Fact Sheets & Bios
HIGHLIGHTS MAGAZINE FACT SHEET
Mission
To help 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.
HIGHLIGHTS HIGH FIVE MAGAZINE FACT SHEET
Mission
Celebrate the early years of childhood by helping parents, educators and other caregivers encourage a child's natural sense of wonder about the world - for children are the world's most important people.
HIGHLIGHTS FOR CHILDREN, INC. SPOKESPEOPLE BIOGRAPHIES
Background information about our spokespeople
KENT S. JOHNSON—Chief Executive Officer, Highlights for Children, Inc.
CHRISTINE FRENCH CULLY—Editor in Chief, Highlights for Children, Inc.
KENT L. BROWN, JR.—Executive Director, Highlights Foundation, Inc.
Editor in Chief, Emeritus, Highlights for Children
Publisher, Boyds Mills Press, Inc.
KATHLEEN HAYES—Editor, Highlights High Five
A GUIDING VISION:
HIGHLIGHTS FOUNDERS GARRY CLEVELAND MYERS, Ph.D.,
CAROLINE CLARK MYERS AND THE PHILOSOPHY
OF HIGHLIGHTS FOR CHILDREN
Garry and Caroline Myers,
Founders of Highlights for Children
Both Garry Cleveland Myers and Caroline Cully grew up in Pennsylvania farming families in the early 1900s, then met while attending college — a fitting place for a pair whose love of learning would be the foundation of the company they created together, Highlights For Children, Inc. Caroline taught school while Garry pursued his Ph.D. in child psychology at Columbia University. They married and from that time on, they were partners in everything they did — as parents, as educators and ultimately as creators of their dream, a children's magazine that helped kids have "Fun with a Purpose."
HIGHLIGHTS FOR CHILDREN, INC. COMPANY FACT SHEET
Company Philosophy:
Founded in 1946, Highlights for Children, Inc. is dedicated to the belief that children are the world's most important people. Every Highlights for Children, Inc. product helps children become their best selves and become confident, caring, curious and creative individuals.
HIGHLIGHTS FOR CHILDREN, INC. PRODUCTS FACT SHEET
Magazines
Book Clubs, Hidden Pictures Game, Books and CD-ROM, Highlights Catalog and Websites
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.
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.
ABOUT HIGHLIGHTS HIGH FIVE™
Questions and Answers with Editor Christine French Cully
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...