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The Paper Planes Journal Issue 5: a fully illustrated international magazine for middle graders—fiction, art, criticism & translated world literature.
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| Publisher | The Antonym Collections |
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The Paper Planes Journal Issue 5 is a fully illustrated international magazine for curious, creative middle graders. This monsoon issue steps through the magical portals of Studio Ghibli, dives beneath the sea with the kelp forests of the Sea Change Project, and remembers Hiroshima through the tender story of Tomiko and Akiko and Sadako’s paper cranes. Explore the great monsoon migration of Kaziranga, the East Kolkata Wetlands, and the science of how plants can sing, alongside book, film, music, and game criticism—from The Hobbit to Project Hail Mary to Kena: Bridge of Spirits. Every issue also features short literary works translated from languages around the world—Bengali, Assamese, Hindi, Russian—connecting global voices to young readers and centring them as makers and critics of their culture.
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The Paper Planes Journal – Year 1, Issue 5 [Aug-Sep 2026]
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Exciting! That was my response on receiving my first copy of The Paper Planes Journal, a bimonthly children’s and young adults’ literary magazine published by The Antonym Collections.
The August issue commemorates Hiroshima Day, with a cautionary line that ‘peace cannot be taken for granted. It is something we must work for and protect’ (3). In the PostScript the issue is dedicated to Ghibli fans. The issue includes some fine readable pieces in original and in translation. ‘The Contents’ indicate the lovely spread that include mood pieces, struggles with life, movies, puzzles, fun and games. There are reviews to catch of Michael and Hail Mary , a translation of Anindya Chattopadhyay’s Hiroshima, Mon Amour and some questions for ‘Finding Meaning’ in Charvak Dipta’s ‘Chaotic Art’.
But what must thrill all is the wonderful production – good paper, with a strong bookish smell, lovely and lively illustration, which are sure to appeal to a generation whose staple is the visual.The aesthetic is especially winsome in soft tones balancing a world of words and that of images.
For one brought up on Anandamela, Reader’s Digest and the likes, Paper Planes nudges one into reminiscence. It has all the delights of the older journals and enough to keep the young involved in things that they might like and do best. The call for submission is a wide and happy invitation for all ‘secret superstars’ to fly their little planes.
The August issue is particularly close to my heart as it ran Gunjarie’s musings about her feline family as ‘Catty Affairs’. It was merely a musing that she shared with me and she had no idea that it was sent for publication. So it was with great surprise and wonder that she held her first publication.
I wish the one year old Paper Planes and its wonderful pilots and crew a long, long sojourn through wondrous terrains and spaces