
        <p>Emoji are those little images you can send in text messages to friends and family. Nine-year-old Leila in New Jersey wants to know how they were invented. So in this episode we find out with Jane Solomon, editor at<a href="https://emojipedia.org/"> Emojipedia</a> and Paul Galloway of the<a href="https://www.moma.org/"> Museum of Modern Art</a> in New York. We learn what the first emoji looked like, way back in the dark ages of the 1990s and we explore how emoji may be a new trend, but communicating through pictures is a very old tradition. Plus, are emoji…art? Give this episode a 👂to find out!</p><p>Download our learning guides:<a href="https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/56/d6/d3ab516445debad45b081b7e16f7/who-invented-emoji.pdf"> PDF</a> |<a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mzbi4JWT32h4rbe8G5zicl1XeGS-8B42MXDC0m77btE/copy"> Google Slide</a> |<a href="https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/23/83/50f8035a4523b87c0af35f03c14a/but-why-194-emoji.pdf"> Transcript</a></p>
      

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