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The Youth's Companion (1827–1929), known in later years as simply The Companion—For All the Family, was an American children's magazine that existed for over one hundred years until it finally merged with The American Boy in 1929. The Companion was published in Boston, Massachusetts by Perry Mason & Co., later renamed "Perry Mason Company ...
The Children's Friend was a British journal for children, in monthly parts, first published in 1824. [1] It was founded by Rev. William Carus Wilson (1791–1859), [1] who was based near Kirkby Lonsdale where the journal was initially printed. Carus Wilson is perhaps best known for being portrayed negatively as Mr Brocklehurst in Charlotte ...
Numerous magazines and annuals for children were published in Britain from the mid-19th century onward. Many of the magazines produced their own annuals, which sometimes shared the name of the magazine exactly, as Little Folks, or slightly modified, as The Boy's Own Paper and The Girl's Own Paper (first-listed below).
The Children's Encyclopædia. The Goblins in the Gold-Mine. The Children's Encyclopædia was an encyclopaedia originated by Arthur Mee, and published by the Educational Book Company, a subsidiary of Northcliffe 's Amalgamated Press, London. It was published from 1908 to 1964. Walter M. Jackson 's company Grolier acquired the rights to publish ...
Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader, from picture books for the very young to young adult fiction.
This is a list of British periodicals established in the 19th century, excluding daily newspapers.. The periodical press flourished in the 19th century: the Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals plans to eventually list more 100,000 titles; the current Series 3 lists 73,000 titles. 19th-century periodicals have been the focus of extensive indexing efforts, such as that of ...
The Penny Magazine was an illustrated British magazine aimed at the working class, published every Saturday from 31 March 1832 to 31 October 1845. Charles Knight created it for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge in response to Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, which started two months earlier. Sold for only a penny and illustrated ...
1926. (1926) Country. United States. Little Folks was a monthly United States children's magazine for young readers [1] from three to twelve years-old. [2] It was founded by publisher Samuel E. Cassino, and was published between November 1897 and 1926 – originally in Boston, [3] but was later relocated to Salem, Massachusetts. [4]