KAZOO magazine

11/12/2025

🗞️🗞️🗞️ SOME GOOD NEWS from The Portland Tribune:

”This Brooklyn-based, award-winning magazine for girls ‘who aren’t afraid to make some noise’ is making noise of its own, pushing back on recent narratives about Portland in its upcoming issue.

Kazoo, a quarterly print magazine, publishes works intended for girls aged 5 to 12, providing them with tools to create, build, explore, dream, play, and ask questions. Many of its subscribers are located in the Rose City.

In each issue, readers can expect a ‘Search and Find’ feature that relates to the issue’s theme in some way. Come December, The Drawing Issue will showcase nods to Portland in celebration of its rich arts and artists while opposing recent claims that the city is war-ravaged. ‘I kept hearing the president on the news disparaging Portland, calling it “a burning hell hole” and claiming it’s “a disaster” and that there are “fires all over the place,” Erin Bried, founder and Editor-in-Chief, said in an email. ‘As we all know, none of that is true and it’s only a pretense for sending in the military.’ Given its young subscriber base, Bried said Kazoo chose to feature Portland in a show of solidarity. ‘It’s not only a fun activity for kids to do, but also a celebration of what makes Portland so special,’ Bried said.” 👏👏👏

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11/09/2025

11/06/2025

Introducing, Kazoo #39, The Drawing Issue.

By just putting pencil to paper, your kids will feel happier, calmer, smarter, and more connected to the people and world around them. 🌈

Perfect for girls who love to make art and have fun. Shipping in late November (just in time for the holidays!). Some highlights:

🔴 Draw Cute!
Learn to draw 25 super-cute things with advice and inspiration from artists Alison Bechdel, Wendy MacNaughton, and Diana Ejaita. With adorable tutorials by Jaclyne Ooi.

🔴 Create a Connection!
Read a short story about a girl who uses her love of drawing to find peace—and make friends, by National Book Award finalist Elana K. Arnold.

🔴 Make Something Great!
Learn how to dress up ramen with a comic recipe featuring our furriest chef yet: Lucy Knisley’s Condiment Raccoon.

🔴 Gain a New Perspective!
See the world through the eyes of dogs, butterflies, and other animals and wonder how vision influences art with integrative biologist Erica Westerman, Ph.D.

🔴 Solve a maze!
And get drawing advice from 2x Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes

🔴Practice cartooning!
Learn how to make faces with cartoonist (and cover artist) Ellen Forney

🔴 Take a tour!
Tour a pencil factory and see how they’re made with General Pencil President Katie Vanoncini

🔴 Tinker something cool!
Make a DIY drawing machine and learn to use it from Etch A Sketch artist Princess Etch

🔴 Read a comic!
Learn the story of the first professional woman cartoonist Rose O’Neill, by artist Wendy Xu

🔴 Plus! A secret code, a search-and-find, a word search, pencil practice, a free tear-out poster, and more!

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11/05/2025

Kazoo News, making noise since 2016. 🎉

In our November newsletter, find out how I almost became internet famous, how to beat the algorithm that is stressing you out, and how to make the worlds best granola. Plus, sneak peek our next issue. 👀

Link in bio.

10/29/2025

The more you practice hoping, the easier it becomes.

Focus on good things to come—and make a plan to make them happen. Start by repeating this phrase out loud. Then, go into the world and show everyone how strong you really are!

And, remember, there are lots of ways to be strong. Some ways you can see from far away, like having big muscles. But all the other ways you can’t see at all, because they’re inside of you. Your kindness, bravery, generosity—they all make you strong too!

Find this and 23 more scientifically proven hopeful things in Kazoo no 36, The Strong Issue, now available as a single copy in our shop.

10/27/2025

🎉 We’re so excited to have made the NYT Wirecutter 2025 “Best Gifts of the Year” list that we’re treating you to an early sale. Get a jump on the holidays and Renew or Gift a Kazoo subscription now for 25% off!

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10/27/2025

Baker dropped by to share her recipe for this extra-fancy apple tart (that’s surprisingly simple to make and perfect to bake w kids).

We asked Yossy if anyone has ever told her that she was too “extra” in any way and she said:

>>>”Yes! Too shy! Too quiet! Throughout my whole life I’ve been reminded of that by my family, friends, and teachers. Loud people often get more attention, but what I’ve learned is that quiet ones deserve it, too. You can be shy and razzle-dazzle, too.”

Get the recipe and read the full interview w in Kazoo magazine’s Razzle-Dazzle issue no 38, on stands now.

10/15/2025

Every issue of contains an original short story featuring a fierce girl character.

Read #1 NYT Bestselling author in our latest issue.

Subscribe to to get this issue delivered to your door. Use code GIRLREAD and save 15%.

10/03/2025

PSA: If you get a chance, GO SEE !!! We caught it this afternoon.

We are so in awe of the amazing librarians in this important film, and we’re proud to have featured one of them, Martha Hickson, in no 27, The Brave Issue. (You can still get a copy in our shop.)

10/02/2025

Jane Goodall, who was kind enough to agree to an interview w Kazoo at our very beginning, gave our readers this advice:

“Dear Noisemakers, Every one of us makes a difference every day. So if you have a dream, and you work hard, you can achieve it. You have a choice to use your life to make the world a better place—or not to bother. It’s up to you to decide what kind of difference you’re going to make.” —Jane Goodall

That interview w Jan Goodall ran in our 2nd issue, 9 yrs ago!, and we’ve been working hard to make a difference w every new issue of Kazoo. Thank you, Jane, for the difference you made, and rest in peace.

(Jane Goodall maze & illustrations by Annika de Korte, from no 2, the Nature Issue.)

09/29/2025

Legendary costume designer & two-time Oscar winner Ruth E. Carter dropped by to give us some advice on helping to make the world a brighter place:

“Wear your wonder like a crown,
In braided hair or a satin gown.
Your costume tells the tale you write,
In every shade, in every light.
Twirl in boots or glitter shoes,
You’re the designer—you get to choose.
With every step, your truth takes flight—
Go Be Bright!
The world needs your voice, your spark, your light.”
—Ruth E. Carter

(Art & lettering by )

Every issue of Kazoo magazine contains an interactive maze featuring an extraordinary woman. Readers get to learn about her life and work as they follow along the path to solve the maze. We are so grateful for Ruth E. Carter’s participation and love her words of advice in latest issue, no 38, the Razzle-Dazzle Issue. To get this issue, subscribe to Kazoo or check your local bookshop.

09/26/2025

ATTENTION 📣 Some advice for you from , , and on being brave, courageous, and making noise! To all you powerful women, raising powerful people: Now is not the time to be quiet. 🎉🎉🎉



(From the A-to-Z Guide to Ruling the World in no 31, The Girl Power issue, available in our shop.)