OWL (magazine)

OWL Magazine is a popular Canadian children's magazine founded in 1976 by Young Naturalist Foundation members Annabel Slaight and Mary-Anne Brinkmann. It was designed to make children ages 8–12 “think beyond the printed page”.[1][2]

Not to be confused with The Owl (magazine).
OWL
Frequency10/year
Total circulation
(2017)		47,350
Founded1976 (1976)
CompanyBayard Canada
CountryCanada
Based inToronto, Ontario
LanguageEnglish
Websitewww.owlkids.com/owl
ISSN0382-6627

Originally a science and nature magazine – OWL stands for “Outdoors and Wild Life”[3] – in recent years, like sister publication Chickadee, the magazine has come to encompass a larger variety of topics.

Regular features include weird news from around the world, how-to articles, science stories, a reader-driven advice column, and comics The Spruce Street Squad and Max Finder Mystery. Memorable past features include Dr. Zed (written by Canadian scientist Gordon Penrose and is being continued in Chickadee) and comic strip The Mighty Mites, which left in 2002.

Related OWL media has included books and videos, produced by former owner OWL Communications. In 1997, OWL (as well as sister publications Chickadee and Chirp) was purchased by Bayard Canada,[4] which also owns a number of French-language children’s magazines, including Les Débrouillards and Les Explorateurs.

OWL/TV

OWL/TV was a half-hour television show that aired from 1985 to 1994 and was based on the magazine. Like the magazine, it focused on science and nature. It aired on CBC, and then later on CTV.

References
  1. "Owlkids: Then and Now". owlkids.com.
  2. Eugene Benson; L.W. Conolly (November 30, 2004). Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. Routledge. p. 897. ISBN 978-1-134-46848-5. Retrieved October 31, 2015.
  3. Christopher Shulgan (June 27, 2011). "OWL Magazine Turns 35". ParentCentral.
  4. Susan Krashinsky (June 29, 2011). "OWL Survives in a Challenged Magazine World". The Globe and Mail.
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