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When Girls Run, Girls Win! by Kazoo magazine w Elizabeth Warren

Kazoo magazine recently endorsed Elizabeth Warren for president, and to our great surprise, she not only endorsed Kazoo right back but also recorded this very powerful message for our young readers. Please pass it on. // Then, read Kazoo's full endorsement of Warren (posted at Medium). No matter who your candidate is, get involved and help build a better, brighter future for our children. Our democracy is stronger when we all #makesomenoise !!! #kazoomagazine #warren2020 #whengirlsrungirlswin #ElizabethWarren #noisemakers #sheshouldrun (Special thanks to @jamesbestiv, creator of #nokidsincages and @valerie_best for sharing our endorsement with Senator Warren.)

Our book comes out next week & the early reviews are 🔥🔥🔥! “Perfectly-timed, positive and righteously fun.” (Comics Beat) and “Vital reading for comic fans.” (TheAVClub) and “A draw-dropping line-up of comics talent.” (The Comics Journal). #Noisemakers officially pubs on Feb, 4, 2020. Available in hard-cover or paperback at your local bookshop and everywhere online. #kazoomagazine #kazoonoisemakers #womenwhodraw #knopfbooksforyoungreaders #randomhousegraphic #womeninhistory @knopfkids

Happy 2020! We’ve got a ton planned for this year, including our new book, #noisemakers, which comes out next month. 👏👏👏 It’s already Thursday—just a two-day week. You got this. Get out there and #makesomenoise. 🎉🎉🎉#kazoomagazine #kazoonoisemakers #raiseyourvoicechangetheworld @rhkidsgraphic @knopfkids

🎁🎁🎁 Instructions: 1. Subscribe at kazoomagazine.com/subscribe (use code “HEYFAM” for 10% off ‼️) 2. Cut out and fold box. 3. Place the tiny Kazoo cover inside 4. Tape closed 5. Delight a kid! // (JSYK Our printer has been urging us to include one of these “bind-in cards” in every issue, & until now we’ve resisted because we don’t like them. Honestly, who does? But, they must work bc literally every magazine has them & we do need to remind ppl to resubscribe so our little indie can keep going and growing. So we thought about how we might do it & *also* make it a fun activity. We came up with this cut-and-fold gift box insert. The bonus is our readers get to *do something* w this card. What do you think? 👍 or 👎? ) #kazoomagazine #magazinepublishing #kidsmagazine #printmedia #supportindependentmedia #printisnotdead #printwillneverdie #happyholidays

As you fly into this weekend, remember that you are loved. ✨❤️✨ (Easy instructions for this flying heart, and 2 other simple #camtoy #crankie toys in issue 6, “The Steampunk Issue.”) #kazoomagazine #youareloved #lovelovelove

Kazoo 15: "The Confidence Issue" Super Fast Preview

Everybody needs a little confidence boost sometimes. That’s why we’ve stuffed our 15th issue, the Confidence Issue, with fun activities, time-tested tools, and inspiring advice from some of the world’s most powerful women. (On stands and in subscribers' mailboxes December 2019.) In this issue, readers will: • Read an original short story by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, Newbery Honor winner and #1 NYT Bestselling author of The War That Saved My Life • Find out what it takes to win from Lindsey Vonn, world champion ski racer • Master their confidence with Stacey Abrams, former Georgia gubernatorial candidate and founder of Fair Fight • Make a DIY chocolate casting with Kristen Visbal, bronze sculptor of the world-famous Fearless Girl statue • Find out how to push through hard moments from Tatyana McFadden, winner of 23 major marathons and 17 Paralympic medals • Find their voices and learn to amplify friends with Valerie Jarrett, senior advisor to former President Barack Obama • Get a history lesson from Alitha E. Martinez, Eisner and GLAAD Award-winning artist of World of Wakanda, with a feature comic about "Stagecoach Mary" • Learn to tackle big challenges with Henny Admoni, roboticist from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University • Wonder at how baby animals learn from Shannon Borders, assistant curator at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium • Strike a pose with Leiomy Maldonado, dancer known as the "Wonder Woman of Vogue" and choreographer for the hit TV show Pose • Color-by-dot with Kathie Sever, owner of the custom western-wear and chain-stitch embroidery studio Ft. Lonesome • Learn "How to Draw a Horse" with Emma Hunsinger, whose recent New Yorker comic on the subject became a viral sensation • Make an ice-cream baked potato for dessert! And Cowboy Caviar, with two delightful recipes from NYC's Cowgirl Restaurant BONUS: Learn how to launch a rocket and make a pocket-sized wind-up clapping machine for a round of applause anytime. Plus, games,

