special report
JACK AND JILL Magazine
Readership: Ages 7 - 10
Children’s Better Health Institute
Note: This Special Report first appeared on Janfields.com
JACK AND JILL: up to 17¢ a word, Fiction/nonfiction -- 500 to 800 words.
We purchase all rights to manuscripts. Sample copies are $1.75 each
(U.S. currency) from the Children's Better Health Institute, P.O. Box
567, Indianapolis, IN 46206
From their
writer’s guidelines:
Looking for "high quality stories, articles, and activities with
health-related stories, articles, and activities with health-related
themes. ‘Health’ is a broad topic that includes exercise, sports,
safety, nutrition, hygiene, and drug education."
"Health information can be presented in a variety of formats, including
fiction, nonfiction, poems, recipes, and puzzles. Fiction stories with a
health message need not have health as the primary subject, but they
should include it in some way in the course of events. Characters in
fiction should adhere to good health practices, unless failure to do so
is necessary to a story's plot."
"Remember that characters in realistic stories should be up-to-date.
Many of our readers have working mothers and/or come from single-parent
homes. We need more stories that reflect these changing times but at the
same time communicate good, wholesome values. We are especially
interested in material concerning sports and fitness, including profiles
of famous amateur and professional athletes; "average" athletes
(especially children) who have overcome obstacles to excel in their
areas; and new or unusual sports, particularly those in which children
can participate."
"Nonfiction articles dealing with health subjects should be fresh and
creative. Avoid an encyclopedic or "preachy" approach. We try to present
our health material in a positive manner, incorporation humor and a
light approach wherever possibly without minimizing the seriousness of
the message."
ANALYSIS OF SPECIFIC ISSUE
JACK AND JILL
December 2002 Volume 64, Number 8
Stories and Articles:
Josie and the Hockey Team by Nancy Sweetland
Fiction: 4 pages/4 illustrations (full color)
Written in 3rd person POV -- Single POV Character (girl, 4th
grade)Themes deal with being a team player, and being honest about
yourself. Synopsis: Josie is new in town and loves to skate. She decides
to sign up for hockey. In her gear, it is not obvious that she is a girl
and she is signed up for the team as the only girl player. She frets
that they wouldn’t let her play if they knew she was a girl. She
discovers her problem isn’t being a girl -- it’s being a hotshot instead
of a team player. She decides to change both situations by helping make
her team the best, and being honest with the coach about being a girl.
Top Testers
Nonfiction: 4 pages/Full color illustrations, mostly photos
Low word count piece bout 3 kids (related) who applied to test science
experiments for the science books put our by a science museum. Lots of
quotes from the kids. Ends with a plug for the books.
The Sub-Way to Good Health [Looks like an in-house piece]
Nonfiction: Two Pages -- very short about one family who is trying to be
more healthy. Almost all quotes. Uses the Subway commercial guy and his
weightloss to kick of the story about the more typical family. Ends with
very short "Diabetes Danger" warning about obesity and diabetes and a
little quiz about spotting trends that can lead to obesity (and thus
diabetes).
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Special Features:
Last-Second Slap Shot Maze
Diane’s Dinosaur Cartoon
Be Fit and Festive: Songs (will music), work out suggestions, short
history of the song "Twelve Days of Christmas."
November Surprise: Graphic Novel/the story of the discovery of x-rays.
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Things to Do:
Puzzle Pages (black and white illustrations):
Christmas Squares: An interesting variation on a crossword:
squares where each clue produces a word that runs both across and down
(puzzle mentions Santa and elves)
A Need for Seed: A math puzzle based on simple multiplication logic.
State Stumpers: Word Puzzles using State names.
Hillside Tangle: A picture puzzle -- follow the line tangle
Holiday Words: a Word Search (Includes Hanukkah words
and Santa Christmas)
Make a Star of David by Yudthana Pongmee
One page/Color Illustrations/Craft
Uses Two Sentence Lead in about the Star of David.
Uses Headings "YOU WILL NEED:" and "DIRECTIONS:"
Includes things like scissors and ruler in the needs
Eight steps in the directions.
The Christmas Star
Very simple nonspecific reference to "those who celebrate Christmas" and
how they have a star to "symbolize their faith."
Picture Puzzle -- count the triangles in the star
Get a Jump on Fitness! Craft by Nancy Holiday
Two page -- One full page color illustration (also used on cover)
One sentence lead in.
Headers: YOU WILL NEED, DIRECTIONS, Now Hop to It?
(directions for using finished craft)
Four Step Directions.
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From Our Readers:
Jokes and Riddles
Poetry by Our Readers
Ask Doctor Cory
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