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Sparkle World & Redan Childrens’ Magazines Review & GIVEAWAY #giveaway

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For my daughter’s fourth birthday one of her friends gave her a magazine subscription to Sparkle World magazine.  My first thought was, oh how cute, kids love getting mail!  My second thought was countless hours of “Mommy what does this say? Mommy what do I do here?”  Ugh!  Well, let me tell you- I was wrong!  When the first issue of Sparkle World arrived, I wondered if she would pay it any mind or if she would look at it and quickly stack it with the other puzzle style magazines she already got from another publisher.  Well, Sparkle World was totally different.  From the moment that it arrived she was completely engrossed in it.  Why?  My guess is the characters.  Unlike many conventional children’s magazines, Sparkle World has tons of familiar and popular children’s characters.  The current issue features My Little Ponies, Littles Pet Shop, Strawberry Shortcake, Disney Fairies and more.

From that first magazine to our now renewed subscription, Sparkle World magazine was great for entertaining my daughter with little explanation required from me.  My then four year old couldn’t read aside from a few sight words and was able to sit at the table (usually while I was cooking dinner) and figure out most activities in the magazine herself.  Occasionally I had to read a sentence or two to her and off she went.  The magazine included a few stories we would read together, but it was mainly full of learning activities- letters, numbers, counting, sequencing, beginning math, patterns, coloring and more.  Sometimes there is a suggested craft or recipe we do together at a later date.  Each magazine features a specific character themed workbook complete with stickers and other activities.  And let us not forget the giveaways!  They have great giveaways of current popular children’s DVDs and toys.  Entering the giveaways requires nothing more than a quick email.  Once we were even lucky enough to win!  You can even send your child’s artwork based on the characters in the magazine into the publisher, Redan, and they will select some of it to be published in the coming months.  My daughter was lucky enough to have one of her pictures published and that entitled her to win a mini- subscription (3 issues) to another of their publications, Friends Magazine!

While Sparkle World is more girly in nature and recommended for ages 3-9, Friends was more gender neutral and is recommended for ages 2-7.  So it was no surprise when it came my 2 year old son was also very interested in it.  Again, the familiar characters pulled them right in.  I have to say it was adorable and a total mom win to watch her “reading” it to him and the two of them coloring together. After further investigation I discovered Redan’s current catalog offers a wide range of titles full of characters kids love.

Fun to Learn- Peppa Pig, best for ages 2-7
Sparkle World, best for ages 3-9
Fun to Learn- Friends, best for ages 2-7
Scooby Doo, best for ages 4-9
Fun to Learn, Thomas & Friends, best for ages 2-7
Disney Junior’s Sofia the First, best for ages 3-9
Fun to Learn, Sesame Street, best for ages 2-7
Disney Princess, best for ages 3-9
Disney Junior, best for ages 2-7

What’s new at Redan- coming in December a new Marvel Ultimate Spiderman Magazine and coming in February it’s Disney Frozen magazine.  Do you have a Spiderman lover?  A Frozen freak?  I’m fairly certain I’ll be ordering the Frozen magazine.  As my 5 year old said the other day “I can never have too many Frozen toys!”  Here’s to sneaking a little learning in on the side!



Marvel Ultimate Spiderman, best for ages 6-12
Disney Frozen, best for ages 3-9

Readers of Apple Tots in the Hudson Valley who are interested in subscribing to any of the Redan publishing titles can do so for a discount exclusively available to our readers!  Go to the website REDAN and enter SCCMB in the promotions box in the lower left hand corner.  Remember, these subscriptions make great gifts too.

Not ready to subscribe?  Try WINNING a mini-subscription (3 issues) to any of the existing titles!  Apple Tots in the Hudson Valley and Redan are offering, not one but TWO WINNERS mini subscriptions!  Enter here:

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Disclaimer:  I do have a pay subscription to Sparkle World and a prize subscription to Friends.  I was given complimentary issues of the other magazines for purposes of review.  All opinions are honest and my own.

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