What do you do if you can’t find anything suitable for your sons to read? Easy: publish something yourself. At least, that was Christine Cubitt’s response when she found herself searching without success for a magazine that would bridge the gap between children’s comics and football magazines. Two months ago, she realised her dream with the launch of Boys 1 a monthly mix of facts and fun for 8-to 13-year-olds. It contains science, dinosaurs and cars, a comic strip and star interviews. “The aim is to entertain, inform and stimulate,” Christine explains. And it seems to be catching on. Issue One has been reprinted and the demand for the second edition has led to the number being printed incr easing from 10,000 to 30,000. “Interest from readers and shops proves that there is a market for it,” she says.Christine, 39, for nine years a full - time mum to her three sons. “When my youngest went to school, I felt I wanted to go back to work,” she says. Which is exactly what she did, as a secretary. But she felt restless: “I realised I really wanted to work for myself.” Doing what, she wasn’t sure, until she started to wonder about the absence of what she calls the ‘right’ material for her sons to read. “I began to research the market and found there was a gap that could be filled,” she says.
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