She gathered celebrities like playwright Herb Gardner, actor Mel Brooks, poet Shel Silverstein, Academy Award-winning playwright Paddy Chayefsky and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ed Kleban. She used her connections to realize this vision. Thomas had grown up in a show business family and was fresh off a successful run in the sitcom That Girl. And that's when I decided that I wanted to create a project for children that said that they were free to be anything they wanted to be." What would you like to have heard as a kid? "The prince is gonna come along and kiss her and the whole world's gonna be OK? I mean, it took us years to get over that. "I said to my sister, these books are so old fashioned," remembers Thomas. Actor Marlo Thomas discovered that reading a bedtime story to her 5-year-old niece. But 1972, that wasn't the message kids were getting.
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