Look, up in the sky! It’s a . . . well, it’s a superpowered word-loving girl.
This Friday, November 23, 2007, America’s PBS public broadcasters will air a two-hour marathon of their new children’s vocabulary TV show Word Girl (check your local listings).
I’ve never seen the animated show, but the bits on the Web site are very entertaining and probably educational for elementary school children. The creators show that language is fun. The television series also offers the introduction and reinforcement of four vocabulary words per episode.
I put this post in the Humor category as well as Language because some of the animated shorts on the site made me laugh, as when the narrator explains that Word Girl arrived on Earth when her monkey crashed their space ship. The narrator then goes into great detail about how monkey piloting is a very bad idea until Word Girl, breaking the fourth wall, makes him stop (in the first Huggy’s House of Fun Freeze Frame).
If your kids are in America and are no longer drowsy from Thanksgiving turkey by Friday, have them take a look.