“We felt in a TV show that would be Chinese water torture,” she said.
Unlike the books, the show isn’t entirely in rhyme.
“It’s about the process of asking questions, which is the very thing that gets put to sleep in kids in the early grades,” Ms. PBS approached Random House in 2004, after Linda Simensky, vice president for children’s programming, saw the books.įor the television series the producers added the adventure story line, changed the ethnicity of one child for diversity, and made the search for answers participatory. The first of 24 books was published in 1998, with a more Earth-oriented curriculum. You don’t risk an icon.”Įventually the Learning Library idea was revived, but without NASA. “We would joke among ourselves about what would happen if the rocket crashed, or disappeared. “The reaction at Random House was deep grief over Ted’s death, and tremendous relief that the project was off the boards,” Ms. The Cat has that kind of childlike exuberance and childlike nature.” He would jump in the air, sit on a lap, chase someone. “What I meant by that is, I always found that Harpo had a kind of unpredictable madness to him.
Short said with a laugh in a telephone interview. Short said he saw Harpo Marx in the Cat, a curious choice given that Marx never spoke and the Cat never stops speaking. In a video shown to the Television Critics Association this month Mr. Martin Short is the voice of the Cat, who leads his young playmates on fanciful adventures in the natural science world, exploring how bees make honey, why birds migrate and how being slow helps a sloth. On Labor Day PBS introduces “The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!,” a daily half-hour program based on Random House’s Learning Library series. More than half a century later his floppy-hatted hero is being recruited again to help promote childhood learning: this time, though, it’s keeping kids excited about science. Seuss, created “The Cat in the Hat” in response to concerns that American children were lagging in literacy. BACK in the 1950s Theodor Geisel, a k a Dr.
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