Youkie (2025)

13/12/2023

Last chances to order and receive one of our bundles in the post before Christmas …

🟢 Today for the NT
🟣 Tomorrow (14 December) for WA
🟠 Sunday (17 December), rest of Australia

Give the gift of screen-free FUN and ad-free OPTIMISM, all summer long.

Bite-sized bundles (2 issues), Youkie bundles (4 issues) and super-sized Goodie bundles (10 issues) are all in store 🌟

https://youkiemag.com/store/
Image: Two Youkie mags tied with an orange bow on a green background. Coloured stars are displayed around this Bite-sized bundle.

04/12/2023

Say happy holidays, happy new year, happy birthday – or just thinking happy thoughts of you – with our Bite-sized bundle. Two magazines, tied with a bow and lots of LOVE.

Or there’s our Youkie bundle. Four jam-packed issues, chock-full of inspiring and informative unplugged FUN.

We know girls don’t just want to be pretty in pink. Well boys aren’t just interested in blowing up aliens either. Youkie is the place to celebrate EVERYTHING a kid can be.

Give the gift of ad-free entertainment and OPTIMISM, all summer long 💝

https://youkiemag.com/store/
Image: A child’s hands hold Youkie issue 21 high in the air, against whispy white clouds and blue sky. Coloured stars are drawn around the mag.

28/11/2023

🌟 SAVE 20% on our Goodie bundle with the code EXTRA-GOODIE 🌟

School’s almost. Out. For. Summer. And we cannot wait.

Fill your empty afternoons and long-distance trips with hours of screen-free fun, when you order a Goodie bundle.

Split the bundle and gift single mags to a circle of friends. Or wrap the whole lot as a bumper surprise for someone special.

Each Goodie bundle is jam-packed with 10 print magazines. That’s nine keepsake Kookies plus our first issue as Youkie, or 10 copies of the same issue. You choose :)

https://youkiemag.com/store/goodie-bundle/

🎉🚙🏖✈️🎁
Images: 10 slides featuring all 10 covers in the Goodie mix bundle. Our cover stars are real pr***en readers with beautiful natural smiles and not a smidge of make-up. Confetti flutters in the background and there’s a starburst in each bottom-left corner, with reader quotes and more displayed inside (text in Comments).

23/11/2023

Right now, across Australia, 10-year-olds are being locked up in prisons.

Criminalising the actions of CHILDREN solves nothing and causes immeasurable harm to young people, families and communities. Kids don’t deserve to be detained and punished. They DON’T belong in prison.

On 1 December 2023, all federal, state and territory attorneys-general are meeting to discuss the minimum age of criminal responsibility. Today we join the many voices calling on politicians to keep the most marginalised children in Australia OUT OF PRISON.

Find out more, contact the attorneys-general, take action.

https://www.amnesty.org.au/campaigns/child-rights/
https://www.changetherecord.org.au/raisetheage
https://raisetheage.org.au/take-action

🚫

Mark Dreyfus
Shane Rattenbury MLA
Michael Daley MP
Chansey Paech: Member for Gwoja
Yvette D'Ath MP
Kyam Maher MLC
Guy Barnett
Jaclyn Symes
John Quigley

Urgent reform is needed to raise the age of criminal responsibility to at least 14. It’s time to change the laws that allow imprisonment for primary school-aged kids and to invest in better alternatives.
Images: Two slides reposted from Amnesty International Australia and Change the Record with thanks. The first shows four kids in silhouette against a clear sky. Text across the bottom reads, ‘It’s time to raise the age. No delay in keeping kids away from prisons!’ (photo by Rusty Stewart for Amnesty International). The second slide is an orange panel with text that reads, ‘ Week of Action 2023, 24 November – 1 December. Find out more at raisetheage.org.au/take-action’. An illustration featuring colourful circles is displayed at the top (by Noongar Yorga artist Buffie Corruna).

16/11/2023

If your kids have been worrying about problems in the world, there’s a way to turn those feelings into positive action: they can write a letter to the prime minister.

✏️ Vanessa Ryan-Rendall Author explains, step by step, how to write about big issues and bright ideas to anyone in positions of power, inside Youkie (issue 22). Read her tips in full:

www.youkiemag.com/blog-how-to-write-a-letter-to-the-pm

Our ‘How to’ series also includes:

💬 ‘How to … create a yarning circle’ with Wiradjuri man and Landcare Australia educator Adam Shipp (issue 23)

💔 ‘How to … cope with loss’ by much-loved children’s author Nova Weetman www.novaweetman.com.au (issue 20)

😹 ‘How to … make up a joke’ and spread some joy (issue 21).

There’s sooo much for us to learn and do together.
Images: Four slides show each ‘How to’ feature displayed on a coloured background. A speech bubble overlaps each spread. They read, ‘Take action to make change’, ‘Talk and listen without judgement’, ‘Find a place for every feeling’ and ‘Zing with ideas, fizz with glee!’.

24/10/2023

Respect to BMX racing queen Saya Sakakibara, who has worked her way back from injury to claim the title WORLD CHAMP at the 2023 UCI BMX Racing World Cup!

