Each Saturday this CBS show – designed to stimulate and encourage reading among children – had four children aged 8 to 12 review and discuss one book. In the debut episode, the book was Peter Freuchen’s Whaling Boy.
The series was based in New York, but participants came from outside the city. Perhaps the most impressive show was in early 1963 when the show went to Washington DC to let Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas talk with children about his 1958 book Exploring the Himalaya.
The host, Ned Hoopes, was an English teacher at Evanston Township High School in Illinois.
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Ned Hoopes
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