National Geographic Kids magazine - the perfect balance between learning and fun! A must-have for children ages 6 and up. Each issue is packed with colorful photos, games, puzzles, fun features and facts about animals, science, technology, and more.
IF YOU TRAVELED 1 LIGHT-YEAR, YOU WOULD GO ALMOST 6 TRILLION MILES. A man walked on his hands from Vienna, Austria, to Paris, France. The trip took 55 days! A porcupine can have more than 30,000 quills. SOME PLANTS CONSUME INSECTS, FROGS, AND BIRDS FOR FOOD. A NEWBORN GIRAFFE FALLS 6 FEET TO THE GROUND WHEN IT’S BORN. THE GROOVE BETWEEN YOUR NOSE AND UPPER LIP IS CALLED THE PHILTRUM. THE LARGEST KNOWN STARS ARE ABOUT 2,000 TIMES LARGER THAN THE SUN. GET MORE! Book and App YOU CAN WRITE ABOUT 45 ,000 WORDS WITH AN AVERAGE PENCIL.…
COOL THINGS ABOUT FINLAND In Finland, poronkusema is a word for the distance a reindeer can walk before needing to use the bathroom. A 5,000- year-old piece of chewing gum was discovered in Finland. Finns can enjoy a sauna— a hot steam bath— in office buildings, homes, and even at the airport. Snow Hotel KAKSLAUTTANEN WHERE Saariselkä, Finland HOW MUCH From $400 a night WHY IT’S COOL If you like snow, then this is the place for you! Being able to make it through the night at this chilly igloo hotel definitely ups your personal cool factor (in more ways than one). But even the most adventurous travelers will be glad the hotel provides cold-weather sleeping bags and wool socks: The inside temperature hovers around 25°F. Just hope that you…
BIG-MOUTH DOG! Augie the golden retriever didn’t just fetch his tennis balls. He crammed five of them into his mouth, the most on record for a dog! Owner Laurel Miller says as a puppy Augie would chase tennis balls and then refuse to give them back. But soon Miller could simply place the balls on the ground and Augie would scoop them all into his mouth. At least he wasn’t barking with his mouth full! GLOBE MADE OF SOAP! This is one way to keep Earth clean! The world’s largest soap sculpture represents a globe held by two hands; it’s nearly seven feet wide and about nine feet tall. Guess it’s not such a small world after all. WORLD’S TALLEST MAN! Who needs a ladder when this dude is your…
1 Red also means “ “BEAUTIFUL in Russian. 2 The word “ruby” comes from the Latin word rubens, meaning “red.” 3 The color red doesn’t really make bulls angry; they are color- blind. 4 There are at least 29 different shades of red crayons. 5 The red stripes on the United States FLAG stand for courage. 6 Chinese BRIDES TRADITIONALLY wear red wedding dresses for good luck. 7 SEEING the color red can make your heart beat faster.…
1 SUPERNOVA REMNANTS This mosaic of six images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows an area of the Veil Nebula about two light-years across. (A light-year is the distance light travels in one year.) The whole Veil Nebula is 110 light-years across. The wispy gas trails are all that’s left of an ancient star that was once 20 times more massive than our sun. 2 DWARF PLANET NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured this image of Pluto (in the foreground) and its moon Charon. The colors here are made by combining three different images, and though the relative sizes are close to accurate, the relative distance apart is not to scale. 3 TELESCOPE POWER Two dwarf galaxies known as the Magellanic Clouds can be seen above the Paranal Observatory in the…
CAT HAS COOL EYES Budapest, Hungary It’s hard to look away from Pam Pam, a white exotic shorthair cat. The kitty’s peepers aren’t just, well, eye-catching—they’re also pretty rare. Pam Pam has iridis, an eye condition that means one eye is blue and the other is a different color—yellow in Pam Pam’s case. Iridis occurs when a gene prevents an equal amount of melanin—a pigment that determines the color of your hair, skin, and eyes—from reaching both eyes. This leaves the blue eye with less melanin. The feline form of iridis is unusual and can happen in any breed. “Luckily, iridis doesn’t cause any pain or vision problems,” veterinarian Seth Cohen says. The hypnotizing look can also be found in humans and other animals, such as dogs and horses. Even…
