KAZOO magazine

03/30/2022

NEWSFLASH: Seeing any story without proper context is like looking at the entire world through a peephole. Swipe for the full picture. ➡️ Our kids spend so much time on screens (even at school), so teaching them media literacy is more important than ever. In our Action issue, we remind readers that when you hear a story that sounds especially scary or surprising, ask 3 big questions: 1) Who is telling this story? 2) Why am I hearing this story now? 3) Who or what is missing from this story? Only by digging a little deeper can you respond in a smart way. Then we asked @cnn’s @lisalingstagram to drop in & share her best advice: “Always ask questions. And try to be aware of what’s happening around you and in the world. You’ll really be able to add to the conversation when you’re aware.” (See the full “The Fox’s News” feature in Kazoo 10, the Action issue, available in our shop. Then, share with your old high school pals on Facebook. 😉) #kazoomagazine #medialiteracy #teachingmedialiteracy

03/29/2022

✨whoa ohoh it’s magic✨ Every magician needs a trusty prop & you’ll learn to make this DIY disappearing box, plus a ton of other tricks from real-life NYC magician @tanyasolomonmagic 🪄 in our Magic issue, #24. To get this issue, subscribe now. #magic #magictricksforkids #magiciansofinstagram #keepmakingmagic

03/28/2022

In case you missed our Newsletter: Flower-spotting, book recs, and an octopus video, just posted at Kazoo magazine. Link in bio. #kidsmagazine #kidlit #kidsbookstagram #feministkids #kazoonews

03/28/2022

Turns out that painting the portrait of @michelleobama is only one amazing thing about artist Amy Sherald’s remarkable life. She also had a heart transplant at age 39 that gave her a new chance at life—and art. ❤️ She went on to paint beautiful pictures of Black people like her, not just famous folks, but everyday people, to share their stories. If a stranger caught her eye, she’d ask to paint them. 🖼 Eventually her work caught First Lady Michelle Obama’s eye, & she asked @asherald to paint her official portrait. It was a very big deal. 😍 In our maze in issue #23, readers can follow along to find out how they too can create something that lasts forever. Amy told our readers: “Dear Noisemakers, The world is full of quitters. If you don’t give up on putting your artwork in the world, you’ll eventually rise to the top.” 💪🏾✨🏆 Amy’s artwork now hangs in some of the world’s biggest museums & we’re thrilled to share her story in our National Magazine award-finalist Art issue #23, now available in our shop. // #kazoomagazine #kazoo23 #obamaportraits #michelleobamaportrait #michelleobama #amysherald #womenartists #blackwomenartists #blackgirlmagic #artwithkids #artteachersofinstagram #teachingart (Amy Sherald, as a kid, 🖍 by @lucyknisley.)

03/23/2022

Hello Facebook Friends! Flower-spotting, book recs, and an octopus video, plus some other March News from Kazoo: https://mailchi.mp/d598cd9f7f9b/march-news-from-kazoo

03/09/2022

Turns out that painting the portrait of @michelleobama is only one amazing thing about artist Amy Sherald’s remarkable life. She also had a heart transplant at age 39 that gave her a new chance at life—and art. ❤️ She went on to paint beautiful pictures of Black people like her, not just famous folks, but everyday people, to share their stories. If a stranger caught her eye, she’d ask to paint them. 🖼 Eventually her work caught First Lady Michelle Obama’s eye, & she asked @asherald to paint her official portrait. It was a very big deal. 😍 Amy told our readers: “Dear Noisemakers, The world is full of quitters. If you don’t give up on putting your artwork in the world, you’ll eventually rise to the top.” 💪🏾✨🏆 Amy’s artwork now hangs in some of the world’s biggest museums & we’re thrilled to share her story as the maze in our National Magazine award-finalist Art issue #23, now available in our shop. // #kazoomagazine #kazoo23 #obamaportraits #michelleobamaportrait #michelleobama #amysherald #womenartists #blackwomenartists #blackgirlmagic #artwithkids #artteachersofinstagram #teachingart (Amy Sherald, as a kid, 🖍 by @lucyknisley.)

