• Boston Globe, Thursday, June 15, 2006 11 AM

Highlights is turning 60 the same month that the venerable children's magazine will print its one billionth copy, the Boston Globe reports--and the magazine has decided to turn the milestone into a teachable moment. "If Goofus stacked a billion children on his shoulders, they would reach the moon, wrap around the moon 11 times, stretch back to the earth, wrap around the earth five times, and there would be enough kids left over for 34,944 Little League teams," Editor Christine French Clark says--and that's how the magazine will explain the big number. But for CEO Kent Johnson, "when you think of a billion copies of a magazine, that's not very inspiring. What's inspiring is when you think that a billion times a child went to their mailbox, opened it up, and had that excitement of finding a magazine with their name on it, and of jumping in and beginning their experience with literacy."

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