Uploaded June 2011 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Between the Lions, co-produced with WGBH-TV in Boston, was a children’s literacy initiative that included a daily television show, a website, and print and multimedia components. It premiered on PBS in 2000, and starred a pair of lions who live in and run an enchanted library. The show was co-produced by Christopher Cerf ’63, as part of Sirius Thinking Ltd., the media company he launched with three partners, including Michael Frith ’63, in 1995.
Cerf wrote songs for the show, which won ten Emmys over the course of its run. “Sesame Street targets preschoolers, three- to five-year-olds, and early fives,” Cerf said, about the show. “Lions’ sweet spot is pre-kindergarten to first grade: four- to seven-year-olds.”
Read more:
harvardmagazine.com/2011/06/channel-cerfing
Between the Lions Early Reading Collection:
mass.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/btl07-ex
Between the Lions, co-produced with WGBH-TV in Boston, was a children’s literacy initiative that included a daily television show, a website, and print and multimedia components. It premiered on PBS in 2000, and starred a pair of lions who live in and run an enchanted library. The show was co-produced by Christopher Cerf ’63, as part of Sirius Thinking Ltd., the media company he launched with three partners, including Michael Frith ’63, in 1995.
Cerf wrote songs for the show, which won ten Emmys over the course of its run. “Sesame Street targets preschoolers, three- to five-year-olds, and early fives,” Cerf said, about the show. “Lions’ sweet spot is pre-kindergarten to first grade: four- to seven-year-olds.”
Read more:
harvardmagazine.com/2011/06/channel-cerfing
Between the Lions Early Reading Collection:
mass.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/btl07-ex
