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Sesame Street: A Celebration Of 40 Years Of Life On The Street (2009)

by Louise Gikow(Favorite Author)

4.47 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1579126383 (ISBN13: 9781579126384)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers

review 1: This appears to be from the same public relations outfit as the Borgenicht book. In other words, the Sesame Workshop. The one where David (Northern Calloway) died of stomach cancer and Richard Hunt died, but not of AIDS. It's a lot more informational than the Borgenicht book and is more readable than the Michael Davis book, which covers the history of the development of Sesame Street but very little of the show itself. This one has lots of words and lots of pictures and is coffee-table sized. A few things that bug me with it are that the pages are really shiny and reflect the light (galling in places of white font on black background) and that some of the dates of events (or people being on the cast or appearing on the show) are incorrect. Also some of the pictures a... morere incorrectly captioned or not captioned at all. Aside from those issues this is the best Sesame Street history book I've read so far, and it is current up to 2009, though I can't say much for the accuracy of much of the past 20 years, since I quit watching it until just a couple months ago.
review 2: I thoroughly enjoyed reading through this behind-the-scenes look at the life of Sesame Street. Densely packed with information about every facet of the program from its founding (including lots of academic research to direct it--I love this as an educator), characters, puppeteers and puppeteering techniques, and bios of past and present human stars, this was a treat to dig into every time I picked it up to continue my journey through the years. Everyone will be reminded of old familiar songs and letter or number "advertisements" from their childhood--friends and family who peeked over my shoulder exclaimed, "Oh! I remember that!" It was a joyful revisiting of my childhood (I was two when Sesame Street began airing) and the people--and puppets--I met along the way. May it run another 40 years! less

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