Today, Highlights for Children is committed to the same values that guided the Myerses' work. Their belief that children experience fun and joy when they use their innate creativity, curiosity, thinking ability, and imagination, as well as the Founders' commitment to the motto "Fun with a Purpose®" can still be found on every page of Highlights magazine, and in an expanding family of products.
Working in a two-room office over a car dealership in Honesdale, Pennsylvania with a tiny band of co-workers, the Myerses created the first issue of the magazine they had long imagined. Printed in June1946, that first issue ran to 20,000 copies. Sixty years later, in June 2006, the one-billionth copy of the magazine rolled off the presses just in time for the company's 60th anniversary.
Find Out MoreThe first Timbertoes characters appeared in Highlights in February 1951 in a story called "Mr. Timbertoe."
From the Highlights and High Five magazine publishers to trade-book and textbook publishers to providers of educational seminars for teachers, all members of the Highlights family of companies make a significant contribution to the education of children.
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