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Curious George Games: Tons of Fun

by Sandy Maple, Posted Oct 30th 2009 4:30PM

The Curious George Games website is part of PBS Kids and is a place where fans of the popular "Curious George" books can play educational games as well as print out activity sheets for offline fun. Written by Margret and H.A. Rey, the Curious George ...
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The Electric Company is Back!

by Sandy Maple, Posted Dec 2nd 2008 10:00AM

A few years back, I purchased the DVD collection, The Best of The Electric Company. I bought it for Ellie, but I probably enjoyed watching it more than she did. I loved that show as a child but had forgotten just how clever it really was. Witty and ...
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Coming soon to a television near you...

by Sandy Maple, Posted Sep 29th 2007 1:02PM

I wrote a few days ago about the Jonas Brothers and their new show on Disney. That show sounds exactly like the kind we are trying to avoid in my house, so I am going pretend I never even heard about it. Over at Children's Media Consultant, ...
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Mama raves: my ode to Cyberchase

by Sarah Gilbert, Posted Jan 31st 2006 10:24PM

One of my mama friends with whom I hung out a lot when Everett was one and her sons were three and five swore by Cyberchase, on PBS Kids. Every day at 5 p.m. on the dot, she'd sit her boys down in front of the TV while she cooked dinner. I'm no ...
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PBS Kids casting call: new host for 'multi-platform' media

by Sarah Gilbert, Posted Jan 27th 2006 4:10PM

PBS Kids is undergoing some changes and (it seems) they're paying attention to our input. You all had lots, and lots of complaints about the PBS Kids Sprout, programming carried by DirecTV and some digital cable channels (update: PBS informs me that ...
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It's a Big, Big World on PBS: A little stoned, but nonetheless lovable

by Sarah Gilbert, Posted Jan 4th 2006 5:26PM

There's a new show on PBS Kids, and the verdict, so far: my three-year-old, he likes it. So much so, in fact, that he asked to watch it again once he got to the end of the half-hour. It's a Big, Big World is set in a rainforest, with lots of very ...
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