Microsoft today unveiled a new initiative, dubbed playful learning, that will use the Xbox 360 Kinect sensor to increase the ways kids interact with some of their favorite educational television ...

Big Bird, Elmo, Grover, Cookie Monster, Ernie, Bert and Oscar the Grouch celebrate 50 years on Sesame Street. (Photos by Sesame Workshop) Fifty years ago, a television producer’s desire to teach ...

Cheryl Henson, daughter of Jim Henson, donated 21 Muppet puppets and props to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History on Sept. 24, reports USA Today. The latest band of furry Muppets to ...

The red-furred bane of virtually every parent’s existence, Elmo has long since seized control of Sesame Street, ruling over the Muppets who once looked down upon him as a mere baby monster. To be fair ...

WASHINGTON — Miss Piggy is finally joining her love Kermit the Frog in the Smithsonian Institution’s collection of Jim Henson‘s Muppets, and Bert and Ernie will have a place in history, too. Henson’s ...

Count von Count and the NPR kids count us down: 5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ... 1! And there they are at the Tiny Desk: Big Bird, Bert and Ernie, Rosita, Abby Cadabby and ...

Happy birthday, “Sesame Street.” You are 40 years old now, just a year younger than Mickey Mouse was the year you arrived on television -- and he was semi-retired by then, while you still report to ...

PBS kids’ staple Sesame Street recently published multiple Pride Month posts to Twitter, using several of its kid-favorite puppet characters to "celebrate diversity." The posts generated a wave a ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. “Sesame Street” made its debut in 1969, and children’s ...

Groundbreaking, engaging, educational — "Sesame Street" is all of those things, and on Monday, the Muppet-filled classic is also 45 years old."Sesame Street" debuted on NET (before the days of PBS ) ...

The worlds of high art and childhood nostalgia collide once more, as KAWS and AllRightsReserved continue their fruitful ...

With a number of LGBTQ+ guests of late, is Sesame Street becoming the hub of a bustling new gayborhood? Well, not exactly. But we’re always happy to see the long-running children’s program stand by ...