Global Wonders: Around The World

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Product Description Welcome to Global Wonders! A delightful new series introducing your child to the vibrant and varied cultures from around the neighborhood and around the world. Dazzling animation meets fascinating live action footage in a world where cultures are shared, compared and discovered.In Global Wonders Around the World join all of our families and friends for a fun day at the park. Through fun group activities you will discover new customs, music, languages, and lifestyles from around the world. Build a Blarney sand Castle with Brianna, sing happy birthday in Spanish with Marisa, taste Japanese Karaage with Rina, and play the ney with Amir. When Lorenzo's World Cup soccer ball goes missing, team up with all your new friends on a ball hunt to save the day.With Global Wonders, your child can gain a broader understanding of themselves and the world around them, fostering a stronger self-identity, increased self-esteem, and improved cultural and social skills.Global Wonders was created by Rashmi Turner, a working mother and the former Executive Producer for Disney's Baby Einstein Company. The Global Wonders DVD series includes new animation, music, and stories written and performed by Emmy award winning leaders in children s entertainment including:¶ ¶ Sindy McKay Writer: A two-time Emmy winner including 2006 Outstanding Animated Program for her work on Jakers! , and whose work includes Clifford The Big Red Dog. Ed Wexler Animation Director, Character Designer, Art Director: An Emmy-nominated, 20-year veteran of Walt Disney Animation ( Little Einsteins, My Friends Tigger and Pooh ).¶ Jim Latham Music Composer: Emmy winner whose work includes original songs, themes and underscore for children's programming ( JoJo s Circus, Dragon Tales, Disney Princess: A Christmas of Enchantment ).Among the expert contributors to the Global Wonders brand is developmental expert and educational advisor J. Kevin Nugent, Ph.D., founder and director of the Brazelton Institute at Children s Hospital in Boston and faculty member of Harvard Medical School in the Department of Pediatrics. Review As the world grows smaller -- and children grow smarter -- along comes Global Wonders, a warm and delightful new series that joyfully invites kids to open the door to the glorious diversity of our international family. Colorfully animated, cleverly scripted and crammed with live-action clips that depict the rich tapestry of our shared world culture, Global Wonders is destined to take its place among the best and brightest of children's entertainment. I love this series! --Bruce Kluger - Parenting MagazineThe Global Wonders DVD series is one of the better new introductions I have seen all year. Highly engaging through the entire program with colorful, high quality animation. Receives an overall product grade of A and the TTT mark of excellence indicating that a product has been triple tested by trained researchers, educators, parents and children. A toy with a TTTrating means that it exceeds our standards and has been rated to deliver a fun play experience that also stimulates developmental learning skills. --Marianne Szymanski - Toy Tips Magazine and The Toy Research InstituteGlobal Wonders: Around the Worlddemonstrates in an elegant and exciting manner how cross-cultural exchanges that are spontaneous, play-based and informal, can deepen the child's knowledge of different cultures and promote friendship between children - and their families - from different cultures. While open spaces may make up a developmentally rich landscape, when this space is filled with the kind of exciting child activities portrayed in Global Wonders: Around the World, it surely is as developmentally satisfying a learning experience fo the growing child as one could imagine. --Dr. J.K. Nugent, Child Development Expert. Founder, Brazelton Institute, Childrens Hospital, Boston and Harvard Medical School