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Dear Reader By Christine French Cully

Editor in Chief
APRIL 2020 • VOLUME 75 • NUMBER 4 • ISSUE NO. 822
Founded in 1946 by Garry C. Myers, Ph.D.,
and Caroline Clark Myers

Editor in Chief: Christine French Cully
VP, Magazine Group Editorial: Jamie Bryant Go Ahead—
Creative Director: Marie O’Neill
Editor: Judy Burke
Design Director: Patrick Greenish, Jr.
Senior Editor: Joëlle Dujardin
Associate Editors: Allison Kane, Linda K. Rose Laugh!
Assistant Editor: Patty Courtright
Copy Editor: Joan Prevete Hyman
Senior Production Artist: Dave Justice
Production Assistant: Susan Shadle Erb
Contributing Science Editor: Andrew Boyles Have you ever laughed so much
Editorial Offices: 803 Church Street, Honesdale, PA 18431-1895.
E-mail: eds@highlights.com. that your face hurt from smiling?
To submit manuscripts, go to Highlights.submittable.com. I have. Have your sides ever ached
(Writers younger than 16: please use the postal address above.)
after a long, hard belly laugh? It has
CEO: Kent S. Johnson
SVP, International and Global Content Licensing: Andy Shafran happened to me, and it felt great.
Business Offices: 1800 Watermark Drive,
P.O. Box 269, Columbus, OH 43216-0269. As you’ll read in “What’s Behind Our
Copyright © 2020, Highlights for Children, Inc. Ha-Ha-Ha’s” (pages 36–37), laughing is
All rights reserved.
HIGHLIGHTS FOR CHILDREN is published monthly. good for both our body and our mind.
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That’s why people sometimes say that
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Printed by LSC Communications, Glasgow, KY. laughter is “good medicine.”
Designed for home and classroom use. This article started me thinking
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Toronto, Ontario; and at additional mailing offices. about some of the things that make
U.S. Postmaster: Send address changes to Highlights for Children,
P.O. Box 6038, Harlan, IA 51593-1538. Canada Post: Publications me laugh—a good corny joke or an
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addresses to P.O. Box 99 Stn. Main, Milton, ON L9T 9Z9. animal doing something funny. And if I
Sometimes we make our list of customer names and addresses watch videos of babies laughing, soon I’m holding my aching
available to carefully screened companies whose products and
services might be of interest to you. We never provide children’s sides. Baby laughter is so contagious!
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What things make you laugh out loud? We may not always
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As part of our mission to help make the world
a better place for the children of today and
tomorrow, Highlights is committed to PARENTS:
making responsible business decisions If your child is
that will protect our natural resources not quite ready
and reduce our environmental impact. for Highlights, call PS: I’m always looking for a new
AWARDS Highlights has been to switch to favorite joke. Do you know a Write to me!
given awards by The Association High Five at
of Educational Publishers, The any time. good one? I’m ready to hear it— Christine@Highlights.com
Education Center, LLC, Family Choice
Awards, Freedoms Foundation, Graphic Arts and ready to laugh out loud.
Association, iParenting Media, Magazine Design and Production,
National Association for Gifted Children, National Conference of
Christians and Jews, National Parenting Center, National Safety
Council, Parents’ Choice, Parent’s Guide to Children’s Media
Awards, and Printing Industry Association. HighlightsKids.com
is a participant in the Kids Privacy Safe Harbor program of the This magazine of wholesome fun
Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) of the Council of Better
Business Bureaus. 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

HL0420_182736 children are the world’s most important people.