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Corporate Spotlight - Highlights for Children, Fun with a Purpose

Kent Johnson, CEO, describes how this magazine has managed to evolve over the past 60 years without losing sight of its purpose

American Executive, June 2007 issue, Beverly, Massachusetts -
Whether it was finding the Hidden Pictures® while waiting at the dentist's office or reading short stories underneath the covers with a flashlight, Highlights for Children has been a part of every American's childhood - from the baby boomers to generation Y. More...

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HIGHLIGHTS FOR CHILDREN CELEBRATES EARLY CHILDHOOD WITH NEW MAGAZINE FOR PRESCHOOLERS

Highlights High Five Offers "Fun with a Purpose" to Pre-Readers

COLUMBUS, OH, October 30, 2006 – Highlights for Children, Inc., publishers of the nation's leading children's magazine, announces the launch of a new magazine, Highlights High Five, a general-interest magazine for children ages two to six years old. The new magazine will premiere in January 2007, with subscribers receiving the inaugural issue in homes in December 2006. More...

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A LOOK INSIDE HIGHLIGHTS HIGH FIVE™

Monthly Magazine from Highlights for Children Celebrates Early Childhood for Children Ages Two to Six Years Old

HONESDALE, PA, October 30, 2006 – Highlights High Five™ focuses on the joy of early childhood and the many "Fun with a Purpose" moments to be shared between young children and a parent, older sibling, or caregiver. Like its older sibling, Highlights magazine, Highlights High Five helps young children become curious, creative, caring, and confident individuals who love to read and learn. More...

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ABOUT HIGHLIGHTS HIGH FIVE™

Questions and Answers with Editor Christine French Clark

Q: Highlights for Children has always served a broad age of children, and served them well. What prompted Highlights to create a magazine specifically for younger children?

A: For 60 years, pre-readers have enjoyed Highlights magazine alongside older siblings or parents who read the magazine aloud to them and helped them noodle things out. This has worked wonderfully for millions of families. But we observed... More...

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NEW MAGAZINE GIVES PRESCHOOLERS A HEALTHY START ON LEARNING

HONESDALE, PA, October 30, 2006 – "Goosey-Gog and Ducketty-Duck went for a walk and got stucketty-stuck." That sentence may sound silly to you, but read it to your preschoolers and it will be music to their ears.

According to Reach Out and Read, a national non-profit that promotes early literacy, exposure to books and reading in the first years of life increases the probability of healthy child development and decreases the chance of school failure. More...

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Remarks by Postmaster General John E. Potter, CEO, United States Postal Service, at the Historic Achievement and History-Making Partnership with Highlights for Children Smithsonian's National Postal Museum

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 23, 2006 - "We're here today to celebrate a historic achievement and a history-making partnership.

By any standard, Highlights for Children is an incredible magazine.

For six decades, it has been welcomed into American homes, where it has entertained and educated our children while earning the respect and trust of their parents." More...

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Remarks by Kent S. Johnson, Chief Executive Officer, Highlights for Children, at the Presentation of Historic Copies of Highlights Magazine to the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 23, 2006 - "All of us in the Highlights for Children family are excited to be here today to celebrate two wonderful milestones with our partners in the United States Postal Service. This summer has marked two tremendous events in the history of Highlights for Children.

We are celebrating our 60th anniversary, and recently we commemorated both printing and delivery of the one-billionth copy of Highlights magazine. We certainly have come a long way since 1946, when two lifelong educators poured their life's experience into creating Highlights. They started Highlights based on the belief that 'children are the world's most important people,' and they created a magazine entirely dedicated to 'helping children become their best selves.'" More...

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How Highlights Magazine Has Endured for 60 Years

Remarks by Christine French Clark, Editor of Highlights Magazine, at the Presentation of Historic Copies of Highlights Magazine to the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 23, 2006 - "What a pleasure it is for us to be here today—in this beautiful Smithsonian National Postal Museum, which is truly one of our country's treasures. Let me add my voice to the others welcoming you and thanking you for joining us today.

