Generations of children around the world have enjoyed the authentic voices in High Five and Highlights magazines that help reinforce English verbal skills. Stories feature recurring characters that respect children and help them navigate their daily lives. Children know and love their favorite characters from Highlights stories and can often see their own situations being told through the characters.

Highlights Founders, Garry Cleveland Myers, Ph.D., and Caroline Clark Myers, wrote the mission statement that appears in every issue of Highlights:

This magazine of wholesome fun is dedicated to helping 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.