Praise for Sunny Days: The Children’s Television Revolution That Changed America

“Sunny Days is a splendid, clever, inspiring, and strangely suspenseful history of the revolution in children’s television that was Sesame Street. . . . This book, just like its subject, is a tonic and an education, and casts a bright light of hope during these dark times.”

—Elizabeth Gilbert

“These shows changed generations of children’s lives, mine included. Kamp has told an inspiring story, powered by love and grace.”

—Morgan Neville, Oscar-winning director of Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

“A sublime book about a variety of creative people coming together not in the pursuit of fame or money, but to enrich the lives of children.”

—The Los Angeles Times

“[A] lively and bewitching recounting of a particularly ripe period in television and cultural history.”

—The New York Times Book Review

Some favorite articles

“American Communion,” Vanity Fair, October 2004

“The Original Brooklyn Selfie King,” The New Yorker, October 2025

“Sly Stone’s Higher Power,” Vanity Fair, July 2007