NJN to Air New Children’s PBS Series It’s a Big Big World
Weekdays at 8:30 am starting Monday, January 2nd

STATEWIDE - This winter NJN welcomes its newest children’s series It’s a Big Big World, an innovative preschool series from Emmy and Parents Choice award-winning writer and creator Mitchell Kriegman - Bear in the Big Blue House, Clarissa Explains it All, Book of Pooh, Doug, Saturday Night Live, etc. Venture deep into the rainforest, high atop the world, to the tallest tree – the World Tree – home to a diverse group of animals and the show’s metaphor for the world as a whole. It’s a Big Big World airs weekday mornings at 8:30 am starting Monday, January 2. This half-hour program can be seen on cable stations throughout New Jersey as well as on Time Warner Cable on channel 750 in New York. Closed-captioning is provided.

Snook, an energetic giant tree sloth is the show’s host and guide through this new world. His friends include: 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 the Anteater, who has a complicated relationship with the ants; Ick, a braggart fish; Oko, an old monkey trickster; and more.

As they accompany Snook and his pals on adventures and investigations in the World Tree, kids experience science, not as just a collection of facts, but as an exciting process of discovery. Viewers see characters who are excited about science, who look for answers to the scientific puzzles they encounter and who follow the steps and methods of scientific investigation.

Through the stories of individual characters, kids learn about different animals – how they live, grow and change. The series also introduces children to geography, providing them with a basic understanding that the world is bigger than their immediate surroundings and a sense that they are an important part of a larger community.

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 hugely distinctive, while remaining the kind of catchy, familiar and warm music that kids and their parents love to sing along to.