Halloween Greetings! (From our house to yours!) 🎃👻🎃 Now what to do w all this candy?

Who remembers delighting their friends w this trick in grade school? You can use math to draw stunning curves w straight lines! (From our math feature in Kazoo 14, “The Awesome Issue,” on stands now. ) #kazoomagazine #kazooawesome #mathisbeautiful #mathforkids

🔊🔊🔊Reminder: Today is a good day to use whatever you’ve got to #makesomenoise 🥁🤟🎉(#diydrum from #kazoomagazine 10, “The Action Issue.” This and all back-issues available at link in bio.) #tincanband #diyinstruments #drumlife #musiccrafts #drumcrafts

“No one is too small to have an impact.” That’s why we’re joining Kazoo contributor @gretathunberg on Friday in NYC for Global Climate Strike. People in 142 countries across the 🌎 are taking to the streets to demand action. Are you participating? If so, let us know in the comments where you plan to #makesomenoise. You can find events near you or register your own at Fridaysforfuture.org. And if you can’t go, pick up a copy of Kazoo’s Great Green Issue (#13) to learn other fun ways to celebrate the earth. We’re all in this together. #fridaysforfuture #climatestrike #schoolstrike4climate #maketheearthhappy

A diddley-bow is a one-stringed DIY instrument that’s as fun to play as it is to say. Here’s how you make one using a scrap piece of wood, screws, a wire, & some nuts and bolts. Just strum the string and press anything smooth along the wire to change the pitch. This ol’ instrument can be made w just about anything. In the American south in the early 1900s, children would nail a broom wire to the side of a house and play it w a bottle. We made this one for our Awesome Issue to demonstrate the awesome power of live music—turns out just hearing it changes your brain! #kazoomagazine #makesomenoise #makesomemusic #kazoohowto #diddleybow #diydiddleybow #canjo #homemadeguitar #homemadeinstruments #kidsmusic #kazooawesome

We were lucky to see the @resistancerevivalchorus perform at a march in Brooklyn, so we knew we had to include them in our Awesome Issue. Every day we remember their message: Joy is an act of resistance. // #kazoomagazine #makesomenoise #sharesomejoy //#Repost @resistancerevivalchorus with @get_repost ・・・ "Well I went down to the NRA and I took back what they stole from me/ Took it back (Took back my dignity)/ Took it back (Took back my humanity)/ Now he's under my feet, under my feet/ Under my feet, under my feet/ Ain't gonna let the system walk all over me" ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Every time we sing "Rich Man's House," a song from the labor movement, we switch up the lyrics: Went down to the/governor's house, jailhouse, border, White House. Yesterday, after the terrorism of this weekend's truly horrific mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton that occurred within 24 hours of each other, there was no question we'd be calling out the NRA and when we did, you could *feel* it land in the crowd. As chorus member @katequarfordt described it, "The whole place got electric with emotion." ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Use that emotion. We should all be outraged. There is no reason for anyone to own an assault weapon in this country. They are weapons of war designed and developed for a specific military purpose. Their only purpose outside of a battlefield is mass murder and mayhem. Call Congress: 202-225-3121 and 202-224-3121

Seems like a good time to play the blues! We hooked this #diddleybow up to a pick-up & little @loogguitars speaker and 😜🎸🤘🔥 (though it works great unplugged too). The Tiny Editor loves playing around w it, but our EIC really jams. 😂 😂😂 Full instructions on how to make this #canjo #diyguitar in Issue #14, The Awesome Issue. (W thanks to @brooklynlutherie for the help.) #kazoomagazine #makesomenoise #noisemakers #diddleybow #diydiddleybow #diyinstruments #slideguitar #blues #tunacandiddleybow #musicwithkids #kidsmusic

