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In 1980 Children's Digest was sold to the Benjamin Franklin Literary and Medical Society, a nonprofit organization that purchased numerous magazines, including The Saturday Evening Post, Humpty Dumpty, Child Life and Jack and Jill. All of the periodicals were reformatted to emphasize health, safety, nutrition and exercise. [2]
Benjamin Henry Day Jr. (March 7, 1838 [1] – August 30, 1916) was an illustrator and printer, best known for his invention of Ben-Day dots. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Day was the son of Benjamin Henry Day , an American newspaper publisher best known for founding the New York Sun , the first penny press newspaper in the United States, in 1833.
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).
In one article, the magazine said children were exposed to 3,000 ads a day. [4] The magazine did not run any advertisements. [2] It changed its name from Penny Power to Zillions because penny suggested its readers had limited consumer power. [4] A 1982 review of the magazine praised its child appeal and value as a teaching tool in schools. [5]
Playdays (known as Playbus until December 1989) is a British preschool television programme which ran from 1988 to 1997 on Children's BBC.The show was the successor to Play School and, like its predecessor, was designed as an educational programme.
Three episodes depict B-26 WWII airplane at Green air museum
Finding Out: The modern magazine for young people everywhere was a British weekly educational magazine for children. Its readership was worldwide, but mainly in Britain and the Commonwealth. First published in 1962 by Purnell and Sons Ltd, [1] for several years it was a competitor to Look and Learn