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Children's Writer
Louise Gikow is an Emmy award-winning author/composer. She has published a number of books with The Jim Henson Company for several properties including: Muppet Babies, Fraggle Rock and The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss. For television, she has written for the US/Israeli co-production Shalom Sesame, and the Sesame Workshop/Berlitz International co-production Sesame English. She has also written for Between the Lions. Louise is also the co-creator of Johnny and the Sprites. As a composer, she has written music and lyrics for the Sing Along with Kermit and Friends series of book and tape sets. As part of Sesame Street’s 40th Anniversary Celebration in 2009, Louise wrote and edited Sesame Street: A Celebration - 40 Years of Life on the Street.
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Resources
1. The Jim Henson Company: www.henson.com
2. New York Women in Film & Television: www.nywift.org
3. National Writers Union: www.nwu.org
4. Women in Children's Media: www.womeninchildrensmedia.org
5. More about Louise Gikow on ToughPigs.com: http://toughpigs.com/2009/10/chat-with-louise-gikow-part-2.html
About Louise Gikow
Louise Gikow is a writer who has published a number of books with The Jim Henson Company for several properties including Muppet Babies, Fraggle Rock and The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss. For television, Gikow has written for the US/Israeli co-production Shalom Sesame, and the Sesame Workshop/Berlitz International co-production Sesame English. She has also written for Between the Lions (for which she won an Emmy in 2009) and is the co-creator of Johnny and the Sprites (with John Tartaglia).
Gikow has adapted several Henson productions into storybook form, including Labyrinth, The Tale of the Bunny Picnic, and The Muppet Christmas Carol. Several of her Muppet Babies books have also been adapted as storybook videos. As a composer, she has written music and lyrics for the Sing Along with Kermit and Friends series of book and tape sets. In 1986, she served as a script consultant on Muppet Babies Live! Several of these books were written under the pseudonyms "Emily Paul" and "Rebecca Grand."
During the 1980s, she served as senior editor for Muppet Magazine and wrote several articles and comics including the recurring "Miss Piggy's Advice" column. In 1993, she authored a biography of Jim Henson called Meet Jim Henson. Also in the 1990s, she co-authored The Muppets Make Puppets! with Cheryl Henson and the Muppet Workshop, Miss Piggy's Rules with Jim Lewis, For Every Child, A Better World with Ellen Weiss and two large-format children's stories adaptations featuring poser puppets of the Muppet Babies, Muppet Babies' Classic Children's Tales and Muppet Babies' Classic Nursery Rhymes.
As part of Sesame Street’s 40th Anniversary Celebration in 2009, Gikow wrote and edited Sesame Street: A Celebration - 40 Years of Life on the Street.
From www.Muppet.Wikia.com: http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Louise_Gikow
News Anchor/Reporter
Julie Tam is a news anchor for FOX News at WDRB-TV FOX 41 in Louisville, KY. She has been nominated for an Emmy and won several Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists awards. Julie was formerly a reporter at KLTV-TV ABC 7 in Tyler, TX; she was producer at News 24 in Houston; host and producer at PBS Houston; and intern at the ABC and WB stations in Houston.
Click below to listen to 10 minute interview.
Resources
1. About Julie Tam: www.julietam.com
2. TV Jobs: www.tvjobs.com
3. MediaLine: www.medialine.com
4. TV Spy: www.tvspy.com
5. Medill at Northwestern University: www.medill.northwestern.edu
6. University of Missouri: www.missouri.edu
7. University of Southern California- Annenberg: www.annenberg.usc.edu
About Julie Tam
Julie Tam joined Fox 41 in September 2005. She anchors FOX News at 10 p.m. on the weekend and reports on weeknights. Julie has been nominated for an Emmy and won several Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists awards. Julie was formerly a reporter at KLTV-TV ABC 7 in Tyler, TX; producer at News 24 Houston; host/producer at PBS Houston; and intern at the ABC and WB stations in Houston. A native of Houston, Julie earned a B.A. in Economics from Rice University. She is fluent in four languages -- English, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese -- and has traveled throughout the country and the world to more than 15 countries on four continents. She is also a classical singer and danced with the Houston Ballet Academy for 10 years. Julie has performed and spoken at many community events, serves on the Outreach Committee for Crane House: The Asia Institute, volunteers for Asian American Journalists Association, and interviews local high school students applying to Rice University.