Spongeheadz: U & MEdia

SPONGEHEADZ: U & MEdia is a user-friendly guide to 21st century media for children with smart, busy parents. Built around the framework of the remote control, this book offers short chapters on each button, with a twist. The chapter on the COLOR button is about the importance of on-screen diversity, since children always look for faces like their own. The SELECT button is about advertising that targets children. And in a tongue-in-cheek nod to a network that doesn’t seem to offer any, the BALANCE button is about news. And so on. There is no other book about TV like SPONGEHEADZ: U & MEdia. It presents facts and trends in an engaging format, and offers activities, info, web sites, resources, quotes from kids and other VIP’s (from Jon Stewart to John Lennon), drawings by schoolchildren, and cartoons by the legendary John Callahan. Funny, informative, progressive and thought-provoking, SPONGEHEADZ: U & MEdia gives parents a way to make sense of our TV-saturated world.