If you have a copy of Youkie issue 23, head straight to our interview with Saya and her brother Kai Sakakibara. Be sure to read about the sheer physical effort and commitment to mental growth that goes into winning a championship.

Congratulations Saya! So impressed and thrilled for you 👑
Image: Video of Saya's dazzling World Cup final heat, shared from UCI BMX Racing with thanks.

18/10/2023

CALLING ALL TEACHERS! Four schools have the chance to win a bundle of Youkie mags, thanks to our new partner 🎉

How? So easy ...

Just send an email to Books in Homes and make sure you’re signed up to their newsletter, The Bridge. Full details inside the latest issue (linked below). Closes THIS WEEK, on Friday 20 October ‼️

https://mailchi.mp/225a53ff11da/meet-our-term-4-2023-book-catalogue-role-model-5409959?e=a0842cac68

This year Books in Homes Australia celebrates giving 2.9 MILLION new books (and counting) to young readers, over 21 years of operation 🌟

It’s a thrill and an honour to support this powerful literacy program, which we’ve seen in action and admired for so long. Looking forward to sharing more mags as our partnership grows 🌱
Images: A photo shows two young readers engrossed in the books they’re holding open, propped up on their elbows on the floor of a classroom. The Books in Homes logo appears in the top left corner. In slide 2, confetti falls over copies of Youkie issue 21, placed on a vivid green background, with ‘WIN!’ displayed in a circle on top.

20/09/2023

It’s September, when we usually launch a new quarterly issue. Not this time.

Our latest release, issue 23, marked six years of production. Although the publishing dream is still alive, the past six years have been very full … and so we’re taking a break to review, reflect, recharge and reimagine (all the Rs!) how we create this mighty little mag, before returning in 2024.

Readers who want to continue enjoying our kind of magic, there’s good news: several much-loved previous issues are still in stock, including our very first issue.

youkiemag.com/store/

We’ll keep sharing updates and Youkie goodness here as well. There’s even an exciting new project in development that we’ll be talking about soon.

Stay posted!

To all our brilliant readers, subscribers, contributors and supporters, THANK YOU for your understanding and kind words, and for making this magazine possible ❤️‍🔥

Nicky X
Editor and publisher
Images: Two slides featuring a quote from a subscriber. ‘“Both my girls, now 10 and 14, still love your magazine. A few months ago they started reading their entire collection again and continue to read nonstop ... // “Please let us know if you plan to resume Youkie in the future* and we will definitely resubscribe!” Tracy, Youkie parent (Subscriber since 2018) *Yes, we do ... Stay posted!’

18/08/2023

Who doesn’t want to kick a ball around right now?

Susan Sohar started freestyle football to improve her soccer skills. ‘But it turned into an obsession,’ she says, ‘trying to learn every trick.’

Freestyle combines juggling, dance and acrobatics to perform cool solo tricks. Our guide to this creative sport and Susan’s expert tips are inside the latest Youkie.

All you need is a ball to give it a go! ⚽️
Images: Two photos of Susan, showing her impressive control of a ball. In the first, she’s seen up in the air with the ball against her back heel. The second shows her upper body and head leaning over to the right, with the ball resting on the side of her head. A third slide features our two-page article on freestyle football. A speech bubble floating over the image reads, ‘Inside issue 23’.

16/08/2023

Game changers.

What a gripping World Cup, and what a moment the Matildas have created for us ALL across Australia.

Love you, Tillies ❤️🔥
Image: A photo shared many times and reposted from CommBank Matildas. The whole team is seen from above, standing in a perfect heart shape on a soccer pitch. Whoever set up and took it has captured what we enjoy so much about the way the Matildas play and our admiration for them.

08/08/2023

Our new poster says it all :D

Created by for Youkie readers 🧡💚💛💗

Inside issue 23 🍊
Image: Juice bursts from a drink carton labelled ‘Squeeze the day’. ‘Let’s!’ appears in a speech bubble above it. Leaves, stars, circles and other small hand-drawn elements swirl around it. Candy’s cheeky artwork is lush with yellows, pinks, green and orange.

06/08/2023

Mailed in a beautiful recycled-paper envelope (no plastic here), issue 23 is out now … and being read, reread and shared everywhere! 💌

If you’re enjoying this Youkie, be sure to tell your friends. Link below to our store, where you’ll find some much-loved previous issues in stock too 🌟

youkiemag.com/store/
Images (clockwise from top left): Two young friends and their doggo companion are sprawled over a bed, reading our latest magazine plus a couple of back issues. A drawing of an envelope flying into an open letterbox appears over the photo. Two more slides feature photos of Jade Goodwin Illustration peeking over the cover of issue 23 (just her eyes and dark curly hair can be seen above the cover, held open to show the front and back), as well as Saskia (10) from Press Gang News pointing to her contribution on the last page (she’s smiling brightly in her blue school uniform, holding the mag open with one hand, in front of a red brick wall). ‘Mag mail!’ appears in a green burst over Jade’s photo. On the last slide, ‘Issue 23 out now’ is presented against a dark blue background, with a star shooting out of another letterbox.

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