A certain word is about to enter the everyday lexicon of parents whose preschoolers watch public TV. Say it once with a New Age-y, echoey inflection, and then many times, loudly, in rapid succession: ...
A new Winnie-the-Pooh character? Neither. But those two silly-sounding syllables just may form one of the most important new words learned this year by parents of preschool children. Boohbah is the ...
NEW YORK -- With "Boohbah," beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. But for grown-ups exposed to it, this new PBS kids show might seem beautiful in the same hypnotic way as a druggy midnight screening ...
NPR's Michele Norris talks with Anne Wood, the creator of the new children's television series Boohbah. Wood is also the creative force behind Teletubbies, and says her new show is designed to get ...
The recent death of Bob Keeshan reminded lots of people that the power of what you watch on TV as a child extends beyond mere nostalgia. Keeshan’s character, Captain Kangaroo, like Fred Rogers’ Mister ...
Children are deeply weird people, and it takes a deeply weird adult to make TV for them. Fortunately for us, and for them, Anne Wood is just that weird. Wood, 65, is the pink-haired Englishwoman who ...
WHEN she introduced four podgy, TV-obsessed characters with no discernible language skills to Britain’s toddlers in 1996, there was a storm of controversy. Her creation, the children’s television hit ...
From the creators of the award-winning Teletubbies, this series promotes activity and creativity among children ages 2-6. It is intended to foster a style of active viewing in which the things that ...
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