When I was 6 I read Twinkle but they no longer make it. Can you recommend a suitable comic for DD?

[Chuffinnora]

I have looked but found nothing suitable. Do you know of anything that will provide enjoyable reading?

DD (7) got a subscription to "Amy" for Christmas from grandparents. Seems ok so far, girly stories,make & do projects, jokes etc. I think it is a BBC magazine but not 100% sure.

Can we hijack this and turn it into a Twinkle nostalgia thread please?

What was your favourite? I was quite fond of Nurse Nancy who had the dolls' hospital with her grandad.

And I can't forget a Jenny Wren story which began 'Oh dear,' sighed Jenny, 'My bell-bottoms aren't fashionable any more!' so she cuts them down and all her friends go 'What super culottes!'

I loved Twinkle, had forgotten all about it

god not Bratz

dh brought one home the other day

I almost burnt it

we get Charlie and Lola but it is only in the absence of a viable alternative

I loved dandy lion - I wish I had kept some of them. I have some Bunty annuals and Victoria Plum but not Twinkle.

My dd is 6, it is hard to find a nice comic. We got a strawberry shortcake on the other day but mostly they seem to leap from Cbeebies type ones to Girls world with lip gloss on the cover.

Thanks for the replies - so there really isn't an alternative without a plastic necklace attached to the cover. I think it really helped me to get lots of reading practice in when I was small. What a shame that just at the stage of independent reading there is so little on offer. Can we start an internet campaign to bring back Twinkle? It worked for Wispa.

Kathy I loved Nancy Nurse and the Three Pennys.
I picked up Beano this week and was at the price 99p! It was 8p when I used to get it

Sparkle World is OK. You still get the obligatory plastic crap, but it's full of stories and has an activity section, with games and spelling, writing etc, and you get stickers for completing each page.

Dd is 6 and likes it.

dd used to like Witch but she's on to Mizz now

The beano is one of the cheapest, lots of them seem to be £2 or £3.

OMG - Twinkle!! Was there a story about an old English sheepdog?

My main memory of Twinkle is that my mum cancelled delivery of it while I was away on Brownie Pack Holiday, without telling me. I was devastated the following Tuesday when it failed to show up with the paper that morning !!

I have bought loads of old Twinkle annuals for DD2. She loves them. You have to haunt charity shops and car boot sales, or find a secondhand children's bookseller - we have a great guy who runs a stall at our local market and finds them for me. It is worth looking on Ebay though, you might get a job lot.
DD1 also has a stack of Mandys, Buntys and Judys. It's a fab nostalgia-fest for me!

My dad used to manage a newsagents when I was a kid and brought home a comic for me every week ... forget which one it was now. However, he lost his job and stopped bringing them back RIGHT in the middle of a good story line and I never found out what happened.

Does a mumsnetter recognise this comic story and how it ended? It's been bugging me for a couple of decades or so

It was about a girl whose best friend died and she's still grieving. The family moved house and school (I think) and she decided she was never going to open up her heart to anyone again because it hurt too much. Ironically there was a girl at her new school who looked VERY similar to her old friend and was also keen on being her new best friend. Cue lots of rebuffs and meanness.

Please tell me it had a happy ending

Twinkle characters

Twinkle.

DS reads National Geographic Kids.

Not girly, and no outfits with tabs to cut out, but he likes it...

Oh wow, I remember twinkle.

Didn't it use to have the story of the dolls/toys hospital in? And you had to find baby moonbeam in each issue?

{PP has a nostalgic few moments!}

Thats right nurse nancy - sigh.

Was it twinkle that had the baby moonbeams?

I can't remember any moonbeams PP but it doesn't mean they weren't there. I was reading it in 1977 ish.

I was reading DD3 a story about a girl who trained dogs as a circus act from Twinkle tonight as well as Nurse Nancy and one about a little girl with a magic paintbook. She loved it.

The magazine Majorica recommend on the other magazine thread looks fab and I have just ordered it for dd1. I think it was £32 for 10 issues so a little pricey...