The Mini Page is a
syndicated
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newspaper supplement for children, created by Betty Debnam in 1969 and authored by her and two other writers.
History
The Mini Page began in August 1969 and appears weekly in hundreds of newspapers in the United States as an offering of
Andrews McMeel Syndication.
Its regular features include short articles, puzzles, jokes, and recipes. Andrews McMeel has also published several Mini Page spinoff books covering subjects such as the U.S. military, science, the states, history, geography and the environment.
The supplement was conceived as a cross between the ''
Weekly Reader'' and a newspaper
comics section, with an underlying mission of encouraging family-centered reading and
literacy
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.
It was the first supplement of its kind when it debuted in August 1969 in the
Raleigh, North Carolina
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News & Observer
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''.
The Mini Page's first issue had a "Back to School" theme and included a mini-profile of
Los Angeles Rams
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quarterback
Roman Gabriel and a "Faces in the News" section asking readers to identify a picture of
Spiro Agnew.
When Debnam created the Mini Page, she had been an