ZOOM December 2002
The House of the Child, Journal
January 1, 1957, year 8th, no 169

The journal The House of the Child circulated every 15 days in Athens from 1950 until 1969. In its first or second page we usually find a short notice for its subscribers:

Subscriptions: for the children of the province 30 drs every year and 20 drs every six months, for the children of the cities 40 drs every year and 25 drs every six months, for anyone else 50 drs every year.

The specific journal is educational, informative and recreational for the young people in Greece a few years after the war. Its content includes narratives of famous or new writers, theatrical dialogues, fairytales, satiric poems and songs. Quite often its columns present topics taken from the Greek history and religion, along with famous peoples' words, like Plato's or Victor Hugo's. The House of the Child is always up to date, with current news from Greece and all over the world, while it also presents athletic news. Its readers frequently publish texts and sketches and they communicate through its column "Ask me and I answer", where the issues are usually of encyclopaedic interest. Although its pages are black-and-white and kind of austere, the journal's cover page usually is coloured, while the back cover depicts an illustrated coloured fairytale.