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Ask investigates the world with past and present inventors, artists, and thinkers, and

scientists. From the publishers of Click, Ask offers cartoons, contests, projects, Web

experiments, games, and puzzles for kids ages 7 to 10. Ask is an informative, high quality

magazine for children that engages them as readers and learners. Since each issue is devoted

to a particular theme, my students gain in-depth information about a variety of topics. They

are fascinated by the attractive format -- which includes wonderful photographs,

illustrations, and graphic aids that are appropriate for young readers. My students have

eagerly written letters to the editor and entered the bi-monthly contests. I highly

recommend Ask as an excellent magazine for school libraries, classrooms, and homes.

Ask Magazine is designed to teach elementary age children about science using art and arts

and crafts. Each issue has a theme and that theme is adhered to fairly strongly throughout

(everything but a single page of short "how things work" articles at the front and a page of

scientific question and answer at the back fits the theme). Themes tend to be less general

than the themes in other children's science magazines and often take a slightly different

angle than you might expect. Instead of an issue on the science of light, Ask published an

issue on darkness. Other issues take a "how x works" approach; one of my favorite issues

covers how our brain processes new information, or in simpler terms, how we learn. Each

issue also has a cartoon that fits the theme. Although technically containing the same

characters and part of an ongoing strip, I find strips tend to be independent and not linked

in any real way to previous or subsequent installments.

The artwork is somewhat dull and not terribly appealing, but some of the ideas and content

are quite clever and make me laugh. For example, the cartoon in the issue on cars featured

"grassoline" and showed a car that runs on grass. Despite the very real lack in the artwork,

this cartoon was very effective. Not only was it funny, but it illustrated some engineering

principles without getting technical and it also implied that alternate fuel methods were

under development without getting into politics or heavy issues.

Some of the cartoons are much lighter, though. The cartoon in the darkness issue showed some

of the creatures you might imagine lurking about if you're afraid of the dark and the power

went out. It didn't bring anything to the table other than a stab at entertainment (and, in

my opinion, it failed there too). Ask is an informative, high quality magazine for children

that engages them as readers and learners. Since each issue is devoted to a particular

theme, my students gain in-depth information about a variety of topics. They are fascinated

by the attractive format which includes wonderful photographs, illustrations, and graphic

aids that are appropriate for young readers.

My students have eagerly written letters to the editor and entered the bi-monthly contests.

I highly recommend Ask as an excellent magazine for school libraries, classrooms, and

homes.Like all of the magazines from the folks that bring us Cricket and Spider, this is an

attractive work, full of diverse types of stories and artwork.

by: asfwaseem

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