Pinkalicious & Peterrific

A five-part series about how youngsters learn to read follows development from early awareness of letters through reading for meaning.

Robotic look-alikes record the behaviour of animals in the wild, including orangutans and sloths.

Animated adventures of a girl who travels, makes new friends and helps them solve problems, incorporating storytelling with global awareness, science and vocabulary development.

An inventive cartoon for preschoolers that features spelling lessons built around funny adventures involving animals, buildings and objects created from the letters that spell them.

The second TV cartoon series based on the children's books by Stan and Jan Berenstain, The Berenstain Bears was co-produced by PBS and the Canadian animation firm Nelvana. Once again, the setting was Beartown, a busy community in a most suburban-looking forest, where the Berenstain Bear family -- Papa, Mama, Brother, and Sister -- lived in a fashionable hollow tree. Based on the original stories, the 15-minute segments emphasized pro-social values in an entertaining, easy-to-take fashion. This version of The Berenstain Bears made its American public TV bow on January 6, 2003. From Nelvana.

Children's writer Norman Bridwell's huge crimson canine and his human and animal friends come to animated life on happily diverse Birdwell Island, where good times and good friendships are always the order of the day (as are lessons in life for children ages 3 to 7).