About this issue
What’s Special? Go back to school with a smashing issue loaded with adventure and thrills galore! · It’s Nadia and Aadi’s first day at Nilgiri Orchid International School, or NOIS. Will Aadi’s shenanigans get in the way of Nadia winning a treasure hunt? Check out the new Tinkle Toon series NOIS: The Treasure Hunt. · Gill and Fin bunk school to visit some coral reefs. But trouble seems to keep finding them wherever they go in A Day Off. · Wai Knot sneaks out of class to win a bet, but things don’t end well for him in Mascot Mania. · Shambu is charged with catching some poachers but something more dangerous lurks around the corner this International Tiger Day in Shikari Shambu: The Poachers. Also Starring: Suppandi turns out to be a little too helpful while assisting Maddy with some money problems in Pinched. Heer’s co-star in a play is nothing but trouble, and even Aisha can’t seem to help her in SuperWeirdos: Snap! And a musician uses some wily tricks to escape animals in a forest in The Strange Musician.
About TINKLE
Tinkle started as a fortnightly children’s comics magazine, in 1980. Under the guidance of editor-founder, Anant Pai, the brand evolved the tagline ‘Where learning meets fun’. It was one of the first few children’s comics magazines with Indian content at that time. Till then children were reading syndicated foreign comics, – Archies, Phantom, Mandrake – translated into Indian languages. In Tinkle, children could read folktales from all over the world as well as stories revolving around the Tinkletoons. Many of these characters have evolved into icons such as Suppandi, Shikari Shambu, Tantri the Mantri, Kalia the Crow, etc. Over the years, newer characters have stepped into the Tinkle pages. These include the Defective Detectives, Butterfingers, Sea Diaries, etc. Apart from comics, the magazine also engages readers with several educative non-fiction pages including puzzles, do-it-yourself crafts, solve-it-yourself mysteries, knowledge features on a wide range of subjects and contests. Though intended as a magazine for children between the ages of 8 and 14, Tinkle’s reach goes far beyond. Families eagerly look forward to the magazine, every month, across the length and breadth of the country. It is probably not just the entertainment but the unexpected insights that the magazine gives their children that families value. Owing to Uncle Pai’s efforts, Tinkle is also welcomed by educators and school principals and thus holds a position as a recommended magazine for wholesome edutainment.