03/07/2022

🕊 It is hard to know how to talk to our kids about war, and heartbreaking that we even have to. It’s easy to talk about peace ☮️ though. One way to begin the discussion is through art. Art Historian Carol Wells, Executive Director of The Center for the Study Of Political Graphics, taught us that “Art is more than something pretty. It helps people see the world in a different way.” And she shared tips w our young readers on how to use art to change the world. 🌎 A thoughtful interview and activity for children who have questions about Ukraine 🇺🇦 . Also see @politicalgraphics for inspirational #standwithukraine posts. 👉 From Kazoo’s Art Issue #23. This 2x National Magazine Award Finalist issue is now available as a single issue in our shop. (#carolwells illustration by @lucyknisley) #kazoomagazine #kazooart #kazoo23 #politicalgraphics #kidsmagazine #teachingpeace

02/28/2022

Extra Extra: Kazoo has been nominated for 2 National Magazine Awards 🏆 by The American Society of Magazine Editors. These awards are the most prestigious in journalism. According to @asme1963, 224 media organizations submitted entries this year, including 486 in print, 484 in digital and 104 in multiplatform. Launched in 2016, Kazoo is now a 5x finalist, winning the biggest award for General Excellence—Special Interest in 2019. Kazoo’s Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Erin Bried, will attend the ceremony honoring the winners in NYC atBrooklyn Steel on April 5, 2022, if she can find a babysitter and something to wear. (Cover of The Art Issue w Art by @lucyknisley , “Ellie” award sculpture by #alexandercalder) #kazoomagazine #nationalmagazineawards #asmeawards

02/25/2022

Kazoo News: February Update

Our February News: In which we go behind the music for Let it Go, link to the best kids books for Black History Month, & share an activity to inspire world peace: https://kazoomagazine.com/blogs/news/kazoo-news-february-update

February Update: Frozen 3: Inspired by watching some of the Winter Olympics, Kazoo's Tiny and Teeny Editors have gotten into ice skating, which means I'm on skates, too—for the first time in forever. One of the best and also most humbling things about parenting is remembering how to fall. (Notice ...

02/17/2022

#tbt February 2020. By my smile, you can see I had no idea what the next 2 yrs would bring. 🦠😷😔 /// I was blissfully unaware & just filming a lil video for my publisher about our book Noisemakers, which was to come out w @knopfkids later that month. (As you can imagine the book release was *not great*, since at about that time the entire world changed.) I never posted these clips, but scrolling through videos on my phone today, it’s nice to remember this person and see this smile. (And, I’m still really proud of our collection of true-tales comics about extraordinary women, too. 💪💅🏻🌈) I know we all had different experiences of the pandemic, but I think most of us have been changed in some way. Whatever these past 2 yrs have been like for you and your children, I so hope you can all find your biggest smiles again soon. 😁😁😁 I have been finding mine more and more these days. ❤️ Xo, Erin #noisemakers #smiles #tbt

02/15/2022

In a 2020 survey, 71% of parents said the pandemic had taken a toll on their child’s mental health. How are your kids feeling?

We've heard that the "Emotions Map" from our sold-out first issue has helped readers all over the world navigate complex situations. Since we've had a ton of requests for it, we’re posting the link to download, here. Print it out for your kids (or, you know, yourself.) Find it, here: https://m.imgur.com/UD0HKNM

#kazoomagazine #mentalhealthkids #mentalhealthmatters #mindfullnessforkids #parentingtools #modernparenting #parentingdaughters #resilientkids #takecare

02/11/2022

✨Introducing Kazoo #24: The Magic Issue! ✨ Because magic is about more than card tricks & wands. It’s all around us every day, & if you look closely, the world will always remind you of it. Be prepared to be astonished. 

