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''Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street'' is a non-fiction book chronicling the history of the children's television program, ''Sesame Street''. ''Street Gang'' is journalist and writer Michael Davis's first book, published by Viking Press in 2008. On bookshelves in time for the show's 40th anniversary in 2009, the book developed out of a ''TV Guide'' article Davis wrote to commemorate the show's 35th anniversary in 2004. Davis spent five years researching and writing the book, and conducted hundreds of interviews with the show's creators, cast, and crew. ''Street Gang'' begins with a description of Muppet creator Jim Henson's 1990 funeral, from the perspective of co-creator Joan Ganz Cooney. Its first twelve chapters describe the origin, development, and early years of ''Sesame Street'' and the Children's Television Workshop, the organization created to oversee the production of the show and other projects. Davis includes the biographies of many of the key people involved with the creation and production of ''Sesame Street''. Subsequent chapters chronicle the rest of the show's history, up to its 40th anniversary in 2009. Reviews of ''Street Gang'' were mostly positive. Most reviewers were impressed by Davis' research and attention to detail, but some felt that it was too episodic and was more of an oral history than a dispassionate history of the show's history. One reviewer predicted that the book would become the definitive source of ''Sesame Street''. ''Street Gang'' was made into an audio book, narrated by Caroll Spinney, the same day it was published. A second edition was published later that year. ==Background== Michael Davis, a senior editor for ''TV Guide'' from 1998 to 2007, wrote an article in the magazine to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the children's television show ''Sesame Street'' in 2004. ''Street Gang'' developed out of the article. Davis spent five years researching and writing the book and worked with the cooperation of co-creator Joan Ganz Cooney.〔 In 2009, ''Sesame Street'' celebrated its 40th anniversary. It was the fifteenth-highest rated children's television show in the United States and had won 8 Grammy Awards and over 100 Emmy Awards—more than any other children's show. By 2006, there were independently produced versions, or "co-productions", of ''Sesame Street'' broadcast in twenty countries. In 2001 there were over 120 million viewers of these international versions, and by 2009, it was broadcast in more than 140 countries. A 1996 survey found that 95% of all American preschoolers had watched the show by the time they were three years old. In 2008, it was estimated that 77 million Americans had watched the series as children.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Street Gang」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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