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SAG Life Achievement Award Recipient Lily
Tomlin
reads for SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s literacy initiative Storyline
Online
LOS ANGELES (January
25, 2017) – Lily
Tomlin, the 2017 SAG Life Achievement Award recipient, has added
another title to her list of accolades – children’s literacy
advocate. The SAG-AFTRA
Foundation’s children’s literacy program Storyline
Online (storylineonline.net),
sponsored by the Entertainment Industry Foundation, has released
its newest video featuring the five-time Emmy Award winning
actress, producer, and singer reading Hey,
That’s My Monster (https://youtu.be/Hh-ju18EoG0),
written by Amanda Noll and illustrated by Howard McWilliam.
Storyline Online streams free videos featuring acclaimed actors
including Kevin Costner, Allison Janney, Christian Slater, Ed
O’Neill and Mary Steenburgen reading children's books alongside
inventively animated, original illustrations. With over 12
million views every month, Storyline Online has brought the love
of reading to hundreds of millions of children, and is available
24 hours a day at no cost to children, parents, and educators
worldwide. Each video comes with supplemental curriculum for
both home and school, aimed at strengthening verbal, written and
comprehension skills in children grades K-5th grades.
The sequel to Scholastic Book Club Selection I
Need My Monster, Hey, That’s My Monster tells
the story of Ethan and Emma – two young siblings who bond over
their experience dealing with the world of monsters residing
under their beds. The Storyline Online video library also
includes Noll’s original I
Need My Monster (https://youtu.be/QwCxW7Nx4Ec),
read by 2014 SAG Life Achievement Award recipient Rita Moreno,
with almost 8 million views.
“We are incredibly grateful to Lily Tomlin for donating her time
and talent to Storyline Online. Her reading of this colorful
book is going to be watched by millions of children in
classrooms and homes all over the world,” said Cyd Wilson,
Executive Director of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation. “Lily’s love of
story and character shines through when you watch her bring
these children and monsters to life though her animated voicing
and narration. We just added one of the most talented performers
of our time to the Storyline Online library and we couldn’t be
more excited to release this video just in time for the SAG
Awards."
At the 23rd Annual
Screen Actors Guild Awards on January 29, Lily Tomlin will
become the 53rd recipient
of the SAG Life Achievement Award, which honors acclaimed
performers for encouraging the exemplary values of the acting
profession. With Hey,
That’s My Monster, Lily joins fellow SAG Life
Achievement Award recipients Rita Moreno, Ernest Borgnine, Betty
White and James Earl Jones on Storyline Online’s growing list of
readers. The SAG-AFTRA Foundation is the benefiting charity of
the annual SAG Awards. Proceeds from the annual show and auction
series support
the Foundation’s programs including Storyline Online.
To watch Lily Tomlin read Hey,
That’s My Monster and
to view all of the Storyline Online videos, visit storylineonline.net,
Several new videos will be released in 2017. Keep up with the
new releases by subscribing to the Storyline Online YouTube
Channel at youtube.com/storylineonline and
following @StorylineOnline on
Twitter and /StorylineOnline on
Facebook.
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