The TV Book : The Kids' Guide to Talking Back - Softcover

Wallace, Shelagh

9781550374803: The TV Book : The Kids' Guide to Talking Back

Softcover

ISBN 10: 155037480X ISBN 13: 9781550374803

Publisher: Annick Press, 1996

For kids who watch TV, this book will help expand their television knowledge. The author ventures behind the scenes and screens to talk with television's insiders and people in the know. The text throughout is accompanied by sidebars and attention-grabbing graphics. The book is designed so readers can read it straight through or flip around like a channel surfer. Full color.

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About the Author:

by Shelagh Wallace and illustrated by Lorraine Tuson and Brian Bean

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Gr. 5^-8. Here's a book that gets kids to think about television as well as watch it. Graphically pleasing and written in an easy-to-comprehend style, it shows children how television works on viewers psychologically; how television shows are developed, tested, aired, and canceled; and how commercials are designed and used, among many other topics. Readers are asked questions throughout, both within the body of the text and in sidebars. For instance, in a discussion of television violence, readers are asked to consider violent acts they have seen on TV, everything from war scenes on the six o'clock news to the Three Stooges poking each other in the eye. Interspersed with the text are interviews with people working in television, in front of and behind the camera. Sometimes they say things that are unintentionally illuminating. For instance, a casting director remarks, "Take a TV movie based on a real-life story--the woman in the story may be fat and pimply in real life, but you can't show this on TV because nobody would watch her." Kids who really want to talk back to TV are offered numerous addresses where they can voice their opinions. Excellent. Ilene Cooper

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