5 unique magazines to get your child's creativity buzzing

With eye-catching visuals and fun interactive games, EYEYAH! will grip the attention of the most hyperactive child. These locally produced magazines aim to hone kids' critical thinking skills with creative challenges, visual puzzles and engaging activities. Each issue focuses on a specific theme – such as food, trash, fake news, the sea – giving your child great exposure across a wide range of hot button issues, but in a way that won't put them to sleep. Pick up individual magazines at $5 or a five-pack ebook bundle at $20. 

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Quarterly children's magazine Anorak will set your kid's imagination alight with beautifully illustrated stories, games and activities on a unique theme from issue to issue. Whether it's about space, music, myths and tales, or the great outdoors, Anorak Magazine is the perfect happy pill for anyone over six years of age. If you have a younger tot in the house, try out the companion magazine DOT instead. Anorak Magazine hails from the UK but delivers worldwide, costing $52 for a one-year subscription. 

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Kids deal with complex emotions like grief, anger and jealousy just as much as adults. Give your child a leg up in life by helping them understand and navigate their feelings from young – in a lighthearted and engaging way – with magazines from Bayard Presse. The French publisher's special Box Collection comes with monthly issues of StoryBox (ages 3-8), AdventureBox (ages 6-10), AdventureBox Max (ages 9-14) and DiscoveryBox (ages 7-14), each curated to feature age-appropriate and emotionally mature tales to impart important values to kids for life. 

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Got a budding scientist at home? Nurture that spark with Okido, a STEM magazine for children. Targeted at three to seven-year-olds, this magazine from the UK is carefully designed by science and education experts to bring out the creative scientist in your child. Every issue is full of stories, games, recipes and more to help young readers to understand complex concepts in simple terms, and to learn by doing through fun experiments and puzzles. Okido delivers outside of the UK and USA, starting at $102 for a six-month subscription. 

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More comic book than a magazine, The Phoenix is nevertheless a great way to ease your kids into building up good reading habits. Developed in the UK, this weekly comic series features action-packed tales both fictional and non-fictional, all promising to draw readers in as well as any Xbox or Playstation set. Get four issues from just $2 or pick up a six-month subscription delivered right to your doorstep in Singapore for under $100.

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