highlights Magazine.

GREAT MAGAZINE FOR MY ANIMAL-LOVING GRANDSON

Great product for children.

Zootles is a relatively new bimonthly from the creators of Zoobooks. Zootles features vivid, colorful spreads of wild animals, drawings of wildlife, stories, poems, games and other activities geared towards very young children aged 2 to 6. Each Zootles issue features a different animal and the focus tends to be on young animals or those often popular with young children (e.g. baby zebras, tiger cubs, rabbits, horses, elephants).Zootles presents the material in an educational and fun way without being "baby-ish". The themes tend to revolve around physical and developmental characteristics of the animal mixed in with fundamental learning skills such as reading, rhymes, counting and pattern recognition.Each issue features a particular number and letter each month and there is a recurring character, an otter, which is part of an regular comic strip on the back cover, that playfully guides the entire magazine along. The middle includes a bit more advanced detail about the animal featured and a page or two of additional resources and tips for parents who wish to engage their children further based on the current issue's theme.There is no advertising other than the subscriber insert cards for the magazine itself. Each issue is about 20 pages.This is one of the few magazines I've found most appropriate for and enjoyable by very young children. I also suggest you consider Ladybug, which is geared towards the same age group, but is a more general literary magazine with stories, poems, songs and games for kids in the same age bracket.