Dear Highlights: What Adults Can Learn from 75 Years of Letters and Conversations with Kids

Christine French Cully

aug. 2021 · Penguin Random House Audio · Berättare: Christine French Cully, Amy Dickinson, Jamie K. Brown, Carla Corvo, Shaan Dasani, Em Grosland, Greta Jung, Yuuki Luna, Cassandra Morris, Angel Pean, Julie Shields, Allison Strong och Hemi Yeroham

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A unique, inside look at American childhood through the conversations between Highlights magazine and its young readers and a call to grown-ups to make time to actively listen to the children in their lives.

Every year, tens of thousands of children write to Highlights magazine, sharing their hopes and dreams, worries and concerns, as if they were writing to a trusted friend. From the beginning, the editors at Highlights have answered every child individually. Longtime editor in chief Christine French Cully has curated a collection of this remarkable correspondence (letters, emails, and poems) in Dear Highlights--revealing an intimate and inspiring 75-year conversation between America’s children and its leading children’s magazine. From the timeless, everyday concerns of friendship, family, and school, to the deeper issues of identity, sexuality, divorce, and grief, here is a unique time capsule of American childhood in the voices--and the very handwriting--of children themselves. The audiobook captures a child's-eye view of some of the most important events of the past 75 years: the COVID-19 pandemic, 9/11, the Challenger Disaster, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Cully’s insightful narrative becomes a call to action for adults to lean in and listen to children, to make sure our kids know that they matter and what they think matters, and to assure them that they have the power to become people who change the world.

By turns funny, heartbreaking, moving, and enlightening, Dear Highlights will cause listeners to reflect, to listen, and to embrace the children in their lives.

Om författaren

Christine French Cully is editor in chief and chief purpose officer atHighlights and an outspoken and trusted voice on issues that impact childrenand their well-being. She has been dedicated to helping raise curious, creative,caring, and confident children, and promoting Highlights’ belief that childrenare the most important people on earth. A frequent speaker at writers’ andeducators’ conferences and the host of the Dear Highlights podcast, Cully issought after for guidance on how to talk to kids about challenging topics. Cullyhas been providing thoughtful advice not only to parents and families but tokids directly, personally answering thousands of their letters received atHighlights over decades. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.