History of Sesame Street including changing its traditional magazine format to a narrative format. Because of the popularity of the Muppet Elmo, the show incorporated a popular segment known as "Elmo's World". "Sesame Street" has won eight Grammys and over a hundred Emmys in its history—more than any other children's show. In the late 1960s, 97% of all American households owned a television set, and preschool children watched an average of 27 hours of television per week; programs created for them were widely criticized for being too violent and for reflecting commercial values. Producer Joan Ganz Cooney called children's programming a "wasteland", and she
S. A. Wakefield S. A. Wakefield Sydney Wakefield was born in Australia to English immigrant parents on 13 May 1927. In 1945 he enlisted and was commissioned into the 2nd Punjab Regiment. After the end of World War 2 he joined his father who had an orchard Gosford, New South Wales. After studying Social Studies at Sydney University (1949-50), he married (1953), and started a farm at Kariong, New South Wales. He wrote short stories for children about "Bottersnikes and Gumbles", which contain a mixture of absurdity, humour, puns, as well as carrying an environmental message. Wakefield wrote four books about the Bottersnikes