A new imaginative play for young people from award-winning writer Kieran Lynn, winner of the Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize 2018. Alex and Sara are worried. Their daughter Lee starts school soon and they think her best friend Ernie is going to be a problem. It isn’t that he is badly behaved or mischievous, the problem with Ernie is that he is imaginary. They hatch a plan to force their daughter to grow up and to get rid of Ernie. But as the plan begins to work they learn a lesson that parent...
Circle It, 1970s Educational Shows, Word Search, Puzzle Book
by Joe Aguilar and Mark Schumacher
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Pieces of Wisdom Jigsaw Puzzle Book (Jigsaw Puzzle Books)
Childhood in Animation (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)
by Jane Batkin
Childhood in Animation: Navigating a Secret World explores how children are viewed in cinema and television and examines the screen spaces that they occupy. The image of the child is often a site of conflict, one that has been captured, preserved and recollected on screen; but what do these representations tell us about the animated child and how it compares to its live action counterpart? Is childhood simply a metaphor for innocence, or something far more complex that embraces agency, performa...
Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock Omnibus (Fraggle Rock, #1)
by Jeffrey Brown, Katie Cook, and Sam Humphries
Dance your cares away with this omnibus collection of short stories featuring the beloved characters of Jim Henson’s Fraggle Rock. Celebrating 35 Years of Jim Henson’s Fraggle Rock! Rediscover the wonderful world of Jim Henson’s iconic television series Fraggle Rock in this definitive collection of tales from some of the most imaginative minds in comics. Mokey, Wembley, Boober, and Red are back, dancing, playing, and trying to stay out of trouble in all-new adventures. Featuring heartwarm...
Say ‘Eh-oh!’ to Nikky Smedley and Laa-Laa Over the Hills and Far Away follows Nikky through the Teletubbies years, from her role as a bistro table during her audition to the show’s international success and the accompanying hounding by the press. In this warm, funny, affectionate look back at life on the Teletubbies set, Nikky reveals all, including tales about dogs and asthma, raging arguments about fruit, and the games the cast and crew played to amuse themselves during long shoots in their m...
Horrifying Children
Horrifying Children examines weird and eerie children’s television and literature via critical analysis, memoir and autoethnography. There has been an explosion of interest in the impact of children’s television and literature of the late twentieth century. In particular, the 1970s, ‘80s and ‘90s are seen as decades that shaped a great deal of the contemporary cultural landscape. Television of this period dominated the world of childhood entertainment, drawing freely upon literature and popular...
This fun activity book is jam-packed with recent comics and characters from Beanotown to colour in.Beanotown has lost its colour! Can you help Dennis and Minnie bring it back?This first Beano Colouring Book features comic strips from recent issues of Beano, sneak-peeks inside the buildings of Beanotown, favourite characters up to their usual tricks and even jokes thrown in to keep your sides splitting.With official Beano artwork, and detailed scenes from around Beanotown, this book is sure to ke...
Children, Youth, and International Television (Routledge Advances in Television Studies)
This volume explores how television has been a significant conduit for the public consumption of changing ideas about children, childhood, and national identity, via a critical examination of programs that prominently feature children and youth in international television. The chapters connect relevant cultural attitudes within their respective countries to an analysis of children and/or childhood in international children’s programming. The collection addresses how international children’s pr...
This official tie-in book to Marilyn Agrelo’s (Mad Hot Ballroom) documentary Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street supplements the film’s exploration of the origins and legacy of Sesame Street with exclusive interviews and unseen photographs from first two seasons of this globally beloved series. Author Trevor Crafts, who was given unprecedented access to archival footage and photography, presents 150 of photographer David Attie’s behind-the-scenes images of Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Matt Robinso...
From Captain Penny to Superhost
by Mike Olszewski and Janice Olszewski
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, which began as The Children's Corner in 1953 and terminated in 2001, left its mark on America. The show's message of kindness, simplicity, and individual uniqueness made Rogers a beloved personality, while also provoking some criticism because, by arguing that everyone was special without having to do anything to earn it, the show supposedly created an entitled generation. In Mister Rogers and Philosophy, thirty philosophers give their very different takes on th...
Rocko's Modern Life Pocket Notebook Collection (Set of 3) (90's Classics)
Legend Of Korra, The: The Art Of The Animated Series Book One (Legend of Korra)
by Michael Dante DiMartino
Return to the world of Avatar! This handsome hardcover contains hundreds of pieces of never-before-seen artwork created during the development of Season 1 of The Legend of Korra. With captions from Mike and Bryan throughout, this is an intimate look inside the creative process that brought the mystical world of bending and a new generation of heroes to life! * Captions bycreators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko! * Follow-up to smash hit animated series Avatar: The Last Airbende...
The final season of The Legend of Korra animated TV series--created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko--the smash hit sequel to their blockbuster show Avatar: The Last Airbender, is revealed! Go behind the scenes and uncover the phenomenal never-before-seen artwork that went into creating this beloved series' final season! Creator captions will give you an exclusive look at every aspect of the show; it's like having your own backstage pass to The Legend of Korra Book Four:...