NEW YORK, Jan. 8 30 million Americans in the U.S. arefunctionally illiterate and their children are two times more likely thanaverage to grow up illiterate(1). The need for additional tools to ...

WordWorld, the production company behind a three-time Emmy-winning children's public television show that helps pre-schoolers learn to read, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Feb. 10. The move is ...

THE food-loving pink pig, brainy green frog and cute brown dog who populate the new PBS show “WordWorld” might look like normal kids’ television characters at a glance, but on close inspection you’ll ...

Series casts spell on partners With an unusual head start, "WordWorld," a new PBS preschool show funded in large part by a multimillion-dollar grant from the Department of Education, lined up several ...

WordWorld is an Emmy-award-winning animated TV series that helps 3- to 5-year-olds develop early literacy skills. A new study, funded by the Department of Education, found that watching it for just 15 ...

CANNES: The CGI multimedia property WordWorld is to begin airing on Discovery Kids in Latin America in July 2010. Each episode of WordWorld builds a story around a group of WordFriends who are made up ...

Don Moody, creator of the three-time Emmy-winning TV series WordWorld, has debuted the company's latest eBook for preschoolers. It's the latest in a series that stars the cast of WordFriends and the ...

MIPCOM NEWS: PBS Kids’ educational CGI-animated preschool series WordWorld has been sold to public broadcaster France Télévisions. The show will air on France 5, with the pubcaster’s distribution arm, ...

MUNICH/LONDON: TV-Loonland has taken on the rights for the preschool series WordWorld across TV, home entertainment and new media for Western and Eastern Europe, including Russia, Africa and South ...

NEW YORK, Dec. 11 A U.S. Department of Education fundedstudy found that WordWorld, an Emmy(R) winning PBS KIDS series, significantlystrengthens early literacy skills in preschoolers, providing the ...