Is Highlights a good magazine for a 5 year old?

Highlights is usually targeted for the older kids like 7to 9 year olds. If you want to subscribe a magazine for your 5 year old niece i would try highlights High Five this is for preschoolers and kindergarten and also first grade. I think she would enjoy this one more because the stories are alot easier to read and there is alot of pictures as well. Good Luck

I love Highlights and did especially did when I was a child. That would make a wonderful gift! :)

I'm not crazy about it. Try cricket or spider, my 5 year old loves them more.

Highlights is good. There is also a series of magazines by one publisher that has magazines for successive ages 5 into adolescence—I just can't remember which mag is for which age but google search and website would clarify that. They are: Ladybug, Cricket, Spider, and Cicada. I work with kids and keep these 5 for them in the waiing room..

heck yes, highlights rocked when i was 5... i still remember Goofus and Galant... did i spell that right world? Galant? "Goofus throws snowballs at other people, Galant throws snowballs at trees... haha" It worked for me... i graduated high school with honors and went on to graduate college... get that kid reading yo... i also remember the Sweet Pickles series... not a magazine, but a book series for kids.... whoa, that brings me back, thanks... get her highlights, she will always remember it.

My mom subscribed me to Highlights as a kid when I lived in the US, and I learned alot of vocabulary on it, its a great source for a child, and at his age, he/she should have adult involvement on it., but its a great mag for kids., I also reccomend National Geographic for Kids.-

It's good. I subscribed in the first and second grade. It's something positive and pleasant.... a nice media antidote, in that sense, for little ones.

That is good. I use Highlights for all my kids and I still do.

Definitely, as a child i grew up on the magazine and i turned out great. Know that i think about it i kind of miss it