Weekdays at 7 am and 5 p.m.
Sundays at 6:30 a.m.
A charismatic
sloth named Snook and his animal friends give kids a positive sense
of the world.
Welcome to It’s a Big Big World, an innovative
preschool series from Mitchell Kriegman (creator of Bear in
the Big Blue House and Clarissa Explains It All).
Venture deep into the rain forest, high atop the world, to the tallest
tree — World Tree — home to a diverse group of animals
and the show’s metaphor for the world as a whole.
Snook, an energetic giant tree sloth, is your host and guide in
this new world. His friends include a menagerie of characters:
- Smooch and Winslow, two rambunctious marmoset siblings
- Wartz, an eager-to-please singing tree frog
- Madge, an ancient she-turtle with the map of the world on her
back
- Burdette, a bird who thinks she knows it all
- Bob, an anteater who has a complicated relationship with ants
- Ick, a braggart fish
- Oko, an old monkey trickster
As they accompany Snook and his pals on adventures and investigations
in the World Tree, kids will experience science not as just a collection
of facts, but as an exciting process of discovery.
The World Tree is also full of music. With dance rhythms from around
the world set to the beat of indigenous percussion, the original
songs featured in each episode are distinctive, while remaining
the kind of catchy, familiar and warm music to which children and
grownups love to sing along.
Educational Philosophy
The goal of this program is to use engaging characters and compelling
stories to captivate children with life science and geography
content. The show’s guiding educational principle is that
science isn’t a bunch of facts but a process of discovery.
Through the series, children learn that there is a lot they can
discover about science, animals, geography and the big, big world
around them.
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