12: The Explorers' Issue

Adventure is out there. 

For: Girls, 5 to 12, who want to go places

Highlights: Read a short story about a city girl who learns to love the forest, go to Mars with NASA’s Insight lander, become a taste explorer with a new ice cream flavor, read a comic about the first woman to circumnavigate the world, learn how to be brave, make a tiny travelin’ buddy, and train your explorer’s eye and hear thrilling tales from real-life explorers. Plus: A color-by-dot, a spot-the-difference, games, activities and more.

Featured experts: Writer Cheryl Strayed, polar adventurer Ann Bancroft, ice cream maker Diana Hardeman of Milkmade, comedian Josie Long, NASA’s Sue Smerkar, art historian Leslie King-Hammond, marine scientist Salome Buglass, large carnivore ecologist Rae Wynn-Grant, glaciologist Ulyana Horodyskyj

Short story contributor: New York Times best-seller Karina Yan Glaser

Comic contributor: Lucy Bellwood

Specs: 64 full-color pages, soft-touch matte cover stock

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