National Geographic Kids is a children's magazine published by the National Geographic Society.[1] Its first issue was printed in September 1975 under the original title: National Geographic World. The magazine was published for twenty-six years as National Geographic World, until the title of the magazine was changed in October, 2001 to National Geographic Kids. In a broad sense, the publication is a version of National Geographic, the flagship magazine of the National Geographic Society, that is intended for children.