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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 22:12:18 -0600
One of the "sleepers" of 1998 is a retrospective about the television program Sesame Street. Its primary audience is probably adults who remember watching Sesame Street as young children and/or older kids who read fairly well and are confident enough of themselves to be seen with a book about this famous program for preschoolers. Sesame Street Unpaved: Scripts, Stories, Secrets and Songs was written by David Borgenicht (Hyperion, 1998). At $24.95 a copy, it's an authorized history published on the occasion of - get ready for a somewhat alarming factoid - the 30th anniversary of Sesame Street.
The contents of this 191-page hardcover book are: 1) Can You Tell Me How We Got to Sesame Street? (development of the concept, the "Sesame Street Story"); 2) I Can't Hear You - I've Got a Banana in My Ear (The Classic Moments); 3) Who are the People in Your Neighborhood? (The Cast); 4) Sing - Sing a Song (The Music and Poems of Sesame Street); and 5) "Psst! Hey Buddy!" (Behind the scenes)
It's a book I've noticed quite a few adults planning to buy for other adults, or for themselves, or for anyone who might want to visit this community where s/he once "lived." This visit won't make Sesame Street
"feel smaller" when you go there, in the way return visits to childhood sites often can seem. Enjoy! ...Ginny
********************************************************* Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education (www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/) University of Wisconsin - Madison
Received on Mon 30 Nov 1998 10:12:18 PM CST
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 22:12:18 -0600
One of the "sleepers" of 1998 is a retrospective about the television program Sesame Street. Its primary audience is probably adults who remember watching Sesame Street as young children and/or older kids who read fairly well and are confident enough of themselves to be seen with a book about this famous program for preschoolers. Sesame Street Unpaved: Scripts, Stories, Secrets and Songs was written by David Borgenicht (Hyperion, 1998). At $24.95 a copy, it's an authorized history published on the occasion of - get ready for a somewhat alarming factoid - the 30th anniversary of Sesame Street.
The contents of this 191-page hardcover book are: 1) Can You Tell Me How We Got to Sesame Street? (development of the concept, the "Sesame Street Story"); 2) I Can't Hear You - I've Got a Banana in My Ear (The Classic Moments); 3) Who are the People in Your Neighborhood? (The Cast); 4) Sing - Sing a Song (The Music and Poems of Sesame Street); and 5) "Psst! Hey Buddy!" (Behind the scenes)
It's a book I've noticed quite a few adults planning to buy for other adults, or for themselves, or for anyone who might want to visit this community where s/he once "lived." This visit won't make Sesame Street
"feel smaller" when you go there, in the way return visits to childhood sites often can seem. Enjoy! ...Ginny
********************************************************* Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education (www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/) University of Wisconsin - Madison
Received on Mon 30 Nov 1998 10:12:18 PM CST
