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04653aam a22006498i 4500 001 0E7D5DAE902811EAAF12331197128E48 003 SILO 005 20200507010018 008 191220s2020 nyu b 000 0 eng 010 $a 2019059612 020 $a 1501137808 020 $a 9781501137808 035 $a (OCoLC)1135914031 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PN1992.8.C46 $b K36 2020 082 00 $a 791.450283 $2 23 100 1 $a Kamp, David, $e author. 245 10 $a Sunny days : $b the children's television revolution that changed America / $c David Kamp ; foreword by Questlove. 250 $a First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Simon & Schuster, $c 2020. 300 $a xxii, 326 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "In 1970, in soundstage on Manhattan's Upper West Side, a group of men and women of various ages and races met to finish the first season of a children's TV program. They had identified a social problem: poor children were entering kindergarten without the learning skills of their middle-class counterparts. They hoped, too, that they had identified a solution: to use television to better prepare these disadvantaged kids for school. No one knew then, but this children's TV program would go on to start a cultural revolution. It was called Sesame Street. Sesame Street was part of a larger movement that saw media professionals and thought leaders leveraging their influence to help children learn. A year and a half earlier, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood premiered. Fast on its heels came Schoolhouse Rock!, a video series dreamed up by Madison Avenue admen to teach kids times tables, civics, and grammatical rules, and Free to Be... You and Me, the TV star Marlo Thomas's audacious multi-pronged campaign (it was first a record album, and then a book and a television special) to instill the concept of gender equality in young minds. There was more: programs such as The Electric Company, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, ZOOM, and others followed, and captivated young viewers. In Sunny Days, bestselling author David Kamp takes readers behind the scenes to show how these programs made it on air. He draws on hundreds of hours of interviews from the creators and participants of these programs-among them Joan Ganz Cooney, Lloyd Morrisett, Newton Minow, Sonia Manzano, Loretta Long, Bob McGrath, Marlo Thomas, and Rita Moreno-as well as archival research. Kamp explains how these like-minded individuals found their way into television, not as fame- or money-hungry would-be auteurs and stars, but as people who wanted to use TV to help children. This is both a fun and fascinating story, and a masterful work of cultural history. Sunny Days captures a period in children's television where enlightened progressivism prevailed, and shows how this period changed the lives of millions. Nothing had ever happened like this before, Kamp forcefully and eloquently argues, and nothing has ever happened like it since"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 650 0 $a Children's television programs $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Television programs $x History $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 7 $a Children's television programs. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01716047 650 7 $a Television programs $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01147057 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 700 1 $a Questlove, $e author of foreword. 941 $a 21 952 $l DPPE403 $d 20240611021551.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409035002.0 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314021208.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012012010.0 952 $l GKPC851 $d 20230228020716.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909060659.0 952 $l BVPE851 $d 20220728013142.0 952 $l YCPD572 $d 20220518024140.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317030042.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210804011724.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722062953.0 952 $l FYPI314 $d 20210302015525.0 952 $l AJPE887 $d 20210224010335.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20201007082850.0 952 $l CQPE926 $d 20200917010202.0 952 $l RZPE145 $d 20200910010514.0 952 $l WSPF215 $d 20200806025945.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20200703010524.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20200612011448.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20200610030212.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20200602014449.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0E7D5DAE902811EAAF12331197128E48 994 $a Z0 $b LJWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search