National Geographic Kids is a children's magazine published by the National Geographic Society. Its first issue was printed in September 1975 under the original title National Geographic World. The magazine was published for twenty-six years as National Geographic World, until the title of the magazine was changed in 2002 to National Geographic Kids. In a broad sense, the publication is a version of National Geographic, the flagship magazine of the National Geographic Society, that is intended for children.
Publication and readers
National Geographic Kids publishes ten issues annually. The headquarters of the magazine is in Washington, D.C. As of June, 2006, the magazine reports a circulation of more than 1.3 million in English, with an estimated English language readership of more than 4.6 million. There also are eighteen editions of National Geographic Kids in different languages instead of English, published in Bulgaria, Croatia, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Latin America, Lithuania, Benelux, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey and the United Kingdom. The magazine is written for children between the ages of 6 and 14. It has an advisory board of 500 subscribers and solicits reader feedback after each issue. Both the English and Afrikaans editions published in South Africa were converted to digital-only in June 2020. It had published in print for 16 years. The magazine recently launched a spin-off, National Geographic Little Kids, targeted toward children under kindergarten age. In 2009 the magazine launched their first almanac called National Geographic Kids Almanac 2010. In 2010 the almanac continued with an updated book, National Geographic Kids Almanac 2011. There have been new updates to the almanac issued annually since then.
The 25th anniversary issue in September 2000 was well publicized. It featured a "Top 25" list of the things readers most enjoyed a collection of cards people had sent to the magazine, and a special "Kids Did It" column that featured updates on the lives of celebrities who had been featured in the magazine when they were children, such as Michelle Kwan. The 30th anniversary issue in September 2005 featured an article describing what life might be like in thirty years. It also featured thirty "cool things" of the future.
