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.
CHECK OUT THIS BOOK! THE SOUND OF AN ICEBERG BREAKING IS LOUDER THAN 214 OIL TANKER ENGINES. SCOOBY-DOO was originally named TOO MUCH. MISTLETOE HAS NO SCENT. SOME PIGS HAVE CURLY HAIR. AN EMPEROR PENGUIN HAS ABOUT 100 FEATHERS ON EVERY SQUARE INCH OF ITS BODY. THE ASIAN WEAVER ANT CAN HOLD OBJECTS 100 TIMES ITS WEIGHT—WHILE HANGING UPSIDE DOWN! You could buy cola-flavored Cheetos in Japan. People THROW AWAY enough RIBBON each year to tie a bow around the entire EARTH. About half of the WORLD’S POPULATION lives in areas where SNOW NEVER FALLS.…
MAJOR BLING Grab your sunglasses: This ring has some serious sparkle. It holds the record for the most diamonds on a ring, with 24,679 sparklers. Designed to look like a pink oyster mushroom, the ring was created by pouring liquid gold into a mold to form 41 mushroom petals. Then each petal was encrusted with diamonds. Wearing the ring might get a little tiring—it weighs almost one pound! BIG-MOUTH DOG! Finley the golden retriever doesn’t just fetch his tennis balls. He crams six of them into his mouth, the most on record for a dog. Owner Cheri Molloy says that as a puppy, Finley would chase tennis balls and then refuse to give them back. But now she simply places the balls on the ground, and Finley scoops them all into…
1 Deep-fried jelly doughnuts called sufganiyot are eaten during Hanukkah to represent an ancient miracle involving long-lasting lamp oil. 2 A harvest festival called Basega honors ancestors of the Mossi people in the African country of Burkina Faso. 3 During Dongzhi, a festival in parts of Asia, families eat sweet dumplings called tangyuan to symbolize togetherness. 4 During a Japanese celebration called Toji, people take baths filled with citrus fruits and eat pumpkin for good luck. 5 Hallacas, a type of tamale eaten in Venezuela on Christmas Eve, can be stuffed with as many as 20 different ingredients. 6 Celebrated by many Black Americans, Kwanzaa gets its name from the phrase “first fruits of the harvest” in Swahili, an African language.…
Cold Feet For its first 50 days of life, a newly hatched emperor penguin chick hangs out on a parent’s feet to stay safe from freezing ice. Best snowshoes ever? Frog-cicle Here’s one way to survive frigid temperatures in the Arctic: Freeze yourself solid. For up to eight months, wood frogs don’t breathe, have a heartbeat, or move a muscle. In spring, the hoppers thaw from the inside out. Snow Way Out A little rodent can’t hide from a red fox—not even under three feet of snow. The hunter listens for rustling, then … kapow! The fox leaps up and dives straight into the snow, pinning a meal with its paws. Ice Games A thick layer of fat and a woolly fur coat keep giant pandas comfortable in the chilly…
CHECK OUT THE BOOK! 1 NORTHERN LIGHTS The aurora borealis (uh-ROR-uh bor-ee-AL-us)brings vivid green swirls to Jökulsárlón, an icy lagoon in southeast Iceland. When charged particles from the sun collide with oxygen molecules about 60 miles above Earth, they excite the atoms to give off a stunning green glow. 2 STARRY SKY A long exposure taken of the Milky Way over the Black Sea shows off our home galaxy. All the stars we can see from Earth are in the Milky Way, and astronomers estimate that our galaxy has 100 to 400 billion stars in it. 3 SPIRAL STORMS A dramatic thunderstorm cloud called a supercell cloud swirls above a grassy plain. Supercells, which are powerful storm systems, form at less than 6,500 feet in the air during hot, humid weather. Powerful updrafts—rotating…
Wild Holiday Party Brookfield, Illinois Brookfield, Illinois Hudson the polar bear steps into his enclosure at Brookfield Zoo. Something new is inside: an evergreen tree with lots of tasty treats hidden in the branches—a fish-mas tree! “Hudson has to figure out how to use his paws and teeth to get the fish out,” says Tim Sullivan, an animal behavior expert at the zoo. “And then he’ll explore the smell and texture of the tree itself.” Sullivan gave trees like this one—left over from a holiday event—to many animals at the zoo. The idea is that enrichment activities like these keep zoo animals physically and mentally healthy by providing new challenges and experiences. So bison tossed the conifers into the air, and big cats played with trees hanging from bouncy bungee…
