Jim Henson
Subtitle: the guy who played with puppets
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780375857218
Table of contents: title: Jim Henson's family didn't have a TV; title: At his grandparents' house, he liked to listen to his cousins trying to top each other with hilarious stories at the dinner table; title: He put on shows for the family in the backyard, using props he found around the house; title: Still no TV, but he and Paul built their own crystal radio set; title: Jim's thirteenth year stood out; title: Puppets struck some people as babyish, but Jim really wanted to go on TV; title: Jim wanted his creatures to be able to smile or frown or express any emotion; title: Sam and Friends ran for six successful years; title: All during the 1960s, the Hensons' Muppets made watching TV commercials fun; title: One day in 1968, he got a phone call that would change his life; title: Along with a team of brilliant writers and musicians at Joan's new Children's Television Workshop, Jim's company got busy; title: Sesame Street launched on November 10, 1969; title: Bert, Ernie, and the others soon became best friends to millions of children around the world getting ready for school; title: Muppets helped introduce the first season of Saturday Night Live in 1975, and then starred in their own show the following year; title: It was heartbreaking to everyone who knew him, and to millions who didn't, when Jim Henson died unexpectedly, after a short illness, at the age of fifty-three.