The School Magazine turns 100 and becomes the longest continually published children's literary publication in the world

By Alexandra Smith
Updated March 19 2015 - 10:23am, first published February 17 2015 - 11:45pm
<i>The School Magazine</i> has just produced its 100th edition and is the oldest magazine in Australia and the oldest of its type in the world.  Photo: Nick Moir
<i>The School Magazine</i> has just produced its 100th edition and is the oldest magazine in Australia and the oldest of its type in the world. Photo: Nick Moir
Marie-Antoinette Montuoro, 11, gets a 100th sticker on her nose as part of the School Magazine centennial celebrations at Haberfield Public School.
 Photo: Nick Moir
Marie-Antoinette Montuoro, 11, gets a 100th sticker on her nose as part of the School Magazine centennial celebrations at Haberfield Public School. Photo: Nick Moir
Students at Haberfield Public celebrated the magazine's 100th birthday. Photo: Nick Moir
Students at Haberfield Public celebrated the magazine's 100th birthday. Photo: Nick Moir

The first edition, back in February 1916, promised boys and girls tales of "birds and beasts and fairies and their wonderful doings." There would be stories from the "mother country" and a guarantee children would learn what "brave men did and wise men thought thousands of years ago."

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