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WonderWorks is a U.S. children's anthology television series which ran from 1984 to 1992 for eight years. Produced by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) along with Walt Disney Home Video purchased the home video rights to the series in 1987 and was responsible for making the series available to the public on VHS and later DVD in addition to airing some of the programs on the Disney Channel.
Wonder Works is a children's museum, a non-profit corporation established in 2002, located in the village of Oak Park, Illinois. [1] It is the successor to the Children's Museum of Oak Park, established in 1993.
How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days is a 1984 American television family comedy film directed by Joan Micklin Silver and written by Bruce Harmon, based on the 1982 children's book Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days! by Stephen Manes. It stars Wallace Shawn, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, and Hermione Gingold.
Wonder Works or WonderWorks may also refer to: WonderWorks , a PBS children's TV show WonderWorks (museum) , a series of family entertainment centers in the USA
The movie was made by Wonderworks, a PBS family series, and tells the story of Rodia and Daniel, a delinquent neighborhood boy who learns valuable lessons from Rodia. The film is part true and part fiction. The pair come to know each other after Rodia discovers that Daniel had been using Rodia's ceramic pots for target practice.
Picture books are aimed at young children. Many are written with vocabulary a child can understand but not necessarily read. For this reason, picture books tend to have two functions in the lives of children: they are first read to young children by adults, and then children read them themselves once they begin learning to read.
The book has been described as a blend of fiction, memoir, poetry and Inuit folklore. Characterized by the publisher as magic realism, it has also been seen as an example of Daniel Heath Justice's critical concept of "wonderworks" or literature by Indigenous writers that defies conventional Western notions of literary genres.
Bridge to Terabithia is a 1985 Canadian made-for-television fantasy drama film produced for the PBS series WonderWorks, starring Annette O'Toole, Julian Coutts, and Julie Beaulieu. It was shot in Edmonton, Alberta. It is based on the 1977 children's novel of the same name by Katherine Paterson.