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Time for Kids

American children's magazine

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ7805304 ↗
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Time for Kids (or TFK) is a division magazine of Time magazine that is produced especially for children. The magazine was established in 1995. It contains some national news, a "Cartoon of the Week", and other features in its weekly eight pages. The headquarters was in Tampa, Florida. Later it began to be published in New York City. It is distributed in various schools across the United States.

The magazine also runs special edition issues, and a website which offers daily news coverage and is the home of the TFK "Kid Reporter" program.

There is a TFK edition of the trivia game Don't Quote Me, which has won several awards.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Time, Kids and American providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Time for Kids” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.