And a lifetime ago.
Twice.
Posting this today as it’s been 20 years since the return of Beakman’s World (in reruns not new episodes) was announced (or reported, rather) in the New York Times. And that was 14 years after the show originally aired.
Why was it back?
Continue reading A World AwayMy son has an uncanny ability to plan his exhibits around times that make them pertinent beyond the capricious interests of a child his age. Some of the other exhibits he’s curated have all landed in or around thematically appropriate semesters. (e.g. Smurfs’ 65th anniversary and the release of The Garfield Movie). This one is no exception.
Continue reading Crikey! Twenty Years GoneJust a few days before his next birthday and he chose to swap out Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with everyone’s friends from Sesame Street. To get to this street, you’ll need to find Bizzell Memorial Library and head to the third floor across from the PS call numbers. He chose this topic earlier in the year before it was announced that Sesame Street was losing funding, so it now has an added importance.
Continue reading Sesame StreetOther top contenders for the title of this post were “Consider the Trench Coat,” “Understanding the Trench Trope,” and “The Wearing of the Trope Coat.”
Gathering the content for my earlier Fantastic Four post brought to mind something else I have been wanting to put together. This one has to do with costumes, or more appropriately disguises over costumes, at least in these early cases.
One of the things we consciously try to do with (or for) our children is to not dump our nostalgia or fandoms onto them so they can develop their own affinities. Most of the time, it turns out they end up liking what we like. Other times it goes off in a different direction than you experienced and can open up a whole new world, or worlds.
This is one of those times.
Continue reading Well That’s…FantasticThis is another of those larger exhibits my son helps out on. I want to do a much longer post about the Berenstain Bears and their evolution across the decades, but this one was a bit of a test for something I want to do every year as a kind of a summer reading program.
Continue reading Berenstain BearsWhat a summer of Wacky Races. We watched all the original series and all of the 2019 Boomerang Series as well. We also ventured across Arkansas ourselves to pick up our Count Car. I also still need to put together a post on Motor Movie Madness about all the racing films that came along in the vein of The Great Race.
Continue reading Way Out Wacky RacesNow we are down to school break and semester rotations. Wrapping up the Smurfs anniversary Garfield gets the exhibit treatment. Mostly from watching the old cartoon and reading the books we have.
Continue reading GarfieldBeakman and Ms. Frizzle was constant company for almost a year. But when school was out he wanted to change things up. We had been reading some old smurfs books and watching the old and new cartoons so he picked the Smurfs.
Continue reading Smurfs at 65Just a month after turning four he had plans for his first exhibit. Beakman’s World and The Magic School Bus.
Continue reading Beakman’s World & The Magic School Bus
