Children can now read books with their Sesame Street friends online. There are ebooks available http://ebooks.sesamestreet.org . For a $39.99 subscription fee families have a full access to the ebooks for an entire year. Those that subscribe by July 4, 2010 pay the discounted subscription price of $24.99. There are also five ebooks that are available for free at http://ebooks.sesamestreet.org/free.
Titles are offered in a variety of formats: eBooks allow a child to read along at their own pace; audio eBooks contain narration, sound effects, and music; animated eBooks bring beloved Sesame Street characters and stories to life in full-color animation; and interactive eBooks invite children to play along and learn.
Other features include an auto-play option that turns the pages for the reader and text highlighting that visually reinforces the narration in audio eBooks. The site also provides the option of viewing in Kids Mode, which simplifies the navigation for a child by displaying only the available books while removing parent tips and menus. eBook titles cover 19 subject areas including letters, numbers, counting, colors, and cultural appreciation.
Beaches Resorts offers a Sesame Street experience for children and their families at several of their Caribbean destinations. Sesame Street is an international favorite that is aired in countries across the world. Vacationing children will be familiar with the Sesame Street friends. Elmo, Zoe, Grover, Cookie Monster, Abby Cadabby, The Count and Bert & Ernie are already at the Beaches Turks & Caicos Resort Villages & Spa and Beaches Negril Resort & Spa. Now Big Bird will be flying on down to join his friends in those Beaches Resorts.
Sesame Street has the third most Daytime Emmy nominations this year ( General Hospital is first with 18 Emmy nominations and Young and the Restless is second with 16 Emmy nominations). Five of those nominations are for Outstanding Performer in a Children’s Series: Kevin Clash as Elmo; Carol Spinney as Big Bird; Chris Knowings as Chris Robinson; Joey Mazzarino as Stinky, Murry, and Blogg; and David Rudman as Baby Bear.
Other Nominations are:
Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design/Styling
Outstanding Directing in a Children’s Series
Outstanding Achievement in Multiple Camera Editing
Outstanding Achievement in Main Title and Graphic Design
Outstanding Original Song-Children’s and Animation
Outstanding Achievement in Technical Direction/Electronic Camera/Video Control
Elmo and Cookie Monster visited a local Pennsylvania news station to promote Sesame Street Live-When Elmo Grows up. Elmo and Cookie Monster did two song and dances from the When Elmo Grows Up show. When Elmo grows up he say he wants to be a weather monster, while Cookie Monster wants to be a monster firefighter. In Sesame Street Live: When Elmo Grows Up, Elmo, Cookie Monster and his other friends explain what they want to be when they are older.
Sesame Street is airing “When Families Grieve” on PBS this Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 8pm. It is program to help children that have lost someone that they love. Sesame Street has provided a preview so that you can get idea of what the program will discuss. We hear from children and their surviving parents after they have had to deal with a death of a parent. Elmo deals with the death of his uncle. Elmo and Katie Couric host the special.
Monday was the 2010 Easter Egg Roll at the Whitehouse. Elmo and Maria from Sesame Street were on hand to read a book Stretch by Doreen Cronin to the children. Not only was the Easter Egg Roll fun, it was also educational. Children were able to use microscopes and learn about different ways to be healthy.
Sesame Street, along with many of the other PBS children shows, will have special programming for Earth Day. The special programming will be a part of what PBS calls “Share the Earth Day.”
Sesame Street’s special program will be “Wild Nature Survivor Guy”
Wild Nature Survivor Guy is accustomed to surviving in the wilds of nature and thinks he needs to “survive” out on Sesame Street. First, Wild Nature Survivor Guy finds a tomato plant and bites into a ripe tomato. Not only do tomatoes come from nature, but so do all the fruits and vegetables on display outside Hooper’s store. Next, Wild Nature Survival Guy looks for water to quench his thirst. He finds leaves with drops of water and gathers the droplets to drink.
Sesame Street wants kids to not only learn about healthy eating, they want them to also have access to healthy foods. Sesame Street and AmeriChoice will be teaming together to provide bilingual educational resources for parents to make healthy choices to food.
Program outreach will include bilingual (English and Spanish) Healthy Habits kits with an original DVD starring the Sesame Street Muppets and a documentary of families along with their children using a variety of strategies for maintaining Healthy Habits for Life despite limited financial resources.
The kits will also include child-friendly recipes, activity cards and a parent/caregiver guide with information about healthful eating and ways to make nutritional and economical food choices for the entire family. In addition, AmeriChoice will send Healthy Habits for Life messages and information to low-income and vulnerable populations in public sector health care programs via the Web, physician mailings, and member mailings and newsletters that will go to 3 million members.
For the remainder of 2010, your preschooler can get free admission to the Busch Gardens Tampa Bay. The free passes are a way to celebrate the new Sesame Street Safari play area opening at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay this March. The passes are available only for children that are Florida residents 5 years-old and under. You can go to http://sesamestreetsafarioffun.com to register for the free pass.
“Sesame Street Live: When Elmo Grows Up” will be in Mansfield, Ohio at the Renaissance Theater from March 23rd to March 24th 2010. If you leave a comment at http://blog.cleveland.com/westsidemom/2010/02/sesame_street_live_-_review_an.html you can be randomly entered to win a 4-pack of tickets to the “Sesame Street Live: When Elmo Grows Up.”
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