Kazoo magazine 14: The Awesome Issue! preview

Super fast preview video of our next issue, The Awesome Issue, coming in September. To get it, subscribe now, or check stands at Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, and indies nationwide. #kazoomagazine

🔊🔊🔊and TY 🙏 @beyonce #blueivycarter for this beauty (upon beauty upon beauty) you’ve added to the world. ❤️ 🙌🙌🙌 #brownskingirl #thelionking

DIY Heart String Art from #kazoomagazine’s Great Green Issue. ❤️❤️❤️ Let this work of art, made from string and wood, remind you how we’re all connected. #kazoohowto #stringart #kidscrafts

🔊🔊🔊 Last year, I had the honor of interviewing chef and civil rights activist Leah Chase. She was 95 years old at the time and as you can hear from the pots and pans in the background of this clip, she was still cooking everyday in the kitchen of her New Orleans restaurant, Dooky Chase. “In some ways, right in this restaurant, we changed the course of America,” she told me. She shared her recipe for butter cake, which we ran in issue #10, and told me stories about the Freedom Riders (“They’d talk, see what they were going to do next, go to jail and come right back for more fried chicken and gumbo”). She talked about Martin Luther King, Jr. (“He was not a man to sit down and enjoy a meal. He was always on the move”). She told me how privileged she felt that every great performer of the day—Count Basie, Lena Horne, Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Lionel Hampton—all ate at her place, and she remembered each of their orders. And she talked about meeting Barack Obama (“He’s a wonderful man, a man who thought about people. And that’s the kind of people you have to elect as leaders”). Now, listen to the end of our interview here, where she shares her best advice for living. I like to think of her as walking over that rainbow and finally finding her big old pot of gold. May we all aspire to live our lives as she lived hers. 🌈Thank you. RIP. 🙏#leahchase #ripleahchase #dookychase #queenofcreole #neworleans #civilrights #civilrightshero #kazoomagazine (🖍: @goodgollyetc)

This easy-make solar oven is a great way to teach kids about solar power AND make some tasty treats. ☀️☀️☀️ We’ve made peach crisp, s’mores, and these box brownies (w egg beaters). Full instructions in Kazoo’s “Great Green Issue,” out now, plus a full how-to video on our YouTube. (https://youtu.be/sYM0NwuqgcM) Put this on your summer to-do list. #solar #solarpower #solaroven #solarcooking #sunoven #scienceexperiment #sciencecrafts #summerscience #stemgirls #sciencegirls #shoeboxcrafts #easybakeoven #summerfun #summeryum #kazoomagazine #makesomenoise #makesomesolaroventreats

Peek inside Kazoo #13. Featuring “20 Ways to Love the Earth Today!” ❤️🌎🌱🌊💪😍 #kazoomagazine #thefutureisgreen #makesomenoise #plantsometrees #ecokids #greenparenting #ecoparenting #savetheplanet🌍

🎉Kazoo Book Club🎉 Pierre, by Maurice Sendak. “There once was a boy named Pierre, who only would say ‘I don’t care!’ Read his story, my friend, for you’ll find at the end that a suitable moral lies there.” Pierre doesn’t care, and nothing his parents do can change that. Even when they leave and a hungry lion arrives, Pierre just doesn’t care. “I can eat you, don’t you see? I don’t care! And you will be inside of me. I don’t care!” Spoiler alert: The lion eats Pierre. And, sitting there in that lion’s stomach, Pierre has a change of heart. He decides to care. ❤️❤️❤️ We’ve always really identified with Pierre, but, honestly, never more so than now. Is it just us or have last three years felt like the dark, terrifying cave of a lion’s stomach? But, here’s the thing: As we feel our way around in there, we’re learning things. Just like Pierre, we’re learning to care. We can see it in the line that stretches around the block at the polling place. We can see it in the full boxes of canned goods at our schools and the thoughtful way our teachers teach our children. We can see it in the lively interest our friends take in politics, both national and local, and the support we give each other when that lively interest starts to feel like despair. It can be scary out there, and sometimes it feels overwhelmingingly so. But Sendak gives his readers a moral, and it’s the best one of all: CARE! Let’s keep going, Noisemakers. Even when the going gets tough, let’s keep caring. Let’s make it cool to care! #kazoomagazine #makesomenoise #kazoobookclub #noisemakers #girlsmagazine #kidslit #childrensliterature #kidsbookreview #kidsbooksofinstagram #mauricesendak #nutshelllibrary #makeitcooltocare #CARE! #pierre Book review by @valerie_best

