Babybug Magazine is published by the Cricket Magazine Group. The intended audience is the age range of six months to three years of age. The magazine is published nine times a year and may be purchased in increments of one year at $33.95, two years at $57.95, and five years for $124.95. Each issue contains 24 pages of high quality ink illustrations, bound together with nontoxic glue, has extra heavy pages with rounded corners, and is just right for small hands (www.cricketmag.com, 2010).
Every issue begins with suggestions to parents from child development expert Sally Nurss, M. Ed. regarding ways to improve literacy development in children. Stories, poems and nursery rhymes including Mother Goose fill the pages of the magazine. As an added bonus, purchase of a subscription includes access to www.babybugmagkids.com website where parents can ask questions of Sally Nurss, find advice on literacy development, and post book reviews/recommendations in the “Parent’s Corner”.
Babybug Magazine has won many awards such as “2010 Parents’ Choice Approved, 2009 Classy Mommy Product Pick, a 2009 Parents’ Choice Approved, and a 2008 Parents’ Choice Silver Honor” (www.cricketmag.com, 2010). On another note, no advertising is posted on any of Babybug Magazine issues.
Resources:
Babybug Magazine. (2010). Retrieved from http://www.babybugmagkids.com
Cricket Magazine. (2010). Subscriptions. Retrieved from http://www.cricktemag.com/
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