Your Big Backyard Magazine

Pros: Endearing wildlife photographs/posters, high-quality content, educational activities, crafts, recipes, easy-to-read animal stories, supports wildlife/conservation

Cons: Few pages, newsstand availability, activities difficult for youngest children-some can be worked only once.

The Bottom Line: Your Big Backyard introduces preschoolers to animals & nature through creative crafts, educational activities, stories, posters & charming photographs. It will appeal to children interested in animals/outdoors. Limited availability.

Review: Looking for a wonderful magazine for young children between the ages of 3-6? Consider the high quality Your Big Backyard magazine. The large clear photos of wild animal large & small will captivate children. Although the magazine doesn’t...

Pros: Animals, Great Photos, Quality content

Cons: Many marking and cut-out activities, less sturdy than Wild Animal Baby

The Bottom Line: A publication which encourages exploration and delights youngsters through photographs of animals and wacky facts.

Review: Recently, while at the pediatricians office, we were in for a long wait. Unfortunately my little guy was so sick and clingy that he wasn't even interested in playing in the kids waiting area (which usually he enjoys quite a bit). Instead he was content...

Pros: Cute pictures and simple text help children learn about nature

Cons: none

The Bottom Line: Final recommendation is that I love this educationally scientific magazine and enjoy reading it to children.

Review: "What’s that?" asks Chester Chipmunk. That’s the back of Your Big Backyard cover with a photo or drawing of an animal on it and Bonnie Bluebird telling us some facts about the animal. This is just one of the features in my four and a half-year-old...

Pros: Everything

Cons: Nothing

The Bottom Line: You should buy this because your child will learn tons of stuff and it's got awesome pictures.

Review: My father got this subscription for my almost four year old about a year ago for her third birthday. We don’t have any animals, but she is quite an animal lover, and she looks forward to this magazine every month. He’s since renewed it for her ...

Pros: Awesome pictures, chock full of learning tools

Cons: Not a very well known magazine

Review: Have you ever seen the breaching of a whale so close up that you swear the water is going to come pouring down? If you have the December issue of Your Big Backyard, then you know what I'm talking about. Big, huge, giant, gigantic, enormous...

Pros: The photos; The games; The educational value

Cons: None!

The Bottom Line: This is an excellent magazine for youngsters

Review: I get dozens of magazines delivered to my doorstep every month and just this past year, I decided that it was time to introduce my little girls to periodicals. Searching for some appropriate magazines yielded several good results and the one I ended up ...

Pros: Educational, fun.

Cons: None to speak of.

The Bottom Line: Fun way to learn about animals, and targeted for the 3-5 age range.

Review: We have been getting Your Big Backyard Magazine for my 5 year old for about a year now, and I have decided to continue our subscription because she enjoys it so much. We got an offer in the mail last year about this time offering us a subscription ...

Pros: Written especially for young children. More than just stories.

Cons: Not enough pages

The Bottom Line: This magazine will teach a young child and will help adults to get involved with helping them learn.

Review: My grandson has been receiving Your Big Backyard every month for the past 2 years.
He wants this read to him the minute it arrives.

This magazine is great for young children because it isn't just filled with stories.
There are games...

Pros: fun activities, fun recipes, fun stories, educational, entertaining and more

Cons: it only comes once a month!

Review: Your Big Backyard is published by the National Wildlife Federation and is a great magazine for kids. My grandmother, my 6year olds great-grandmother started a subscription for my daughter two years ago and we have been renewing the...

Pros: Gorgeous photographs, written for pre-schoolers

Cons: Only comes once a month

Review: "Your Big Backyard" is a monthly publication geared for children ages 3-6 years old. It is published by the National Wildlife Federation, the same group that publishes "Ranger Rick" magazine.

My daughter received a...