Friend of Kazoo (and our indie inspiration) @anidifranco reminds us, “Hope is everywhere.” This month, Ani is hitting the road w her memoir “No Walls and the Recurring Dream.” (You can pick it up at your local bookstore.) And catch this whole wonderful session from @pastemagazine here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pftTeEfUUDU. #kazoomagazine #anidifranco #nowallsandtherecurringdream #hopeiseverywhere #pastestudionyc #righteousbabe #mondaymotivation

🔊SOUND ON 🔊for this lovely review from @slate’s parenting podcast. “Kazoo is really smart and well done and obviously reflects very smart choices made by people who actually understand what’s engaging to girls of that age and well worth checking out.” 😊😊😊Thank you, Gabriel Roth, host of Slate’s “Mom and Dad are Fighting” podcast! #kazoomagazine #slateparenting #slatepodcasts #momanddadarefighting

Happy #caturday! “How to Draw a Cat” by @alisonbechdel, from Kazoo’s very first issue, which sold out immediately. #alisonbechdel #comics #catstowatchoutfor #DTWOF #CTWOF #kazoomagazine

TBH I was so nervous/excited I didn’t even *see* this video when they played it on the big screen at the #Ellie’s ceremony. I love these highlights, which include the very best of #kazoomagazine issues 9, 10, 11. (Find the full video, with all the other amazing nominees, on @asme1963’s YouTube.) #asme #generalexcellence #nationalmagazineaward #makesomenoise

A mom once asked me, “If I lift up my daughter, what will happen to my son?” I’m often asked variations of this question, and have struggled w how to answer this, because I think it’s not a valid question. Friend of Kazoo, @roxanegay74, does it perfectly here in a recent interview on #QandA. We’ve clipped it here but encourage you to find the whole and watch it. (If you don’t already, follow @rgay on twitter, and buy all of her books, too.) #badfeminist #kazoomagazine #roxanegay

Happy Monday! Get out there and discover something wonderful. #mondaymotivation #kazoomagazine (Our Explorers issue #12 is on stands now. Featuring @cherylstrayed @karinaisreadingandwriting MilkMade Ice Cream @polarann59 Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant Science in the Wild @canopymeg Charles Darwin Foundation and more. 64 pages, no ads, 💯awesomeness. )

Happy International Women’s Day! Today and everyday, we are so grateful to all the amazing and powerful women who, when asked to be a part of our tiny magazine, say “Yes!” not for the glamour of it (😂) but because they know how important it is to help inspire girls to follow in their footsteps and show them that they too can change the world. There are too many to name but on #iwd2019, we want to say THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU #RBG, Ellen DeGeneres, the Jane Goodall Institute, @therealmargaretatwood, @mistyonpointe, @elizabethwarren, @shondarhimes, @mickalenethomas, Senator Tammy Duckworth, @cherylstrayed, Ani DiFranco, @doloreshuerta, Shalane Flanagan, Mission Blue’s Sylvia Earle and every other scientist, engineer, athlete, writer, artist, comedian and chef who’s been a part of Kazoo. And thanks to Kazoo contributor Libbyvanderploeg for capturing all of our❤️❤️❤️ and putting it into gif form. And thanks to our talented team of women who put their ❤️s into making every issue beautiful: @andiediemer, @freeze_bae, sah-rah.com, @lizchaaan, @joycekehl. We’re a women-run, women-owned business and we’re grateful for YOUR support too—every post, every tweet, every recommendation means so much to us. You lift us up. We’re so proud to be a part of this powerful sisterhood. #kazoomagazine #makesomenoise #equalityforall #loveoneanother

