Sesame Street
one of the most popular and admired television programmes for young children, made in the US and also shown in the UK and other countries. It teaches children about numbers, letters etc in an amusing way, and it also deals with social questions such as
racism and attitudes to people who are
disabled. The characters who appear in the programme include
Big Bird,
Kermit the Frog,Oscar the Grouch, and the
Cookie Monster.