French magazines

[Bluegoat]

I am hoping someone here might be able to help me!

I'd like to get a French language magazine subscription for my dd13.  She has just started in an immersion program this year for grade 7.  She's doing really well and enjoying it, but it is a bt of a challenge at times to find fun reading material that is interesting to a teen but also not a lot of work to read.  It occurred to me that a lot of magazines could be appropriate, just regular ones that French teens might read.  But I've had trouble finding options, and what I have found i am not sure about - it's difficult to tell whether they are any good.

I'm pretty open in terms of content - even just cheesy fashion stuff would be fine.  Dd has a wide variety of interests.  We're in Canada if that makes a difference.

[madteaparty]

There are the ones by Bayard press, j’aime lire comes to mind. It’s pricy to get it delivered in the states so check level before you shell out. If you want some old ones ( last couple years), pm me your address.

[SoCaliLover]

Following!  I would be interested in this also but for a younger (9yo) child  Especially anything science or animals in nature (ie similar to kids national geographic)

[Laetissima]

I only know about magazines sold in France so you might have better luck (and spend a lot less money!) finding Canadian-published magazines. I just found this website from Bayard Canada with several of the magazines I mention below so I'll put the link here: https://www.bayardjeunesse.ca/collections/magazines-8-14-ans

The "J'aime lire MAX" for the oldest age group (9-13) might appeal to her (https://www.jaimelire.com/j-aime-lire-max-9-13-ans) but might also be hard if she's a beginner. You could try a subscription for the next age group down to start with, the 7-10 edition.

There are some more teen-girl-oriented magazines that I've seen around, like Julie, but I've never looked into them. https://milan-jeunesse.com/offre-speciale-amc/magazines-8-15-ans/magazine-julie-amc.html 

SoCaliLover, how about Astrapi (science and history) or Wapiti or Okapi (animals) ? https://www.astrapi.com/magazine    https://www.wapiti-magazine.com/magazine

My favorites are the the magazines from Faton jeunesse ( https://www.faton.fr/theme/jeunesse.5.php ), which are more intellectually stimulating ?  We loved Le petit Léonard (art history magazine, 7-13 years) when we got it for a few months, and Arkéo (archaeology). For slightly older kids/teens, Histoire junior (history, obviously), Virgule (literature, langage) and Cosinus (math--for high schoolers) are all solid. 

There is also a French edition of National Geographic. 

[Bluegoat]

4 hours ago, Laetissima said:

I only know about magazines sold in France so you might have better luck (and spend a lot less money!) finding Canadian-published magazines. I just found this website from Bayard Canada with several of the magazines I mention below so I'll put the link here: https://www.bayardjeunesse.ca/collections/magazines-8-14-ans

The "J'aime lire MAX" for the oldest age group (9-13) might appeal to her (https://www.jaimelire.com/j-aime-lire-max-9-13-ans) but might also be hard if she's a beginner. You could try a subscription for the next age group down to start with, the 7-10 edition.

There are some more teen-girl-oriented magazines that I've seen around, like Julie, but I've never looked into them. https://milan-jeunesse.com/offre-speciale-amc/magazines-8-15-ans/magazine-julie-amc.html 

SoCaliLover, how about Astrapi (science and history) or Wapiti or Okapi (animals) ? https://www.astrapi.com/magazine    https://www.wapiti-magazine.com/magazine

My favorites are the the magazines from Faton jeunesse ( https://www.faton.fr/theme/jeunesse.5.php ), which are more intellectually stimulating ?  We loved Le petit Léonard (art history magazine, 7-13 years) when we got it for a few months, and Arkéo (archaeology). For slightly older kids/teens, Histoire junior (history, obviously), Virgule (literature, langage) and Cosinus (math--for high schoolers) are all solid. 

There is also a French edition of National Geographic. 

 

Oh, wow, those are some great options - thanks!

[Loesje22000]

We use these: http://www.elimagazines.com/www/en/magazines.html

[Laetissima]

On 5/16/2018 at 12:09 PM, loesje22000 said:

We use these: http://www.elimagazines.com/www/en/magazines.html

Loesje22000 -- I see there is even a Latin magazine from this publisher. That is such a cool idea! Have you tested it by any chance? (Sorry to change the subject from French magazines but I see in your signature that you are doing Latin too.) 

[Loesje22000]

1 hour ago, Laetissima said:

Loesje22000 -- I see there is even a Latin magazine from this publisher. That is such a cool idea! Have you tested it by any chance? (Sorry to change the subject from French magazines but I see in your signature that you are doing Latin too.) 

 

I could have used it, but it is the first year we use them, before we used Mary Glasgow magazine, but they became to easy.

We prefer the Eli magazines, and used the German and the French one (different levels), the magazine topics fit the exams here. Latin has fixed texts so there is less need for magazine stuff ?