Lisa Henson and Emma Walton Hamilton met only recently, but they have something rare in common: each has a parent who likely held a deep, enchanted place in your childhood. Henson, who is fifty-six, is the oldest daughter of Jim Henson, the creator of “Sesame Street” and the Muppets; she is now the C.E.O. of the Jim Henson Company.
Category: The Muppet Show
Books for Kids: I am Jim Henson
Cover illustration, by Christopher Eliopoulos, for I am Jim Henson, by Brad Meltzer, part of the Ordinary People Change the World series of picture-book biographies, published by Dial Books. You know you’re in for a treat when the first text you see is on the inside front endpaper, in voice balloons hovering over a small illustration of Statler and Waldorf, two elderly hecklers from The Muppet Show.