Hooray for Reading
Hooray for Reading! was a series of nine shorts and one half-hour special television program created by Alan Sloan and broadcast by Field Communications in 1979.[1] The shorts aired in Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago, and San Francisco from March 31 through April 19, while the special aired on April 14.[2] Each short was one minute long and featured a child discussing something they enjoyed about a book they had read. The child would reveal the title of the book, after which there would be a short dramatization based on the book. The dramatization ended with a cliffhanger, and the child would tell the viewer that if they wanted to know what happened, they should read the book.[1] In 1980 Alan Sloan won the International Reading Association Broadcast Media Award for Television for the Hooray for Reading! series.[3]
Installments[edit]
- The Glad Man by Gloria Gonzalez
- The Year of the Whale by Victor B. Scheffer
- A Billion for Boris by Mary Rodgers
- Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume[2]
- The Accident by Carol Carrick
- The TV Kid by Betsy Byars[2]
- Is There Life on a Plastic Planet? by Mildred Ames
- Morris Brookside, a dog by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
- The Bad Times of Irma Baumlein by Carol Ryrie Brink[2]
References[edit]
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