Where the conversation began -- Letters about family -- Letters about school -- Letters about friendship -- Letters about feeling & confidence -- Letters about self-improvement -- Letters about hopes & dreams -- Letters about societal concerns & events -- Letters about biases & exclusion -- Letters about COVID-19 -- Letters about really hard things -- What we've learned

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. Cully has curated a collection of the letters, emails, drawings, and poems to reveal an intimate and inspiring 75-year conversation between America's children and its leading children's magazine. She urges 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. -- adapted from jacket