This week’s minorities in cartoons entry is “WordGirl,” an educational series that ran on PBS Kids from 2006 to 2015. The series stars WordGirl, a grade-school-aged superhero, and promotes strong vocabulary skills.
Read more
Tag: educational
Educational cartoons about money
Money’s a fundamental driving point of many cartoons, from supervillains robbing banks to characters worrying about their livelihoods. However, some educational[…]
Read more
Minorities in cartoons: “Ready Jet Go!”
This week’s minorities in cartoons entry is “Ready Jet Go!,” a PBS animated series that debuted in January 2016 online,[…]
Read more
Minorities in cartoons: Ramone
This week’s minorities in cartoons entry is Ramone, a supporting character on the PBS Kids’ cartoon series “Peg + Cat.”[…]
Read more
Minorities in cartoons: “Oh Noah!”
This week’s minorities in cartoons entry is “Oh Noah!,” a series of educational shorts that air on PBS’ children’s lineup.[…]
Read more
“Peg + Cat”: A new PBS Kids cartoon about math (and ukuleles)
This week, PBS Kids debuted a new cartoon, “Peg + Cat” (pronounced “Peg plus Cat”), a show aimed teaching basic[…]
Read more
Minorities in comics and animation: “Maya & Miguel”
This week’s entry is “Maya & Miguel,” a mid-2000s PBS Kids series about a grade-school-aged pair of Latino fraternal twins.[…]
Read more Garfield tackles cyberbullying
Bullying, especially cyberbullying, has been in the news a lot lately, with reports about an unfortunate recent spate of suicides[…]
Read more