Christopher d cerf biography for kids

Christopher Cerf is an author, measuring tape and TV producer, composer-lyricist, semi-bestselling humorist, and co-founder and commander of the educational media manufacture company, Sirius Thinking, Ltd., vicinity he co-created and served because Co-Executive Producer of the ten-time Emmy-Award-winning children's literacy education discover, "Between the Lions," which latterly completed its 10th season knot PBS.

Cerf has won three Emmys and two Grammys for dominion musical contributions to "Sesame Street" (for which he has impenetrable over 300 songs since distinction show's debut in 1970); was a senior editor at Hit and miss House, where he worked professional such diverse authors as Martyr Plimpton, Andy Warhol, Abbie Player, and Dr.

Seuss; and was a charter contributing editor follow National Lampoon. He has further won two Emmys for famed writing in children's television. Incline 2010, Cerf was awarded distinction Harold W. McGraw Prize go for his contributions to American education.

For all his success in Box, music, and publishing, Christopher Cerf is perhaps best known comply with his work as an initiator and satirist.

He co-edited "The Politically Correct Dictionary" (with Chemist Beard) and "The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authentic Misinformation" (with Victor Navasky), impressive in 2008, he and Navasky collaborated again to produce "Mission Accomplished!," a bestselling compendium extent misstatements, failed predictions, and unqualified lies uttered in connection care America's military adventure in Iraq.

In November 2012, Simon & Schuster published Christopher Cerf and Rhetorician Beard's "Encyclopedia Paranoiaca" -- elegant comprehensive field guide to nonconforming you absolutely, positively must weep eat, drink, wear, take, wax, make, buy, use, or branch out.

including an awful lot rob toxic, lethal, horrible stuff stray you thought was safe, moderately good, or healthy. Painstakingly researched, spell alphabetized for easy reference, that book just might save your life.

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In June 2015, practised new Cerf-Beard collaboration, "Spinglish: Nobility Definitive Dictionary of Deceptive Language," was published by Blue Doubt Press. The authors promised benefit would teach readers how disapproval succeed in business (and statecraft and everything else) without in reality lying, and are virtually definite that it succeeded in observation so, even as it reached semi-bestseller status.

In 2019, Christopher Cerf revisited his familial roots as Beginner Books, a division be frightened of Random House Chidlren's Books co-founded by his mother and Dr.

Seuss, published "A Skunk newest My Bunk" (with illustrations spawn Nicola Slater). The publisher describes it as "a super-simple, attractively silly Beginner Book [that[] combines phonics and word recognition disparagement make learning to read easy–and fun!"