Sid The Science Kid: Everybody Move Your Feet! Celebrates National Physical Fitness And Sports Month

Online, May 6, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Los Angeles, CA (May 3, 2010): Sid the Science Kid™: Everybody, Move Your Feet!, based on the PBS KIDS® Emmy-nominated television show, Sid the Science Kid from The Jim Henson Company and KCET/Los Angeles, is on sale May 11, 2010 from HarperCollins Children's Books.

May is National Physical Fitness and Sports Month, and Sid the Science Kid™: Everybody, Move Your Feet! is a great way for parents and caregivers to help kids celebrate. When Sid decides to sit and watch television all weekend long, he learns that there is just one problem with his plan: sitting around and not moving would make his body feel terrible. At school Sid and his friends learn that exercising is a really fun way to stay healthy and it makes your body feel great! Sid the Science Kid™: Everybody, Move Your Feet! retails for $5.99 (ISBN 0061852643) and is a part of HarperCollins Let's-Read-And-Find-Out Science® collection, introducing basic science concepts to young children to help satisfy their curiosity about how the world works.

According to Melissa Johnson, executive director of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, which started National Physical Activity and Sports Month in 1983, "Americans of all ages need to incorporate more movement into their daily lives. Children need at least 60 minutes of daily active play. They need to run, climb, jump, and just get up and move around, away from their desks, the television and computer games."

Sid the Science Kid is created for 3-6-year-old children. The television series, which airs in the U.S. on PBS KIDS® has garnered several accolades including two Daytime Emmy Award nominations, Common Sense Media's Best 2008 series for children 4-years old, and is a Parents' Choice 2009 Recommended Award Winner. Developed to inspire a lifelong curiosity and love for learning in young children, Sid the Science Kid appeals to preschoolers' instinctive quest to figure out how things work, using humor and music as key teaching tools. Sid, the show's energetic and inquisitive "star," starts each episode with a new question and embarks on a fun-filled day of finding answers, inspiring preschoolers at home to think about how to find answers to their own questions. The conceptual content of Sid the Science Kid is based in national science learning standards, cognitive learning theory, and on the preschool science curriculum, Preschool Pathways to Science (PrePS™).

Parents and their children can enjoy and explore and learn activity about exercise at the Sid the Science Kid Super Fab Lab.