⚡️Magic Issue Highlights:
• Learn how stars ⭐️ twinkle (and why we wish upon them)
• Create levitating art 🧶 that floats in mid-air
• Bake sugar cookies 🍪that'll vanish instantly
• Explore a cabinet of curiosities by @lucyknisley 🧚‍♀️
• Watch one real-life creature transform into another before your eyes 🐛
• Master easy magic tricks to astonish your friends 🪄
• Build a magic box with a secret compartment 🎁
• Read a comic about the world's greatest magician 🤹‍♀️
• Get lost in a short story about a girl and a fairy 📚
• Plus: a secret code, a spot-the-difference, a maze, word puzzles, coloring 🖍and more!  
Featured Experts: Astrophysicist and folklorist @goastromo Moiya McTier, Ph.D.; entomologist @jessicaleeware42 Jessica Ware, Ph.D.; artist @janetechelman; @levainbakery Bakery co-owners Pamela Weekes & Connie McDonald; magician @tanya.solomon. 
Short Story Contributor: Newbery Medal winner @erinentrada Erin Entrada Kelly, author of Hello, Universe & We Dream of Space
Comic Contributor: @esofiii Sophie Escabasse, author of Witches of Brooklyn 🧙‍♀️
Specs: 64 full-color pages
Cover Art: #AmyBlackwell
#kazoomagazine #indiemagazine #kidsmagazine #kidlit #childrensbooks #makesomemagic #believe

02/02/2022

Kazoo's "Art issue" is up for another "Best Cover of the Year" award from American Society of Magazine Editors. The art world has long been a bastion of male power, where gender parity is still a dream. Of the artists represented in the collections of America’s most prestigious museums, 87% are men. Of course, an 8-year-old girl with a box of crayons doesn’t know that. She just knows that she loves to draw. Our Art Issue is for her, in hopes that by following the lead of the amazing artists we've featured here, she'll grow into a very different art world.

Because we know our readers like to color our covers, we made this one interactive. Illustrated by New York Times bestseller Lucy Knisley, it gives our young readers their very own gallery opening, complete with an adoring crowd.

Click through to our cover and "like" to vote for Kazoo!

KAZOO magazine

02/02/2022

Kazoo is up for a "Best Cover of the Year" award from the American Society of Magazine Editors. For our "Big" issue, we show our love & support for our #aapi communities, acknowledge what a huge, emotional year it’s been for our young readers, and encourage our girls to always take up as much space as they need. Cover illustration by @priooor.

Click our cover and "like" to vote for Kazoo!

KAZOO magazine

02/01/2022

As we’re putting the finishing touches on our 24th (!!!) issue, we’re getting a little nostalgic & looking back at our launch. Remember this first editor’s letter (& amazing illustration by @libbyvanderploeg)? I had just left @condenast after almost 20 yrs (where I started my career as an assistant & worked as a staff writer for many yrs, eventually becoming an editor-at-large) & I was excited (& terrified) to start this new adventure by launching Kazoo. We worked w these huge legends in our 1st issue—@jacqueline_woodson, @alisonbechdel, @mickalenethomas, @diananyad, @cronindoreen, @maya, among others—& as proud as I am of it, I know every issue has been better than the last. Thank you for reading! Here’s to many more years of fun! Xo, Erin

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉#kazoomagazine #childrensmagazine #feministkids #raisingfeminists #thefutureisfemale #girlsmagazine #raisingdaughters #kidlit

01/31/2022

👏👏👏 Yay for a new week. Have a great Monday. (Full instructions on how to make your own pocket-sized applause machine in Kazoo #15 the Confidence issue.) #kazoomagazine #automaton hat-tip to #robives #plsclap

01/29/2022

Hello! For @real_simple, my adorable mom and I once shared a fav family recipe: Cornish Pasties! Now I make them w my daughters. Read all about (and get the recipe) in the latest Kazoo News, at link in bio. #kazoomagazine #pasty #cornishpasties #beefpasty #pasties #beefpasties #comfortfood #wintermeals #cookingwithkids

01/27/2022

KAZOO magazine updated their address.

KAZOO magazine updated their address.

01/25/2022

Kazoo’s “Swing Thing,” a kinetic energy rubber-band toy that’s easy to make & fun to watch. This tinker project from our Happiness issue illustrates potential energy and also what it feels like to find flow. #kineticenergy #physicstoy #rubberbandtoy #physicsfun #homeschoolscience #sciencewithkids #scienceisawesome