#highlights magazine

[oh-bother-stickers]

[odetochildhood]

Childhood Magazines

[90s-2000s-barbie]

Highlights Magazines For Children

[cottuncandy]

according to the highlights almanac of fun, today is national grilled cheese day !! 🧀

[s-------i-------g]

My Dearest Goofus,

By now, you've surely heard the news of my untimely illness. The doctors do not know exactly what it is that is wrong, but their prognosis is far from optimistic.

I know you think yourself to be some sort of black sheep in the family lineage, but truth, I never saw you that way despite how often our father would remark "Be like Gallant, not like Goofus." What those fools never understood is that you had the boldness to defy their and live only for yourself. I couldn't help but be jealous.

How ironic it is, then, that the boy who followed all the rules should be rewarded with an early death! While you were out travelling the world with nary a dollar to your name, experiencing true freedom as a vagabond on the high seas, I was stuck in this decaying castle. You remember, don't you? I'm ashamed to admit I've barely stepped foot outside Highlights Manor.

It is my last wish to see you one last time, dear brother. There is much to discuss, and treachery may be a foot.

Yours, always,

Gallant

[megan-the-artoonist]

One more thing I created on vacation! I was doing some Highlights hidden picture puzzles with my little cousins. I wanted to try drawing one myself, and they greatly encouraged me to! I made a scene inspired by our family games of pool volleyball, being sure to include the kids’ favorite animals and a couple other cameos.

[stone-cold-groove]

Actual conversation overheard between two 11-year-olds.

[scottguy]

Suddenly, I'm back in my dentist's office as a child.

[gallimaufryish]

[sweatermuppet]

snippets i found particularly impactful from an article titled "The 'T' in LGT" by an anonymous trans woman going only by Karen who worked as a volunteer counselor with the Atlanta Gay Center Help Line. this article was published in a June 1980 issue of Cruise Magazine

[Text ID: Why put the transperson in gay lesbian transperson pride?

As members of sexually-defined minorities (lesbians, gays, or transpersons), we are all familiar with the effects of prejudice and ignorance on our lives and jobs. We need to unite to seek civil rights and dignity for all of us.

burden of guilt, and the trauma of coming out. My experiences as a transexual were similar with many of the most difficult passages in a gay person's life.

There have been transexuals for as long as there have been people. Accounts of people who reject the role assignment to them

Gays however, usually become fairly comfortable with their gender identity and come to feel whole in body and soul. A healthy homosexual does not seek sex reassignment surgery. Does that mean that gays and transexuals really have nothing in common?

While internally we may differ, we are united by common oppression. Solutions to the problems of one group will substantially assist the other. My work with the AGC /End ID]

[woodelf68]

Um, could you see the cover of that issue when you found it? Because I saw an issue of Highlights once that had a gorgeous cover featuring a troika at the library and shelled out a dollar to make a color copy, I loved it so much. I painted over all the writing on the cover, so I have no idea what date is was, but it would be wild if it were the same issue. The year seems possible? I've got the copy of the cover framed and I hang it on my bedroom wall every winter.

Fairy tale nerds of Tumblr I need your help.

I've been trying to find a fairy tale for AGES, this has been almost a decades long quest. I first read it in a Highlights magazine around the mid 2000s, when the theme was "Fairy Tales from around the World." Now I don't know if this is actually an older fairy tale or just one that was made up for the magazine masquerading as a story from somewhere else. I've done my own research and have come up zilch.

So, this story was about a prince that was cursed to be a wolf until he was able to bite a bride the night of her wedding. Well, it just so happens that such a woman is riding through the forest with her new beau, a very uncouth man that calls her his "little chicken." Long story short, a pack of wolves waylay their carriage, the wolf prince bites the lady, becomes human again, and they fall in love and marry.

And what happened to her original husband?

Well naturally he gets turned into a chicken and they eat him at their wedding feast.

Classic.

if anyone knows the title of this fairy tale or where it may have originated, please let me know! I'd love to see if I can read it again.

[columboscreens]

[jason-1971]

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

~ inseparable opposing images ~

[nirrvana]

in deep waters 🫧🔮

[iscreamicescream]

Should I scratch this itch 🙈😝