<p> Bibliography</p><p>Primary Sources</p><p>Begley, Sarah. "Sesame Street's Gordon Looks Back on 45 Years of Impact." Time.com. Time, 10 </p><p>Nov. 2014. Web. 20 Nov. 2014. <http://time.com/3572898/sesame-street-gordon-45-years/>. </p><p>This article was written for Time magazine this year as Sesame Street celebrates its 45th year </p><p> on television. Gordon explains why he feels the show has remained so popular and so </p><p> important. The article has excellent comments on the legacy of the show from one of its </p><p> original cast members.</p><p>Clash, Kevin, and Gary Brozek. My Life as a Furry Red Monster: What Being Elmo Has Taught Me </p><p> about Life, Love, and Laughing out Loud. New York: Broadway, 2006. Print. </p><p>Most of this book is about what Kevin Clash has learned from his career as Elmo. Although </p><p> that was really interesting and funny, the parts that are most helpful to my project are the way </p><p> he talks about the impact Elmo and Sesame Street have on children. He describes how Elmo </p><p> was created to help kids see the role of a younger sibling in a family setting and how they need </p><p> to feel important even though they are little. This book gives me a much better understanding </p><p> of how detailed the creators are when they think about the impact the show will have on kids.</p><p>Gould, Jack. "This 'Sesame' May Open the Right Doors." New York Times 23 Nov. 1969: D21. Print. </p><p>This article appeared in the New York Times just before Sesame Street first aired. It has great </p><p> information about the early expectations for the show and why it showed great leadership in the</p><p> television industry. It is helpful to me as I lay out the main event section of my project.</p><p>Hellman, Peter. "Street Smart: How Big Bird & Co. Do It." New York Magazine 23 Nov. 1987: 48-53. </p><p>This magazine article discusses the current issues facing Sesame Street as well as some of its </p><p> goals and challenges when it first aired. It provides a unique perspective of the difficulties of </p><p> creating an educational show for children. I included it as a primary source because it uses first- hand information about the current legacy from people who have always worked with the </p><p> show. I will use this information as I put together my sections on long term importance to </p><p> history and conclusions.</p><p>"Loretta Long on the Diversity of Sesame Street." Interview by Loretta Long and Karen Herman. </p><p>Archive of American Television. Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, 21 July 2004. Web.</p><p>20 Nov. 2014. <http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/loretta-long>. </p><p>This is an interview with Loretta Long who has played the character of Susan on Sesame Street </p><p> since it first aired. She talks about how the cast was very different than most TV shows of that </p><p> time because they purposely had members that represented a variety of cultural groups. This </p><p> helps me to better understand the impact that the show would have had on children and how </p><p> important it was a leader in more parts of education than just learning letters and numbers.</p><p>Nixon, Richard M. Letter to Joan Ganz Cooney. 28 Jan. 1970. MS. Children's Television Workshop, </p><p>New York City, New York. </p><p>Pres. Richard Nixon wrote this letter to the creator of Sesame Street to show his support for this</p><p> new educational program. It helps me to understand just how important this show was at the </p><p> time and the impact that it had immediately on our nation.</p><p>Bibliography</p><p>Secondary Sources</p><p>Brooke, Jill. "'Sesame Street Takes a Bow to 30 Animated Years'" CNN.com Entertainment. CNN, 13 </p><p>Nov. 1998. Web. 20 Nov. 2014. <http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/TV/981113/sesame.street>. </p><p>This is a brief online article that recounts the importance of Sesame Street as it celebrated 30 </p><p> years of being on television. I was able to pull a couple quotes that help me show its continuing</p><p> importance to history. Davis, Michael. Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street. New York: Viking, 2008. Print. </p><p>This amazing book includes just about anything you ever wanted to know about Sesame Street: </p><p> how it got started, who came up with the idea and why, how it changed over the years, etc. It </p><p> really helped fill in some gaps that I had for placing Sesame Street in historical context, but I </p><p> will also use information from it in all of the other sections of my project.</p><p>Fisch, Shalom M., and Rosemarie T. Truglio. "G" Is for Growing: Thirty Years of Research on </p><p>Children and Sesame Street. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2001. Print. </p><p>Research and data are sometimes hard to read, but this book explained all of the research that </p><p> has been done on Sesame Street in a way that was easy to understand. All of this research </p><p> shows how important Sesame Street is to the education of children before they get to </p><p> kindergarten, especially for kids from low-income families. This information is really helpful to</p><p> me as I put together the importance of Sesame Street to history.</p><p>Fleischman, Barbarra G. ""Somebody Come and Play:" 45 Years of Sesame Street Helping Kids Grow</p><p>Smarter, Stronger, and Kinder." Welcome to The New York Public Library. New York Public </p><p>Library, 2014. Web. 20 Nov. 2014. <http://www.nypl.org/sesamestreet>. </p><p>This brief article on the NY Public Library website shows how important Sesame Street has </p><p> been to kids. They are devoting a whole exhibit and special events to celebrate its effect on </p><p> kids. There is a really great quote from the head librarian that I plan to use in my long term </p><p> impact section.</p>