This is children's media?!

Wow. I can't believe The Man Who Planted Trees is considered a children's piece. I feel like I was robbed during my childhood! I never watched anything like it before or even knew that it existed.

Which raises an important question: why. Why does this video come to be such a shock to us that it is a children's media piece? I feel like to our culture (and to me before this class) when the phrase "children's media" is spoken we immediately think of SpongeBob and Dora the Explorer.

Wouldn't parents enjoy watching videos with their children a lot more if they had options like The Man Who Planted Trees? I know I would! I could watch hours of this stuff. Dora the Explorer? Not so much.

And it's sad because to production houses which kind of children's media makes more money? Dora and SpongeBob, or The Man Who Planted Trees? Until we can convince them otherwise or make enough good, high quality media Dora the Explorer and SpongeBob will always get top billing.