We've been celebrating our 60th anniversary and the one-billionth copy of Highlights throughout this summer. At celebrations and in media interviews, I've been asked again and again: How is it that Highlights has endured for sixty years? How has it retained its popularity, printing and distributing one billion copies?'" More...

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U.S. Postal Service delivers a history of Highlights to the National Postal Museum

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 23, 2006 - For six decades, the U.S. Postal Service and Highlights for Children, Inc. have delighted young readers in America by delivering 1 billion copies of Highlights for Children magazine to help children become their best selves. More...

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The U.S. Postal Service and Highlights for Children, Inc., will celebrate the printing of 1 billion copies of Highlights for Children magazine, which made its debut in June 1946

Copies of Highlights magazine to join the National Postal Museum collection on August 23, 2006 during a special event hosted by the Museum and the Postmaster General of the United States.

WHAT: The U.S. Postal Service and Highlights for Children, Inc., will celebrate the printing of 1 billion copies of Highlights for Children magazine, which made its debut in June 1946. More...

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AT HIGHLIGHTS FOR CHILDREN, “FUN WITH A PURPOSE” GOES INTO EVERY PRODUCT DEVELOPED

Highlights Magazine, Highlights High Five, Highlights Book Clubs, Highlights Catalog and Web Sites

Highlights for Children believes that children are the world's most important people and that each child deserves the opportunity to become a confident, caring, curious, and creative individual. Every product offered by Highlights for Children reflects the company's commitment to its creed: To help children grow in basic skills and knowledge, in creativeness, in ability to think and reason, in sensitivity to others, and in high ideals and worthy ways of living. More...

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ONE-BILLIONTH COPY OF HIGHLIGHTS MAGAZINE DELIVERED TO YOUNG DALLAS SUBSCRIBER BY HIGHLIGHTS FOR CHILDREN AND THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE

Birthday Party Celebrating 60th Anniversary of Highlights Magazine; Includes Subscribing Children from Dallas

COLUMBUS, OH, AUGUST 1, 2006 — Highlights for Children and the United States Postal Service delivered the one-billionth copy of Highlights magazine to a young subscriber in Dallas, Texas on Tuesday, August 1, 2006. More...

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HIGHLIGHTS FOR CHILDREN AND THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE TO DELIVER THE ONE-BILLIONTH COPY OF HIGHLIGHTS MAGAZINE TO A DALLAS SUBSCRIBER

Birthday Party Celebrating 60th Anniversary of Highlights Magazine; Includes Subscribing Children from Dallas

DALLAS, TX, AUGUST 1, 2006 – Highlights for Children, publisher of the nation’s largest circulation children's magazine that has provided children with "Fun with a Purpose" for decades, and the United States Postal Service will present the one-billionth copy of Highlights magazine to a subscriber in Dallas, Texas, on Tuesday, August 1 at 11 AM. More...

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HIGHLIGHTS FOR CHILDREN MARKS PRINTING OF THE ONE-BILLIONTH COPY

Helping Children Grow in Character and Ability for 60 Years

COLUMBUS, OH, May 19, 2006 - This summer marks two milestones for the company that brought generations of children and their families "Hidden Pictures" and "Goofus and Gallant" through the pages of Highlights magazine. Highlights for Children celebrates the printing of the one-billionth copy of the magazine and its 60th anniversary in June. More...

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Remarks by Kent S. Johnson, Chief Executive Officer of Highlights for Children

Printing of the One-Billionth Copy of Highlights at Quebecor World's Plant
Clarksville, Tenn., June 14, 2006

Thank you, Ed (Sheehan, SVP, Sales, Quebecor World, Inc.), and thank you, Wes (Lucas, President & CEO, Quebecor World, Inc.).

