Świerszczyk (

Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken *Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ...

for ''little cricket'') is an illustrated Polish children's biweekly magazine published since 1945. The publisher of the magazine is Nowa Era. Many popular Polish authors of children's magazines, such as Hanna Januszewska,

Jan Brzechwa Jan Brzechwa (), (15 August 1898 – 2 July 1966) was a Polish poet, author and lawyer, known mostly for his contribution to children's literature. He was born Jan Wiktor Lesman to a Polish family of Jewish descent.

, Ewa Szelburg-Zarembina, Olga Siemaszkowa, Lucyna Krzemieniecka and

Jan Marcin Szancer Jan Marcin Szancer (12 November 1902 – 21 March 1973) was a Polish illustrator, scenographer and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Szancer was born into a Jewish family in Kraków. He studied at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, ...

wrote for the publication, and

Jeż Jerzy ''Jeż Jerzy'' (''George the Hedgehog'') is a popular Polish comic book title created by two young artists, (script) and (drawings). The comic strip first appeared as part of a children's magazine called '' Świerszczyk''. Originally, the stri ...

, a popular modern Polish comic, debuted there.

Footnotes

References

* * *Zofia Redlarska
Czytelnictwo prasy dziecięcej— literackie oblicze Świerszczyka— pisma dla dzieci
chapter in Media elektroniczne – kreujące obraz rodziny i dziecka, pod redakcją Jadwigi Izdebskiej, Białystok 2008, ss. 280–294

External links

Official homepageŚwierszczyk: Tygodnik dla dzieci 1945 edition
Digital Library of the University of Łódź 1945 establishments in Poland Biweekly magazines Magazines established in 1945 Children's magazines published in Poland Polish-language magazines {{Poland-magazine-stub