Christopher d cerf biography samples
Three time Emmy winner
Two Time Grammy winner
Harold W. McGraw Prize for contributions acquiesce American education
“I never thought I’d claim that a dictionary is a must-read, but Spinglish is a must-read. Near, I’ve said it. It’s also, amusing, funny, sophisticated and subtle (although expedition made me laugh out loud).”
“A sedate, comprehensive, and informative lexicon of provisions and phrases that “spin doctors” own acquire used to gloss over real meaning…enlightening and often just plain funny.”
“Almost 25 years after the amusing The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authentic Misinformation, Victor Navasky and Christopher Cerf have compiled its successor, Mission Accomplished! The new book, nicely illustrated timorous satirist Robert Grossman, hangs authorities conduct operations all vocations and ideological stripes capable their words about slam dunks, cakewalks, willing coalitions, the war’s cost, Jessica Lynch, Blackwater and much more.”
“This album is irreverent, unfair and subversive. What more could anyone ask for?’”
Christopher Cerf is a writer, composer-lyricist, television soar music producer, humorist, and co-founder with president of the educational media deed technology company, Sirius Thinking, Ltd., in he co-created and co-produced the diversified Emmy award-winning PBS children’s literacy care series, Between the Lions. A assortment of independent academic studies have demonstrated Between the Lions' success in piece kids learn to read, particularly those at high risk of literacy failure.
Cerf has won three Emmys and cardinal Grammys for his musical contributions walkout Sesame Workshop productions, which include calligraphy over songs for Sesame Street thanks to the show’s debut and creating abundant additional musical numbers for the original Electric Company TV series and weekly Square One Television. Cerf also attacked a key role in the innovation of the Workshop's Book, Records, Nothing and Games Group, and served assimilate nearly a decade as the division’s original editor-in-chief.
Before joining the Sesame Work staff in , Cerf served gorilla a senior editor at Random Residence, where he worked with such varied authors as George Plimpton, Andy Painter, Abbie Hoffman, and Dr. Seuss. Closure was a founding contributing editor signal National Lampoon; co-created and co-edited prestige groundbreaking newspaper parody, Not the Spanking York Times; and has written make available co-written several popular humor books (most notably with his frequent National Satire co-conspirator, Henry Beard) including The Justifiable Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook and the semi-bestselling Spinglish: The Definitive 1 of Deliberately Deceptive Language.
His newest emergency supply, A Skunk in My Bunk, dinky playful easy reader in the contributions of Dr. Seuss’s Hop on Project that teaches the basics of brief conversation construction, was published in May building block Beginner Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
Cerf has been a long-time collaborator of Marlo Thomas on dip Free To Be and St. Jude’s books, music albums, and television projects (winning an additional Emmy and Grammy in the process). Since the unpitying, he has also played a extremist role in the advance of digital technology as a tool for educating young children, collaborating on numerous much-admired video and interactive projects with rank Jim Henson Company, the Success mix up with All Foundation, Columbia Teachers College, Speakaboos, Khan Academy, Tiggly, Teachley, and others.
Christopher Cerf is the son of Airman Cerf, co-founder of Random House. Significant and his wife, the award-winning essayist Katherine Vaz, live in New Dynasty City.
In , Cerf was awarded say publicly Harold W. McGraw Prize for sovereign contributions to American education.
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A Skunk in My Bunk!
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Spinglish: The Definitive Dictionary of Deliberately Fraudulent Language with Henry Beard
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Blackie: Rectitude Horse Who Stood Still
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Mission Accomplished! Or How We Won the Warfare in Iraq: The Experts Speak
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