THE LETTER PEOPLE Complete 14-Disc Set NEAR MINT New Dimensions Inc. 1981 7" 33

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THE LETTER PEOPLE Complete 14-Disc Set NEAR MINT! New Dimensions Inc. Alphabet Childcraft - 1981 7" 33rpm - incredible clean complete set appears absolutely un-played.  Includes the original box. 

Visual Grading -
NM - all discs appear in near flawless clean condition.

The Letter People is a children's  program and the  based on said program. The term also refers to the various characters depicted in the program and television show.
Each letter of the English alphabet is represented by a unique character with traits derived from its letter. The consonants are male, and the vowels are female

 Elayne Reiss-Weimann and Rita Friedman originally created the concept of Letter People as teachers in Nanuet, New York. In 1964, the idea for the Letter People came to first-grade teacher Elayne Reiss-Weimann, who had struggled daily to draw attention of her 24 students (who were typical first graders, eager and rambunctious) in a distraction-fond hallway classroom at an overcrowded school based in Nanuet, New York. Weimann managed to collaborate with an early childhood coordinator, Rita Friedman, to create an educational program that revolved around 26 anthropomorphic characters-- each who represented the letters of the alphabet-- to teach beginning readers how to "decode" or "sound out" the consonants and vowels that form words. They embodied the basic rules of phonics into stories about these make-believe characters called Letter People. Each letter of the alphabet had a distinct characteristic to help children learn not only the letter but the sound the letter represents in the written word. For example, Mr. M has a Munching Mouth, Mr. N has a Noisy Nose, or Mr. T has Tall Teeth. The characters were painted on large, two-dimensional portrait cards. Each character was given an engaging personality to help the teacher bring her or him alive in the classroom, and each character had a song (or a poem at the time) to help children recall the distinguishing feature and sound. With the help of the Letter People, children remained on-task, learned more quickly and retained what they learned. From the beginning, the children viewed the Letter People as real people and not just letters of the alphabet, phonics devices, or toys. On one occasion, when the Letter People had to be shipped to another school, the children insisted that holes be placed in the boxes so that the Letter People could breathe as they traveled.



Weimann and Friedman later sold the idea to New Dimensions in Education, Inc. (based in Plainview, New York and later in Norwalk, Connecticut) which, in turn, copyrighted and published The Letter People educational products in 1968. NDE hired Elizabeth Callen to design the look of the characters in the classroom programs. NDE developed the concept into classroom programs: Alpha One in 1968, and Alpha Time in 1974. In Alpha Time, the two-dimensional portrait card characters were made into three-dimensional, inflatable, child-sized vinyl characters commonly known as "The Huggables" (see Life Magazine, May 12, 1972), which were large enough for small children to hug (though there were smaller-sized Huggables as well). Eventually, Alan J. Pratt, Ph.D., a director and vice-president of NDE, Inc. approached KETC-TV, a PBS affiliate in St. Louis, MO about creating a TV series based on the escapades of the Letter People. After five pilot programs were produced, Dr. Pratt approached the Council of Great City Schools (the 20 largest school districts in the Country.) Eventually, with the cooperation of the superintendents of the Council, NDE, Inc. and KETC-TV a joint venture commenced. The series comprised 60, 15-minute episodes that became extremely popular with children nationwide who were learning to read. To insure phonetic and linguistic accuracy in the television production process, Ruth Lerner from NDE served as the Editorial Supervisor. Alan Pratt, Ph.D. was the Curriculum Consultant for the TV series. Tom McDonough of KETC-TV was writer-director of the television series.
 The program's basic concept was simple: Each letter of the   was represented by a unique character with traits derived from itself. The  were males (as "the Letter Boys"), and the  were females (as "the Letter Girls", whom there could be no word without). Reiss-Weimann, Friedman and Callen also wrote two series of  about the characters, Fables from the Letter Peopleand Read-to-Me. Each Letter Person also had an accompanying song, and inflatable effigies in two sizes (12-14 inches or 30-inch "life-size") known as a "Huggables".

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VISUAL GRADING:
SS (Still Sealed) - Never opened. (I do not believe in grading opened LPs or 45s as "Mint".  A "Mint" record is still sealed.)
NM (Near Mint)  - a near perfect, probably unplayed record.  might be dusty or have a light fingerprint, but has no marks that can be seen.
NM- (Near Mint minus) - absolutely clean with at most a few very superficial marks that have no effect on playback.
VG++ - Super clean and very lightly played.
VG+ (Very Good Plus) - the record shows some signs of having been played, but there is very little deterioration in sound quality.
VG  (Very Good) - a well used copy. There will be obvious signs of wear and the possibility of light surface noise between tracks or during quiet passages.  A VG record may have very small marks that can be felt, but feelable marks will always be specifically noted in my listings)
VG- (Very Good minus)  - significant wear and marks and usually quite noticeable surface noise.  music still dominates over any background noise or pops.
G (good) - still a playable record without jumps or marks that stick, but a record in this condition will have significant surface noise, pops and other distractions.