What is "readalong"

Readalong was an educational, Canadian television program for young children, first produced in 1976 for TVOntario.

The program taught fundamentals of reading with the help of live child actors and puppets, including a comically dressed grandmother figure named Granny and anthropomorphic footwear: a brown, male boot and pink, female shoe named, appropriately, Boot (voiced by Jack Duffy) and Pretty. Other characters were Mister Bones, the Explorer, House, and the Thing.

The program was a marketing hit for TVOntario and had strong international sales lasting many years.

The Granny, Boot, and Pretty puppets are now housed at the Canadian Museum of Civilization. Noreen Young, who designed the puppets, also created puppets for other programs, including Under the Umbrella Tree. The characters were developed by Ken Sobol, who also wrote all the scripts for the series. The show's music was composed by Eric Robertson.