Your children will hear or read some adult news coverage and this can be scary or confusing for them. It's often hard to know exactly what they've picked up on and how they feel, so it's difficult to know what you should tell them or bring up to discuss.
The Week Junior is pitched at the right level that they will learn the facts and the background and not just the scandalous headlines and terrifying soundbites.
Very much like a regular news magazine, such as it's big brother 'The Week' in format, each edition has around 32 full colour pages with longer in-depth articles and snippets breaking up the page. Longer articles are broken up into shorter paragraphs and there are plenty of illustrations, so even with a lot of information, it isn't intimidating to younger readers.
The Week Junior also has regular features. Puzzles, readers letters, a sports section, a technology section, recipes, photos of the week. It's all very easy to navigate and varied, so every young reader will pretty much find something (or everything) to interest them on each 2 page spread.
Although The Week Junior is recommended for age 8-14, it's a great way for anyone to learn the real stories behind the headlines and I'm learning far more than I realised I would. I'd also trust The Week Junior to tell the balanced truth far more than most regular adult newspapers...
The Week Junior is recommended for age 8-14 and is available weekly from selected newsagents priced £1.99 per edition, or by subscription for only £18.99 for 3 months/13 issues. You can even try it for 6 weeks for free! Check out The Week Junior website for more information.
The Week Junior have kindly offered a 6 month subscription for one of my readers as a giveaway prize. It might seem an unusual choice at first, but a magazine subscription is an excellent ongoing gift for a child in your life (especially if you really don't know what to get for them or what they need) and this one is suited to anyone 8-teen and beyond.
Entry to the giveaway is by Gleam form below and it's open to UK entrants only. The giveaway will end at midnight Sunday 3rd December. Full terms and conditions are at the bottom of the Gleam form.
If you are new to Gleam or to see my other giveaways, please go to my giveaways page...
Six Month Subscription To The Week Junior News Story Magazine (8+)
We've been given our own subscription to The Week Junior in order to review.
The story of Sophia Elyssa Chiappalon, aged 5 who has 'married' her best friend before she has heart surgery. Looks like they both had a great day and good fun and she got to be a real princess for the day. Just to cute.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to choose the Twitter employee who deactivated Donald Trump's account on their last day of work!
ReplyDeletePrince Harry defying palace rules and protocol and following his heart and not a script
ReplyDeleteThe story of the man who is in his 90's and still selling poppies, bless him
ReplyDeleteMy daughter loves stories about animals such as a sheepdog on newsround hearding sheep into a farmer's kitchen
ReplyDeletelocal man rasing money for local school
ReplyDeleteDebbie McGee proving that older doesn't mean non fit and non sexy on Strictly
ReplyDeletei saw an article about a man who walked 20 miles to and from work and wouldnt except any help and his work mates clubbed together and bought him a car
ReplyDeleteThe sheepdog puppy taking his job too far and taking the sheep into the house
ReplyDeleteabout an 86 year old walking 86 miles for the royal british legion,,, trying to raise £1000 but had only got £300, with abit of publicity from a well known comedian it went to over £100,000 in less than 2 days... i blubbered
ReplyDeleteThe woman who learnt to read at 88
ReplyDeleteI try not to watch too much news as it is mostly doom and gloom, I have enjoyed the reporting on breakfast about blue planet and how the film crew have got the amazing film footage for the program
ReplyDeleteThe 86 year old man raising money for charity who wanted to raise 1000 pounds but the post got shared on Facebook and now he's got loads more
ReplyDeletethe 9 something old lady who moved into her sons nursing home to take care of him
ReplyDeleteMatthew McConaughey Spent His Birthday Delivering 4,500 Free Thanksgiving Turkeys
ReplyDeleteA former soldier who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp selling poppies for the Royal British Legion at the age of 100
ReplyDeleteThe woman who fundraised to buy a house for a homeless man!
ReplyDeleteour local nursary raised 100 pounds for children in need
ReplyDeleteThe 86yr old man walking the Thames Path for the British Legion
ReplyDeleteI love his time of year as revere are so many heartwarming charity stories of people raising money for children in need.
ReplyDeleteHas to be listening to the radio and all the donations flooding in for the children in need this year, and the children doing the rickshaw challenge...
ReplyDeleteMy 4 year old cut her very long hair today and raised £100 for Pudsey, we are also donating her hair to charity.
ReplyDeleteFrank Bruno stepping in to save the day by donating a signed boxing glove to a pub quite local to ours to sell, after their poppy appeal box was stolen
ReplyDeleteMy friend shaved her hair for pudsey! @leabana1
ReplyDeleteThe 86 year old who was walking 86 miles for the British Legion who went viral and raised thousands!
ReplyDeletea young girl who lost her legs still carried on and fullfilled her dream of being a gymnast x
ReplyDeleteA lovely lady 98 o think caring about her 80 year old son in a nursing home.
ReplyDeleteTeen is saved from killing himself by call from an old friend - ten years later they're married
ReplyDeletemore funny/cute but i loved the story of the fox catching a ride on the open top bus for a bit of sightseeing!
ReplyDeletePups getting prizes for doggy diving in a dog show. Great picture showing dog jumping off a ramp into the pool. Happening in Germany.
ReplyDeletethe royal engagement. Who doesn't love a royal wedding
ReplyDeletethe royal engagement made me smile xx
ReplyDeletethe story off the man that fostered a dog for a abused mother as the dog bit the abuser and he was going to kill it, and now she has her protective doggy back x
ReplyDeleteThe royal engagement. They make a perfect couple :-)
ReplyDeleteThe poppy seller whose still going even at 100
ReplyDeleteThe rickshaw challenge, I really admire those youngster
ReplyDeleteOur local school raising lots of money for charity!
ReplyDeleteAustralia saying yes to gay marriage - thats a step forward to creating a more equal world
ReplyDelete86 mile sponsorship for 86 year old veteran
ReplyDeleteSimon Cowell donating £250k on the xfactor to a charity that helps children with cancer
ReplyDeletethe royal engagement :)
ReplyDeleteLots of lovely acts of kindness
ReplyDeleteThe two base jumpers jumping into a moving plane. Amazing!
ReplyDeletethe poppy seller still selling at 100
ReplyDeleteThe woman who learnt to read at 88, amazing
ReplyDeleteMy daughter's school raising money for charity :)
ReplyDeletePrince Harrys going to get married
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