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Contact: Patricia M. Mikelson
Highlights Corporate Communications
pmmikelson@highlights-corp.com or 614-324-7003
Fact Sheet
MAGAZINES
| Highlights Magazine |
- Guiding principle is "Fun with a Purpose"
- First issue printed in June 1946
- More than one billion magazines printed
- 2 million monthly readers, ages 6 to 12
- Includes "Hidden Pictures," "Goofus and Gallant," "Ask Arizona," stories, science, crafts, jokes and riddles, puzzles
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| Highlights High Five Magazine |
- Guiding principle is "Celebrating Early Childhood"
- Designed for the youngest readers, ages 2 to 6
- " First issue printed in January 2007
- Includes age-appropriate versions of favorite Highlights magazine features as well as original read-aloud text, illustrations, crafts and other activities
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ADDITIONAL PRODUCTS
Book Clubs (Puzzle books regularly delivered to the home)
| Hidden Pictures Playground |
- For children ages 4 and up
- Offers age-appropriate Hidden Pictures puzzles, beginner word play, games and more
- Develops concentration, reading fundamentals and a sense of achievement
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| Puzzle Buzz |
- For children ages 4 and up
- Offers colorful, age-appropriate sets of puzzles, mazes, matching games and brain teasers
- Introduces younger children to puzzle-solving skills, creates confidence
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| Puzzlemania |
- For children ages 6 and up
- Offers mazes, brainteasers, word and memory games, Hidden Pictures and secret codes
- Exercises children's reading, manual dexterity, creativity, logic and sequencing skills
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| Mathmania |
- For children ages 7 and up
- Offers cryptograms, codes, math magic and math mazes
- Develops children's mathematics and logic skills
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| Which Way USA |
- For children ages 7 and up
- Offers state maps that accompany text about a team of explorers' adventures
- Excites children about geography and history while broadening their reading and problem-solving skills
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| Top Secret Adventures |
- For children ages 8 and up
- Offers Adventure Kits that include a mystery involving one of 27 different countries accompanied by a jigsaw puzzle, country guide book, mystery puzzle book, and other materials
- Expands children's knowledge of other cultures and stimulates curiosity about the world
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Hidden Pictures Game, Books and CD-ROM
- Hidden Pictures Game is a board game with cards, timer, different levels of play
- CD-ROM contains 40 interactive animated puzzles and puzzle creation software
- A variety of Hidden Pictures books, with different degrees of difficulty
Highlights Merchandise
- A selection of wholesome, high-quality toys, games, puzzles and craft activities that have passed Highlights' standard of excellence for safety
- Develops essential skills in thinking, knowledge, logic, sensitivity and creativity
- Online at Highlights.com
Websites
| HighlightsKids.com |
- For children ages 4 and up
- Interactive content related to each issue of Highlights magazine
- Activities such as "Click-and-Play Hidden Pictures," printable Hidden Pictures e-cards, games, craft activities, codes, jokes and riddles
- Archive of stories, articles, recipes and crafts
- Content continually changes
- Site is a participant in the Kids Privacy Safe Harbor program of the Children's Advertising Review Unit (CARU) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus
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| HighlightsParents.com |
- Articles, suggested activities, polls and information for parents
- Complimentary monthly parent/teacher guide to Highlights High Five and Highlights magazine
- " Features "On Parenting with Dr. Schwager," written by Istar Schwager, Ph.D., a noted educational psychologist
- Offers monthly electronic newsletter for parents
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Highlights for Children, Public Relations Office, 614-487-2640
