How do you make the news interesting, relevant and digestible for children?

As a parent or grandparent, do you worry that your children or grandchildren are growing up with very little interest or understanding of the important issues and events that affect us all?

How do you even begin to explain the complicated political, economic, environmental and technological issues we read and hear about every day?

The difference in the way that First News present the news is that they do not assume children know the background to a situation such as the issues in the Middle East. They always put each news story in context and use graphics to make it exciting, impartial and engaging.

By providing a mixture of serious and more light-hearted stories and varying the length of reports from more in-depth features to bite-sized news briefs First News has become the widest read weekly children’s publication in the UK.

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First News firmly believe that getting children into the habit of reading and learning about the world around them from an early age, encourages awareness and confidence that will stand them in good stead for the rest of their lives.

A critical factor in the success of First News is that kids actually want to read it. Fun design brings the stories to life, and competitions and a sprinkling of celebrities hold the reader's attention from cover to cover.

First News introduce children to the news in a trusted environment with a newspaper written just for them. This enables them to not only participate in but also generate and enhance great family conversations!

Don’t just take our word for it, as one of our subscribers said:

"We love your newspaper. We have only had 2 weeks' worth of the paper, but are already hooked. My children (10,12 and 13) read it from cover to cover and one of them is a really reluctant reader!” Nikki Clube, subscriber

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