he unnecessarily included the more ridiculous criticisms in order to give Sesame Street and the Workshop more credibility. Rose K. Goldsen of Cornell University criticizes Lesser for legitimizing "the strange folk belief that depositing lore in a child's head is the same as educating a child". She criticizes the research Lesser describes in the book, and insists that it should be considered as product-testing rather than educational research. She also criticizes Lesser for legitimizing consumerism. Ellen Wartella of Northwestern University called Children and Television a "profound book" that greatly influenced the field of children and media. She said that it was the first book in the U.S. that established the idea that children and television could be studied from a developmental perspective, that academics could be involved in the production of educational television programs, and that "children's development and our understanding of children's development could be important in the creation of media products". The book also had a profound effect how later research has been conducted, and has been cited in hundreds of studies and books. Works cited Kearney, Melissa S., and Phillip B. Levine. 2019. "Early Childhood Education by Television: Lessons from Sesame Street." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 11 (1): 318-50. Davis, Michael (2008). Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street. New York: Viking Press. Lesser, Gerald S. (1974). Children and Television: Lessons From Sesame Street. New York: Vintage Books. Morrow, Robert W. (2006). Sesame Street and the Reform of Children's Television. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. Palmer, Edward L. and Shalom M. Fisch (2001). "The Beginnings of Sesame Street Research". In "G" is for Growing: Thirty Years of Research on Children and Sesame Street, Fisch, Shalom M. and Rosemarie T. Truglio, eds. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers. Citations 1974 non-fiction books American non-fiction books Books about television Sesame Street books