Between the lions is the award winning pbs series designed to help kids ages 3-7 to learn to read. Its unique formula is based on a detailed and rigorous lieracy cirriculum, developed in extensive and ongoing consultation with reading professionals, and resulting in a lively educational blend of phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, and other teaching methods for preschool, kindergarten and first grade students. Designed to foster the literacy skills of its viewers, while playfully demonstrating the joys of reading, each episode aims to give kids some of the tools they need in order to become successful readers. Animal Stories! joins the cubs as they make friends, learn about pets, face their fears, and more, in eight exciting adventures: Dear Mr. Blueberry & I Wanna Iguana Mole and the Baby Bird & Owen and Mzee Are You a Snail? & Wonderful Worms Trosclair and the Alligator & The Coyote and the Rabbit