OWL (magazine)

OWL
Frequency 10/year
Total circulation
(2010)		 82,493
Year founded 1976 (1976)
Company Bayard Canada
Country Canada
Based in Toronto
Language English
Website www.owlkids.com/owl
ISSN 0382-6627

OWL Magazine is a popular Canadian children’s magazine founded in 1976 by Young Naturalist Foundation members Annabel Slaight and Mary-Anne Brinkmann. It was designed to make children ages 8–12 “think beyond the printed page”.[1][2]

Originally a science and nature magazine – OWL stands for “Outdoors and Wild Life”[3] – in recent years, like sister publication chickaDEE, the magazine has come to encompass a larger variety of topics.

Regular features include weird news from around the world, how-to articles, science stories, a reader-driven advice column, and comics The Outrageous World of Alex and Charlie and Max Finder Mystery. Memorable past features include Dr. Zed (written by Canadian scientist Gordon Penrose and is being continued in chickaDEE) and comic strip The Mighty Mites, which left in 2002.

Related OWL media has included books and videos, produced by former owner OWL Communications. In 1997, OWL (as well as sister publications chickaDEE 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.

OWL/TV

OWL/TV was a half-hour television show that aired from 1985 to 1994 and was based on the magazine. Like the magazine, it focused on science and nature, and aired initially on CBC, and then later on CTV.

References

  1. ↑ "Owlkids: Then and Now". owlkids.com.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Christopher Shulgan (June 27, 2011). "OWL Magazine Turns 35". ParentCentral.
  4. ↑ Susan Krashinsky (June 29, 2011). "OWL Survives in a Challenged Magazine World". The Globe and Mail.
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