Happy International Women’s Day! Today and everyday, we are so grateful to all the amazing and powerful women who, when asked to be a part of our tiny magazine, say “Yes!” not for the glamour of it (😂) but because they know how important it is to help inspire girls to follow in their footsteps and show them that they too can change the world. There are too many to name but on #iwd2019, we want to say THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU #RBG, Ellen DeGeneres, the Jane Goodall Institute, @therealmargaretatwood, @mistyonpointe, @elizabethwarren, @shondarhimes, @mickalenethomas, Senator Tammy Duckworth, @cherylstrayed, Ani DiFranco, @doloreshuerta, Shalane Flanagan, Mission Blue’s Sylvia Earle and every other scientist, engineer, athlete, writer, artist, comedian and chef who’s been a part of Kazoo. And thanks to Kazoo contributor Libbyvanderploeg for capturing all of our❤️❤️❤️ and putting it into gif form. And thanks to our talented team of women who put their ❤️s into making every issue beautiful: @andiediemer, @freeze_bae, sah-rah.com, @lizchaaan, @joycekehl. We’re a women-run, women-owned business and we’re grateful for YOUR support too—every post, every tweet, every recommendation means so much to us. You lift us up. We’re so proud to be a part of this powerful sisterhood. #kazoomagazine #makesomenoise #equalityforall #loveoneanother

Do you remember reading the story about Shaba, the baby elephant, in our Happy Issue? Reteti Elephant Sanctuary Community United for Elephants co-founder @katie.rowe climbed into a stack of tires in baby Shaba’s stable and talked to her for hours and hours until Shaba trusted her enough to accept a bottle. It was Shaba’s first drink in the 5 days since she lost her mom to poachers. Since then, Shaba has become the mother figure to all of Reteti’s other orphaned baby elephants. Here she is, saying hi. If you have a few minutes, head over to Reteti Elephant Sanctuary Community United for Elephants and watch some vids of baby 🐘 drinking from 🍼s. (They drink 2 liters every 3 hours around the clock.) As Katie says, “We are all connected, and we must look after each other.” ❤️❤️❤️ #Repost Reteti Elephant Sanctuary Community United for Elephants with @get_repost #kazoomagazine ・・・ “Hello, everyone!” says Shaba. Hope you're having a wonderful day! Video by Ami Vitale Conservation International glassybaby @kenyawildlifeservice @nrt_kenya Elephant Cooperation Life is Good @yachakyerbamate San Diego Zoo Tusk MagicalKenya @tourismkenya #protectelephants #bekindtoelephants #DontLetThemDisappear #elephants #saveelephants #stoppoaching #kenya #northernkenya #magicalkenya #whyilovekenya #africa #everydayafrica

Do you remember reading the story about Shaba, the baby elephant, in our Happy Issue? Reteti Elephant Sanctuary Community United for Elephants co-founder @katie.rowe climbed into a stack of tires in baby Shaba’s stable and talked to her for hours and hours until Shaba trusted her enough to accept a bottle. It was Shaba’s first drink in the 5 days since she lost her mom to poachers. Since then, Shaba has become the mother figure to all of Reteti’s other orphaned baby elephants. Here she is, saying hi. If you have a few minutes, head over to Reteti Elephant Sanctuary Community United for Elephants and watch some vids of baby 🐘 drinking from 🍼s. (They drink 2 liters every 3 hours around the clock.) As Katie says, “We are all connected, and we must look after each other.” ❤️❤️❤️ #Repost Reteti Elephant Sanctuary Community United for Elephants with @get_repost #kazoomagazine ・・・ “Hello, everyone!” says Shaba. Hope you're having a wonderful day! Video by Ami Vitale Conservation International glassybaby @kenyawildlifeservice @nrt_kenya Elephant Cooperation Life is Good @yachakyerbamate San Diego Zoo Tusk MagicalKenya @tourismkenya #protectelephants #bekindtoelephants #DontLetThemDisappear #elephants #saveelephants #stoppoaching #kenya #northernkenya #magicalkenya #whyilovekenya #africa #everydayafrica

