Another month, another great What on Earth! Magazine has hit the shelves. This month’s cover story is “Killer Plants.”
What on Earth! magazine delivers bite-sized chunks of reference-book goodness each month. You have all the interest and rigor you’d expect from a leading publisher of reference books with a topical feel and some extra bits of entertainment thrown in. Many children’s magazines are of limited interest, often having plastic tat attached to their front cover, which is usually broken as fast as the magazine’s content is forgotten.
Not so What on Earth! magazine. It’s perfect for inquisitive children of all ages. Not only does it cover a dazzling array of topics, it also has some great puzzles, jokes, and a child-friendly quiz.
The magazine is available in the UK and Worldwide (including the U.S.) and is available in both physical and digital formats. If you take out a subscription, you’ll make a saving on the cover price.
This month we open with a brilliant Factopia list, featuring not only history’s highest-paid sportsman, but the world’s largest game of hide and seek, AND a real-life invisibility cloak. Fully visible not at all hard to find is the the magazine cover story on pages 18-24, with everything you and your children ever wanted to know about dangerous plants. From the classics, like the venus flytrap, to poisons like hemlock and digitalis, and the less well-known but honestly terrifying “birdcatcher’ tree, the pisonia.
This June issue also has a fab double-page spread celebrating the solstice, foreshadowing What on Earth’s Latest book, Solstice. Look out for a full review of that on GeekDad in the not-too-distant future. My favorite pages in the book are devoted to the Sun and the life cycle of a star. This has always fascinated me, and the magazine lays it out in an easy to understand fashion. This 6-page infographic spread prompted a conversation between my children and I about which objects in the sky were the largest by both volume and mass. This highlights one of the best things about What on Earth! Magazine: it promotes great discussion and further investigation. This piece culminates in an excellent infographic that describes the common elements found in both humans and stars; better than that, it explains which part of the star cycle the element is created in.
The “Big Read” this month describes the birth of Islam and for something a little more light-hearted there is a vocabulary guide for both gorillas and orangutans!
This is my second issue of What on Earth! Magazine and I continue to be impressed. Never mind buying it for your kids: Interesting information delivered in easily digestible chunks, it’s perfect for any age!
I received a copy of the magazine in order to write this review.
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