MEET Lesley and Sammy Snail
Creator Lesley Smith, has inspired over a million children in loving choices as a National Foundation for the Arts touring artist beginning in 1994. A world class ventriloquist, puppeteer and musician, Lesley and Sammy continue to teach solutions for difficult problems (bully and violence prevention, nutrition and environmental education).
"The emotion and life Lesley Smith's puppets exude is something even adults can relish!" - The Boston Globe
"The emotion and life Lesley Smith's puppets exude is something even adults can relish!" - The Boston Globe
a commodity for Good
Sammy's New World is a heart-based children's entertainment brand. The mission is to entertain while empowering children and their families to create a more peaceful world through love and respect of oneself, each other and the living earth.
"Sammy" is entertainment first and foremost, starring a funny "do-gooder" of a snail.
Sammy’s New World is a high production digital experiences to be delivered globally through an innovative platform. The Sammy real-world experience will be expanded through live interviews, performances and appearances on the world-wide circuit with our partner organizations as an entertaining "spokeschild" for a loving and peaceful world.
"A critical need now exists to teach children respect for our environment; the kind of respect that is born first of respect for themselves. Lesley Smith (and Sammy) has the rare and brilliant talent needed to carry this timely message to our children." - Steve Curwood, Executive Producer, "Living on Earth", Public Radio International
"Sammy" is entertainment first and foremost, starring a funny "do-gooder" of a snail.
Sammy’s New World is a high production digital experiences to be delivered globally through an innovative platform. The Sammy real-world experience will be expanded through live interviews, performances and appearances on the world-wide circuit with our partner organizations as an entertaining "spokeschild" for a loving and peaceful world.
"A critical need now exists to teach children respect for our environment; the kind of respect that is born first of respect for themselves. Lesley Smith (and Sammy) has the rare and brilliant talent needed to carry this timely message to our children." - Steve Curwood, Executive Producer, "Living on Earth", Public Radio International
Meet The characters - Reel
ACTING LOCALLY, THINKING GLOBALLY
Super heart-powered Sammy travels the country from elementary school assemblies in Santa Barbara CA to middle-school assemblies in Whiteville, South Carolina; and from the Apache Nation preschoolers in Arizona to a Puppet Pajama Party in Newburyport MA. Whether Sammy is in hospitals, schools or theaters the message is the still the same "it's how love grows".
"I love you Sammy. Very, very, very much. I do." - Michelle, Age 5 New York, NY
"I love you Sammy. Very, very, very much. I do." - Michelle, Age 5 New York, NY