Category:Infant's Magazine

Title: Infant’s Magazine

Editor: W.C. Wilson

Publisher: Props Seeley & Co then S.W. Partridge

Infant’s Magazine was a journal of young children’s literature. It was in print from 1866 to 1931, beginning as a companion to another popular children’s publication of the time, The Children’s Friend. As the title indicates, Infant’s Magazine was directed toward very young children. It was described in The Artizan's Year Book and Engineers' & Building Trades' Almanackas as “full of pictures and large type, for mothers to teach their infants.” ^[1] It is made up of about fifty percent images and fifty percent text, an important ratio for a journal produced to captivate very young children, most of whom cannot read. Early issues contain simple black and white images, while later issues include bright, vibrantly colored images and even a few photographs. Poems and nursery rhymes make up much of the written content, along with short stories. The text is printed very largely, again appealing to its young audience. Like the stories in its companion journal, The Children’s Friend, most stories, nursery rhymes, and poems within Infant’s Magazine seem to incorporate a simple, uplifting moral to instruct children in a fun and understandable way. Much of the written content in the journal also follows a fun, simple rhyme scheme, making the words memorable and playful for children.

Notes

1. ↑ WD.

Submitted by: Jordan Lee Roberts, section 1, Winter 2013