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Five different mini zines of various colors lined up in a row. Our Childish Books manifesto printed in an ombre of pink, red, and golden yellow. The print reads "be childish, center play, read art, take naps, make noises, east snacks, repeat" alongside each phrase is a little icon illustrating the point. These emoji like images include a pencil, rain cloud, heart, and scissors. The cover of the zine, risograph printed on gray paper with a clear coil binding. A goldenrod yellow title is fashioned across the center in the “Goodnight Moon” font. In the background, printed in cornflower blue, is a bedroom scene including a doll in a plush armchair, a framed image of author Djuana Barnes, a clock, rug, door in the wall, and a window with a striped curtain looking out onto a starry night sky and a large full moon. The cover of a small landscape zine printed in purple riso on orchid paper. The title is hand written and emphasized by doodles of squiggles and hearts. Cover of the Zine. The title is handwritten and backwards printed in blue riso. The artist’s name sits at the bottom of the page handwritten forwards, printed in red riso. The cover of a green zine on a white background. Risograph printed in a darker green ink is the title in a unique bubble font with tiny horses running along the bottom of each letter. Three full body illustrations of horses wrap across the lower portion of the zine looking as if they are toys all lined up. The subtitle is in a thinner sans serif font in the bottom right corner. An illustrated ‘blob’ character with simple rounded appendages, two dot eyes and a small line for a smile, sits on the ground with one ‘leg’ through the whole in the back of a school chair. The image and hand written title are all risograph printed in green ink on cream paper. The cover of a vertically bound book with a bright golden yellow coil spiral. On white paper the title is Risograph printed in Purple, and a dit cut cover creates a readymade viewfinder to reveal a rectangle of the title page below. In the window to the title page we can make out elements of block letters including a "W L O" in the center, with purple shading in the background The cover of the zine, printed in green risography on light purple paper, with the title in a large outlined font down the center. Right above the words “(for kids)” is a line drawings of an opened pair of scissors.