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Product Description: In this eye-opening book, the first to investigate the explosion of the multibillion-dollar preschool entertainment business and its effects on families, Dade Hayes - an entertainment expert, author, and concerned father - lifts the veil on the closely guarded process of marketing to the ultra-young and their parents...read more

Hardcover:

9781416546832 | 1 edition (Free Pr, May 6, 2008), cover price $25.00

Paperback:

9781416546849 | Free Pr, November 5, 2011, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: In this eye-opening book, the first to investigate the explosion of the multibillion-dollar preschool entertainment business and its effects on families, Dade Hayes - an entertainment expert, author, and concerned father - lifts the veil on the closely guarded process of marketing to the ultra-young and their parents.

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Details the ways in which the mere act of television-watching can affect a child's behavior, intelligence, and ability to communicate and shows how some parents have rescued their children from this drug
By Eva Reyes De Una (trans)

Paperback:

9780140076981, titled "The Plug-In Drug/Television, Children, and the Family" | Revised edition (Viking Pr, February 1, 1985), cover price $12.95 | also contains The Plug-In Drug/Television, Children, and the Family | About this edition: Details the ways in which the mere act of television-watching can affect a child's behavior, intelligence, and ability to communicate and shows how some parents have rescued their children from this drug

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Product Description: In Kids Rule! Sarah Banet-Weiser examines the cable network Nickelodeon in order to rethink the relationship between children, media, citizenship, and consumerism. Nickelodeon is arguably the most commercially successful cable network ever...read more

Hardcover:

9780822339762 | Duke Univ Pr, November 30, 2007, cover price $89.95 | About this edition: In Kids Rule!

Paperback:

9780822339939 | Duke Univ Pr, November 30, 2007, cover price $24.95

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More than five hundred illustrations, images, drawings, and sketches offer a colorful overview of all thirty-one of Nickelodeon's innovative cartoons, with a collection of unique cells, storyboards, early prototypes, and anecdotes from the creators of every show. 25,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9781595910431 | Melcher Media, October 29, 2007, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: More than five hundred illustrations, images, drawings, and sketches offer a colorful overview of all thirty-one of Nickelodeon's innovative cartoons, with a collection of unique cells, storyboards, early prototypes, and anecdotes from the creators of every show.

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An intimate portrait of the real Mister Rogers that focuses on his spiritual legacy and details the force behind a gentle man of extraordinary influence, as told by a journalist who turned a television interview with the American icon into a wonderful friendship that lasted the rest of his life. Simultaneous.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781589268418 | Unabridged edition (Oasis Audio, February 15, 2005), cover price $25.99 | About this edition: Fred Rogers visited so quietly with the children of America that nobody dreamed he was a Presbyterian minister.

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Product Description: “A revealing and hilarious look at [Sheldon’s] career, which blossomed along with TV itself. The anecdotes are endless.” — Sun NewspapersAmazing but true stories from one of the most beloved figures in Cleveland entertainment history...read more

Hardcover:

9781886228351 | Gray & Co, November 1, 1999, cover price $20.00

Paperback:

9781886228429 | Gray & Co, September 4, 2004, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: “A revealing and hilarious look at [Sheldon’s] career, which blossomed along with TV itself.

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Product Description: Nickelodeon is the highest rated daytime channel in the country, and its cultural influence has grown at an astounding pace. Why are Nickelodeon shows so popular? How are they developed and marketed? And where do they fit in the economic picture of the children's media industry? Nickelodeon Nation, the first major study of the only TV channel just for children, investigates these questions...read more
By Heather Hendershot (editor)

Hardcover:

9780814736517 | New York Univ Pr, February 1, 2004, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Nickelodeon is the highest rated daytime channel in the country, and its cultural influence has grown at an astounding pace.

Paperback:

9780814736524 | New York Univ Pr, February 1, 2004, cover price $26.00

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Product Description: A nostalgic and informative look at the golden age of children’s television. From the soothing tones and creaking marionettes of Watch With Mother in the 1950s to the surreal Time Machine-like landscapes of Teletubbyland, this examination looks at the extraordinary world of kids' television in Britain and North America...read more

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9780720611052 | Peter Owen Ltd, January 1, 2004, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A nostalgic and informative look at the golden age of children’s television.

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An expanded and updated edition of groundbreaking study details the ways in which television, computers, video games, and other modern electronic media can affect a child's behavior, intelligence, and ability to communicate. Original.

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9780142001080 | 25 anv edition (Penguin USA, May 1, 2002), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Details the ways in which television, computers, video games, and other modern electronic media can affect a child's behavior, intelligence, and ability to communicate.

Hardcover:

9781578063956 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, November 1, 2001, cover price $60.00

Paperback:

9781578063963, titled "Hi There, Boys and Girls: America's Local Children's TV Programs" | Univ Pr of Mississippi, November 1, 2001, cover price $30.00

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Product Description: Zoinks! Toys and other collectibles from Saturday morning kids programs are as yummy as a couple of fresh Scooby Snacks! This encyclopedia of 1960s to 1980s kids show collectibles will be a hot seller among Baby Boomer and Generation X collectorsthe two age groups who are most actively buying and selling these hot pop-culture items today...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780873418010, titled "Saturday Morning TV Collectibles: '60S '70s '80s" | Krause Pubns Inc, April 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Zoinks!

A delightful odyssey through the golden years of Saturday morning cartoons offers a survey of the years from 1965 to 1980, from Scooby-Doo to the Smurfs, as it defuses the controversies concerning fears about television's effects on its viewers. Original.

Paperback:

9780312169961 | Griffin, December 1, 1998, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Surveys the golden years of Saturday morning cartoons, 1965 to 1980--from Scooby-Doo to the Smurfs--as it defuses the controversies concerning fears about television's effects on its viewers

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Product Description: H.R. Pufnstuf, Lidsville, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, Land of the Lost: For a generation of children growing up in the late sixties and early seventies, these were some of the most memorable shows on Saturday morning television...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780786405183 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, September 1, 1998, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: H.

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Product Description: Book by Schrag, Robert L.

Paperback:

9780807842720 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, September 1, 1990, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Book by Schrag, Robert L.

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Product Description: Book by Schrag, Robert L.

Hardcover:

9780807818923 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, August 1, 1990, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Book by Schrag, Robert L.

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An informal history of programs for children from the beginning of television to the present discusses cartoons, live-action shows, and commercials

Hardcover:

9780517641149 | Arlington House Pub, August 1, 1988, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: An informal history of programs for children from the beginning of television to the present discusses cartoons, live-action shows, and commercials

Paperback:

9780440583615 | Dell Books, January 1, 1982, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: An informal history of programs for children from the beginning of television to the present discusses cartoons, live-action shows, and commercials

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Details the ways in which the mere act of television-watching can affect a child's behavior, intelligence, and ability to communicate and shows how some parents have rescued their children from this drug

Paperback:

9780140076981 | Revised edition (Viking Pr, February 1, 1985), cover price $12.95 | also contains Kid Paddle 4 La gorra metalica / Full Metal Casquette | About this edition: Details the ways in which the mere act of television-watching can affect a child's behavior, intelligence, and ability to communicate and shows how some parents have rescued their children from this drug

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Product Description: This is a history and an evaluation of a brave attempt to use children's television as a means of breaking down sexual and racial stereotypes. The authors, the official historian and the outside evaluator for the project, describe its evolution and the creative difficulties of reconciling the programme's twin purposes of entertainment and instruction...read more

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9780803903845 | Sage Pubns, June 1, 1982, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This is a history and an evaluation of a brave attempt to use children's television as a means of breaking down sexual and racial stereotypes.

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