Kazoo 12: The Explorers Issue! Super Fast Preview

OTW: Super Fast Preview of Kazoo #12, The Explorers Issue! This one is all about staying curious, seeing the world, and sharing what we've learned. We've turned to some of the most remarkable explorers of modern times. Legendary polar adventurer Ann Bancroft (Bancroft Arnesen Explore) will inspire our readers to go wherever their hearts lead them. Writer Cheryl Strayed (Cheryl Strayed) who hiked alone for 94 days on the Pacific Crest Trail (and chronicled her journey in her book Wild), will help readers find courage when they need it most. Bestselling author of The Vanderbeekers series Karina Yan Glaser (Karina Yan Glaser) shares a thrilling short story about a city girl who learns to love the forest, and taste-explorer Diana Hardeman (MilkMade Ice Cream) shares her flavor inspiration, and a recipe for the sweetest treat. And artist (Lucy Knisley) drops by to share a grid draw of maybe the greatest adventure of all. Within our 64 pages of fun, comics, and games, we're also featuring other women explorers who've travelled the world. They each remind us all of how astonishing life can be. Now, it's our turn to be inspired, pay attention, and, as always, keep on making noise. As always, 64 full-color pages, 100% ad-free. **SUBSCIRBERS: This will hit your mailbox in March 2019.** To get this issue, subscribe now: www.kazoomagazine.com

Happy Valentine’s Day! We love you! ❤️ (This origami heart how-to from our Happy Issue #11) #happyvalentinesday #happygalentinesday #kazoomagazine #lovewins🌈

We print our magazine in the USA (even though it costs more than printing in China), so we don’t have the waste of shipping it back around the world, and we get to give our business to a great small press in Burlington, VT, #lanepress. But another reason we love our printer so much is that we sometimes make a family trip of it and get to sneak a day of snowboarding in the fresh air @Stowemt. 🏂 This week, our Tiny Editor took a lesson in the ski school there, and on the entrance it says, “When was the last time you did something for the first time?” It’s easy to forget that our kids do this *all the time* and they inspire us to try something new, enjoy the process of learning, and no matter how many times we fall, to get back up again. Here’s Ellie popping right back up after a fall on the #easymile, and she is getting her turns, while I cruise behind her. (Sorry for the shaky video—my ❤️ almost exploded watching her go!) We’re now back in Brooklyn, and I’m back at my desk, but I’m going to keep this feeling with me, and remember to try something new. xo, Erin #kazoomagazine #girlsmagazine #stowemt #stowevt #ridevt #snowboarding #snowboardingwithkids #snowboardingwomen #girlswhoboard #girlswhosnowboard #littlesnowboarder

When my book "How to Sew a Button" came out 10 yrs ago, I was on #TheTodayShow, the Katie Couric Show, Fox, & NPR to talk about how we should all know basic home-ec skills that our grandmothers knew. Listen, I LOVE that book. I do think *everyone* should have the life skills to care for themselves & their families. I especially *loved* interviewing the 10 fierce grandmothers, all of whom lived through the Great Depression, about their spectacular lives. But I know "How to Sew a Button" also reinforces a belief that most ppl are comfortable with: girls, especially, should know how to be homemakers. And so, it was easy to get on TV to talk about it. Here I am laughing about pie. For the past 2.5 yrs, I’ve been publishing Kazoo, "a magazine for girls who aren’t afraid to make some noise,” & we’ve featured some of the most influential women leaders in the country, including RBG, Ellen, Elizabeth Warren, Misty Copeland, Shonda “I am the candy” Rhimes, Dolores Huerta, Margaret Atwood & so many others. Unlike "How to Sew a Button," Kazoo is about teaching girls to be LOUD. We’ve made history too: We were the highest-funded journalism campaign Kickstarter had ever seen. We were the only kids magazine ever nominated for an ASME for General Excellence and we’ve won 2 Parents’ Choice Gold Awards in a row. And, you guys, The Today Show hasn’t come calling (yet). This week, after seeing a smirking teenager given a national platform on TV, I’ve been thinking more about whose voices get heard & why. I think it’s harder for anyone to get attention for anything that challenges, rather than reinforces, people’s established cultural beliefs. The only way to change the narrative is to create a new one. Right now, for our next issue, I’m interviewing women explorers who’ve traveled the world. You've not likely heard their names either, but they are fascinating. Their stories, my story, your story, all of our stories are worthy and important. Let the TV say what it will about how c

