I love magazines; I subscribe to a ridiculous number of them. One of my favorite things to do is to crawl into bed with a big pile of magazines and read and read and read.

I have loved watching my kids get interested in magazines, too. They will bring in the mail and immediately drop whatever they are doing (as well as all the rest of the mail) and huddle together on the floor in the living room to pour over their newest issue of whatever has come that day. So fun.

If you are raising a little reader (and who isn’t?), then I have a deal for you: Savvy Savings and Scholarships is offering twelve issues of Cricket magazine for $22 (that’s over half off the regular price of $44.50). Cricket is kind of like the New Yorker for kids; it consists of really fantastic fiction and non-fiction pieces, beautifully illustrated and ad-free. Targeted at kids 9-14, Cricket is one more way to get your tween interested in reading — and in reading something really good, not just novelizations of the “Star Wars” franchise. Just for example.

And if your child is a budding writer, Cricket offers poetry and fiction writing contests for kids. I used to love entering those contests, and I hope my kids will, too.

Have a younger reader at your house? This offer is also good for Babybug magazine (for the under-3 set), Ladybug magazine (for 3-6 year olds) and Spider magazine (6-9 year olds). There truly is something for everyone in this offer.

To get your subscription, visit Savvy Savings and Scholarships. Your purchase helps fund preschools in your area, and every subscription you buy via Friday Playdate supports the Backpack Project. It’s a win-win!