The Children's Newspaper (Mały Przegląd)

Korczak edited two children's newspapers. The first was the internal Dom Sierot publication, in which orphans wrote articles about life at the institution. The second, Mały Przegląd (The Little Review), founded in 1926, was a weekly national newspaper in which children across Poland submitted articles, editorials, and correspondence on their own lives and the world beyond them. Korczak edited with a deliberately light hand. The articles were uneven, as writing by children tends to be. Some were perceptive; some were trivial; some were complaints about food. Korczak did not edit for quality because the newspaper's purpose was not to produce good journalism. Its purpose was to give children the experience of having a voice that reached beyond the immediate conversation — a voice that persisted in text, could be read and responded to, carried the weight of publication.