All of us in the extended Highlights family are excited to be here today to celebrate two wonderful milestones. We are celebrating our 60th anniversary, and today we print the one-billionth copy of Highlights® magazine. We certainly have come a long way since 1946, when two lifelong educators had a dream of creating a magazine entirely dedicated to helping children become their best selves. More...

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Remarks by Christine French Clark, Editor of Highlights Magazine

Printing of the One-Billionth Copy of Highlights at Quebecor World's Plant
Clarksville, Tenn., June 14, 2006

What a thrill it is to see Highlights for Children achieve these remarkable milestones-our 60th anniversary and the printing of our one-billionth copy.

Many times in the days leading up to this event, I've been asked, "How is it possible that a 60-year-old magazine not only endures but remains as popular with children as ever, growing to become America's most widely circulated children's magazine?" More...

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Welcome Comments by Wes Lucas, President & CEO of Quebecor World

Printing of the One-Billionth Copy of Highlights at Quebecor World's Plant
Clarksville, Tenn., June 14, 2006

Thank you, Ed, and thank you all for being here today.

It is a great pleasure to be able to speak here today on behalf of Quebecor World's employees on the occasion of the billionth copy of Highlights for Children. It is tremendously rewarding to print a magazine that has touched the lives of so many children through so many generations. It has been our privilege to print most of the billion copies of Highlights®. More...

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SPECIAL TWO-PAGE "HIDDEN PICTURES" APPEARS IN AUGUST 2006 ISSUE OF HIGHLIGHTS MAGAZINE

Favorite Highlights Characters Celebrate 60 Years of Fun with a Purpose

COLUMBUS, OH, June 9, 2006 - The August 2006 issue of Highlights magazine includes a special celebratory "Hidden Pictures" puzzle. "Hidden Pictures," one of the most popular features found in Highlights, first appeared in the inaugural issue of Highlights in June 1946 and has been included in every issue since. This is the first time a two-page "Hidden Pictures" has appeared in the magazine. More...

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HIGHLIGHTS FOR CHILDREN, INC. COMPANY FACT SHEET

Background information on Highlights for Children including purpose, products, affiliations, and locations

Highlights for Children celebrates the printing of the one-billionth copy of Highlights magazine in June 2006, and the company's 60th anniversary of providing children with products that underscore the company's basic philosophy: Highlights for Children is dedicated to helping children grow in basic skills and knowledge, in creativeness, in ability to think and reason, in sensitivity to others, in high ideals and worthy ways of living - for children are the world's most important people. More...

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HIGHLIGHTS FOR CHILDREN, INC. SPOKESPEOPLE BIOGRAPHIES

Background information about our spokespeople

KENT S. JOHNSON - Chief Executive Officer, Highlights for Children, Inc.

CHRISTINE FRENCH CLARK - Editor, Highlights magazine

KENT L. BROWN, JR. - Executive Director, Highlights Foundation, Inc.; Former editor, Highlights for Children; Publisher, Boyds Mills Press, Inc.

PATRICIA M. MIKELSON - Family Historian and Highlights Company Archivist

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HIGHLIGHTS FOR CHILDREN, INC. FOUNDERS BIOGRAPHY

Garry and Caroline Myers,
Founders of Highlights for Children

Garry Cleveland Myers and Caroline Clark Myers had full careers as teachers behind them when, in their “retirement," they started Highlights for Children in Honesdale, Pa., in 1946.

The Myers were experts on children and in the teaching of writing and reading. For 41 years, as a nationally recognized leader in child-development studies, Dr. Myers wrote a popular syndicated newspaper column for parents, “Parent Problems." He and Mrs. Myers wrote several books together and cooperated closely in all their professional work. More...

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A PARENT'S PRAYER

Oh, God, make me a better parent.

Help me to understand my children, to listen patiently to what they have to say and to answer all their questions kindly. Keep me from interrupting them, talking back to them and contradicting them. Make me as courteous to them as I would have them be to me. Give me the courage to confess my sins against my children and to ask of them forgiveness, when I know that I have done them wrong. More...

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