The print journal will attain multiple million of Highlights’ subscribers, and we’re offering 250,000 copies to varsities and organizations that serve lower-income communities, together with Save the Youngsters, Boys and Ladies Membership of America and Studying is Elementary. Plus, youngsters can entry a free digital model of the journal and supplementary supplies on-line.
To be taught extra about what it was prefer to create this particular difficulty, we not too long ago sat down with Highlights editors Joelle Dujardin and Marlo Scrimizzi.
When youngsters open a difficulty of Highlights, what can they anticipate finding?
Marlo: They’ll discover puzzles, fiction and nonfiction tales, and actions, like a craft and a recipe. “Hidden Photos” has been printed within the journal since its inception, and we embody a lot of different kinds of puzzles to inspire youngsters to be taught whereas fixing issues. We even have a number of recurring characters, like Goofus and Gallant, who’ve been in Highlights for many years and current the mistaken and the correct strategy to behave, respectively. On this particular difficulty, we centered on Be Web Superior’s 5 pillars, which encourage youngsters to be good, alert, robust, sort and courageous.
Joelle: Children take pleasure in seeing different youngsters, so we at all times attempt to embody their voices, like in our part the place actual youngsters write to us asking for recommendation. A cool truth about Highlights is that we reply to each single letter that we get from youngsters — whether or not it will get printed within the journal or not. We even have a daily collection referred to as “Ask Arizona.” Arizona is a fictional character, and the premise is that she’s answering different youngsters’ questions by telling a narrative from her personal life. She resonates with our readers as a result of youngsters can see themselves via her tales. For instance, the Be Web Superior difficulty’s “Ask Arizona” story is about having an excessive amount of display time. Kindness can be a theme all through, together with in tales about how actual youngsters have used expertise to invent issues that assist others.
