Chickadee (magazine)

Chickadee
Categories Children's magazine
Publisher Owlkids
Total circulation
(2010)		 99,328
Year founded 1979 (1979)
Company Bayard Presse
Country Canada
Based in Toronto
Website www.owlkids.com/chickaDEE
ISSN 0707-4611

Chickadee (stylized as chickaDEE) is a Canadian children's magazine. It was founded in 1979[1] as a spin-off of OWL Magazine geared towards younger readers. Its headquarters is in Toronto.[2]

Originally, the magazine was aimed at kids up to the age of eight and focused on science and nature. Founding editor Janis Nostbakken created a mix of puzzles, activities, and stories, including recurring characters such as Henry the Pig [3] and Daisy, the transforming heroine of the "Daisy Dreamer" comics.

Today, the magazine is aimed at kids aged six to nine,[2] and has gradually become a more general-purpose children's magazine.

The magazine was published by the Young Naturalist Foundation.[2] In 1997, chickaDEE (as well as sister publications OWL and Chirp) was purchased by Bayard Canada,[4] which also owns a number of French-language children's magazines, including Les Débrouillards and Les Explorateurs.

References

  1. ↑ Eugene Benson; L.W. Conolly (November 30, 2004). Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. Routledge. p. 897. ISBN 978-1-134-46848-5. Retrieved October 31, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 James L. Thomas (November 1987). "Magazines To Use With Children in Preschool and Primary Grades". Young Children. 43 (1). JSTOR 42725948.
  3. ↑ http://www.owlkids.com/meet-us/then-and-now/
  4. ↑ Susan Krashinsky (June 29, 2011). "OWL Survives in a Challenged Magazine World". The Globe and Mail.


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