We won another Parents' Choice Gold Award! 🏅Our second! 🏅🏅They say: "There are many exceptional literary and STEM–and STEAM–centered children's magazines out there that I wish I had grown up with; Kazoo, "for girls who aren't afraid to make some noise," is one of them. Every issue of this quarterly encourages young girls to think, get creative, be inspired, and celebrate their strengths through hands-on activities, brainy puzzles, and questions and topics to think about and respond to. In 2018, readers could construct a wooden catapult, a balloon-powered car, and a rubber band-powered motion machine; to explore the laws of motion, they could build an "inertia tower," a "carnival striker," and a Newton's cradle device. Among an eclectic roster of notable women profiled (many in graphic novel style) were Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Eleanor Roosevelt, Julia Child, civil rights activist Dolores Huerta, Rosa Parks, Ellen DeGeneres, and New York chef and restauranteur Libby Willis. Themes were reflected in the magazine's cover titles: "The Small but Mighty issue," "The Action Issue," "The Happy Issue," and "The Magnificent Mistakes issue." Artwork and graphics throughout are a visual treat: bright colors, and varied illustrative and font styles in a clean, eye-pleasing design." Thanks @parentschoicefoundation #kazoomagazine #parentschoiceaward #parentschoicegoldaward #parentschoiceaward2019 HT to @mrapinoe for capturing the spirit of our celebration in this gif! #woohoo

When the 116th congress makes you wanna sing. As always, friend of Kazoo Ani DiFranco captures this moment of radical joy. W Resistance Revival Chorus! #gethappy #happinessisradical #kazoomagazine #Repost Ani DiFranco with @get_repost ・・・ To express our gratitude for the 116th Congress, we are sharing this new performance of “Joyful Girl” featuring Resistance Revival Chorus from @thebabefest 2018, a benefit for EMILY's List. Full video at link in bio.

When the 116th congress makes you wanna sing. As always, friend of Kazoo Ani DiFranco captures this moment of radical joy. W Resistance Revival Chorus! #gethappy #happinessisradical #kazoomagazine #Repost Ani DiFranco with @get_repost ・・・ To express our gratitude for the 116th Congress, we are sharing this new performance of “Joyful Girl” featuring Resistance Revival Chorus from @thebabefest 2018, a benefit for EMILY's List. Full video at link in bio.

When the 116th congress makes you wanna sing. As always, friend of Kazoo Ani DiFranco captures this moment of radical joy. W Resistance Revival Chorus! #gethappy #happinessisradical #kazoomagazine #Repost Ani DiFranco with @get_repost ・・・ To express our gratitude for the 116th Congress, we are sharing this new performance of “Joyful Girl” featuring Resistance Revival Chorus from @thebabefest 2018, a benefit for EMILY's List. Full video at link in bio.

📣📣📣 WKZOO interview, part 2. 📣📣📣. In this clip, The Tiny Editor asks me how I found the confidence to launch a magazine, and it took me a minute to find the right words. But I tried. Each of us has the power to make change, and if we show that to our kids, they will be powerful too. Sometimes it's hard to remember that for ourselves or to treat our own power matter-of-factly, but I hope this is something we can all pass on to our children. We taped this while coloring together after dinner one night. (And bonus: You can hear the Teeny Editor in the background.) Scroll to find part 1 of this interview on our page. We'll post more in the next few weeks. #kazoomagazine #girlsmagazine #wkzoo #podcast #kidpodcasts #podcastsforkids #kidcast

Happy Monday, everyone! Reminder: Drink some water! Both of my little editors are off to school after a fever-induced "vacay" last week, so I am happy that they're healthy, and happy to be back at my desk. Let's take this Monday together! #happymonday #mondaymotivation #drinkmorewater