My Mum put the Autumn '09 issue of Anorak Magazine in Cameron's Christmas parcel and we think it is fantastic! The illustrations are beautiful, it's interactive, it's funny, it's quirky, it's informative without being patronising and it's cute without being sickly.
Cameron has been really inspired by the artwork and also a photo story featuring teddy bears. He's been making his own, featuring Squeaky and another stuffed toy he received at Christmas. In fact, it was the thing that drew his attention away from his new games console during Christmas week - not an easy feat, I can tell you!
As a parent, I think this is the best regular children's magazine publication I've ever seen.
We were especially pleased to see an illustrated feature by Gemma Correll. We have been enjoying some of her Daily Diary pages on flickr for a while and we spotted her drawing style straight away.
Best of all - Anorak is not very expensive - at the time I wrote this it was £12 for an annual subscription (4 issues) which I think is an absolute bargain and we've signed up for a year. You can also buy back issues and other things on their website shop. It's also available in some shops too.
I hope that didn't come across like a sales pitch, I just love that the online community of parents can share news about good stuff :o)
4 comments:
It read like a recommendation, nothing wrong with that :)
Thanks Jax :o)
Hi,
Would you and Cameron like to do a review of this magainze for the next EO newsletter. The deadline is March 1st. If you are interested the email address is bookreviews@educationotherwise dot org.
Tammy
Thanks for the offer Tammy but I don't feel I could do anything that supports EO in it's current form.
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