[onestepp Posts: 240 Status: Offline I love kids' books!]

Just received an e-mail that Cicada the teen magazine at the cricket group will be no more.

[Hopeful Posts: 82 Status: Offline I love kids books!]

Interesting.  I guess not enough subscribers.  Thanks for posting.

[Ev Posts: 5,026 Status: Offline Making learning fun! WWW]

It makes me sad when magazines close. Thanks for letting us know.

[Debbie Vilardi Posts: 5,992 Status: Offline Language is so cool! WWW]

This is sad. Slowly, all of the Cricket mags are disappearing. There were once twelve, as I recall.

[Sue G. Posts: 165 Status: Offline WWW]

This is so sad especially since Cicada encouraged work written by teens as well - an opportunity that I'm sure will be missed by young writers and artists and the teens who looked forward to reading each new issue.  Hoping the other Cricket mags continue for a long, long time.

[CarrieLee Posts: 95 Status: Offline Fill each day with wonder, curiosity & imagination WWW]

    Too much older teen content on the web I suppose.  I hate to see any literary mag close, esp in the kidlit world. Pity.

[DianaM Posts: 1,667 Status: Offline Writer, rhymer, runner, punner. WWW]

Wow, thanks for letting us know!

[Gbug Posts: 22 Status: Offline I love kids' books!]

DianaM---this is off topic (sorry everyone if this is against the rules), but I just saw that you wrote Ned the Knitting Pirate. I picked that up not long ago at the library to read to my daughter. We --loved-- it!!  I am a big crocheter and learning to knit, so it was such a fun topic to read about in silly verse!