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🎃 Patricia L. Maples 🎃 @birdseyemaples.bsky.social · 3d

LOOK AT THIS INCREDIBLE POSTER!!

I wanna see wall-to-wall coverage of kids holding clever homemade signs. My 11-year-old finished hers last night, and she's excited and ready to go.

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Kazoo magazine @kazoomagazine.com · 13d

OMG, Kazoo is worth...a kazillion dollars!

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 13d

Doing some back of the napkin math on the Free Press acquisition, I've determined The Onion is worth $2 trillion.

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Kazoo magazine @kazoomagazine.com · Sep 17

Trying every day to inspire young girls (who didn’t ask to grow up in all this mess) & just making silly stuff that will hopefully bring them some joy, too.

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Kazoo magazine @kazoomagazine.com · Sep 9

“She felt that if a rule didn’t make the world a better, fairer, more beautiful place, then it was her duty to break it” is maybe not a message you’ll find in other kids magazines, but @kazoomagazine’s comic on the Godmother of Punk, Vivienne Westwood, says all that and more. (🖍️ Katie Skelly)

Page from “The Godmother of Punk” a comic about Vivienne Westwood from Kazoo magazine #38

Panel from “The Godmother of Punk” comic about Vivienne Westwood for Kazoo magazine #38. Illustration is of adult Vivienne Westwood wearing a white shirt with “Be reasonable demand the impossible” across the front. Caption reads: “Vivienne never stopped fighting for a better world, and she was an inspiration because she always wore her beliefs on her sleeve — or across her chest.”

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · Sep 5

Sesame Street will be putting a huge collection of episodes on YouTube starting in January 2026

This is a fantastic way to educate children

It’s a form of resistance.

Shows like Sesame Street teach love, tolerance, acceptance & more.

These lessons are crucial for the long fight ahead.

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Kazoo magazine @kazoomagazine.com · Sep 3

Q: Why print?

A: This FLIP-the-FLAP FUN cover of @kazoomagazine’s Razzle Dazzle issue, that’s why.

(Well, one of the many reasons why kids love physical books & magazines. Subscribe to Kazoo & we’ll show you 272 more.)

🖍️@lydiaburton.art 💡@sah_rah

#printlives #kidsbooks #flipbooks #booksky

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Kazoo magazine @kazoomagazine.com · Jul 31

Elizabeth Segran, a writer at Fast Company, explores why we are seeing a kids magazines revival. On NPR’s Marketplace, she says, “Kazoo is the magazine that arguably launched this new movement. It’s focused on kids age 5-12. In particular it really wants to help girls grow up strong and confident.”

Kazoo magazine @kazoomagazine.com · Jul 31

Thanks to NPR’s Marketplace & Fast Company for covering some good news—about Kazoo! “Subscription-based children's magazines are revitalizing the genre”https://www.marketplace.org/story/2025/07/29/subscription-based-childrens-magazines-are-having-a-moment

Subscription-based children's magazines are revitalizing the genre

While all sorts of child- and tween-focused magazines of the previous decades are no more, a new generation of print magazines for kids is emerging.

www.marketplace.org

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Kazoo magazine @kazoomagazine.com · Jul 24

Amy Sherald, (also featured in Kazoo magazine’s Art Issue 23) shows us how it’s done.

Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · Jul 24

Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”

Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship

www.nytimes.com

Kazoo magazine @kazoomagazine.com · Jul 21

"A New Generation of Magazines is Getting Kids to Put Down their Phones" in Fast Company featuring Kazoo magazine's Editor in Chief @erinbried.bsky.social.
www.fastcompany.com/91364687/a-n...

A new generation of magazines is getting kids to put down their phones

In a world of smartphones and screen time, parents are willing to pay for high quality magazines for kids. It's reviving a once dead industry.

www.fastcompany.com

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · Jun 30

#ALAAC25 It was an honor to celebrate Dr. Carla Hayden at ALA Annual—a visionary who has shown us, time and again, what it means to lead with wisdom, purpose, and grace. Learn "What Gives Carla Hayden Hope" at American Libraries. bit.ly/4eskLzf

What Gives Carla Hayden Hope | American Libraries Magazine

The former Librarian of Congress talked with author Kwame Alexander at ALA's Annual Conference and Exhibition in Philadelphia on June 28.

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Kazoo magazine @kazoomagazine.com · Jul 1

This is not about a fear that these books might turn kids gay, it’s fear that they might help children empathize w others who are different. Opting out of empathy and understanding is the least “religious” thing to do.

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Martha Hickson @sassylibrarian.bsky.social · Jul 1

“Pride Puppy! and books like it aren’t controversial—they offer children a chance to see themselves and others with empathy and understanding. Inclusive literature doesn’t push a particular belief; it simply acknowledges that all families and identities deserve to be part of the story.”

Association of Canadian Publishers Responds to U.S. Supreme Court Decision Limiting Access to Inclusive Children’s Books - Association of Canadian Publishers

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · Jun 30

Books with Black/brown characters and LGBTQ+ characters are getting banned because banning books is the first step towards banning people. Contact your local library and school board and tell them you support the freedom to read, for everyone.

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Michelle Romo @monstromo.bsky.social · Jun 19

Some of my favorite folks to work with, @kazoomagazine.com had me create this search and find for their Lead the Way issue. ❤️🍦☀️

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Summer Pierre @summerpierre.bsky.social · Jun 18

I see you Tennessee. 🏳️‍⚧️🩷🩵🤍

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Kazoo magazine @kazoomagazine.com · Jun 10

Kazoo magazine is an ad-free children’s magazine which has defied the odds, winning the National Magazine Award for General Excellence (plus 6x National Magazine Award finalist & 5x ASME finalist) w readers now 53 countries worldwide. Now shipping our 37th issue! Subscribe www.kazoomagazine.com

Kazoo Magazine: Award-Winning Print Magazine for Girls Ages 5 to 12

Kazoo is an award-winning print magazine for girls, ages 5 to 12, that celebrates them for being strong, smart, fierce, and true to themselves. Every 64-page, ad-free issue is packed with science, art...

www.kazoomagazine.com

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Kazoo magazine @kazoomagazine.com · Jun 10

When a kid gets lost in an issue of Kazoo magazine, she finds herself in a world in which girls are celebrated for being scientists, artists, activists, athletes, & more—and suddenly the future feels ✨full of possibility✨.

“MAKE THE
FUTURE BRIGHT
Kazoo
Join us in our movement to raise strong, confident girls.”

An illustration of a young girl reading a book while being sheltered, as if inside a tent, by a large copy of Kazoo magazine. On a light blue background w yellow and pink stars.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jun 9

my main takeaway after spending the afternoon at the national history day competition is that the kids are pretty alright. also, that reactionaries are right to fear the consequences of kids learning the truth.

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Kazoo magazine @kazoomagazine.com · Jun 7

Love this so much!

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Kazoo magazine @kazoomagazine.com · Jun 4

“This ad-free indie children’s magazine has defied all odds, winning the National Magazine Award for General Excellence and expanding its reach to 53 countries.”

Our Editor-in-Chief Erin Bried on how she keeps Kazoo magazine going & growing: pagesthemagazine.com/the-little-m... #kidlit #booksky