"I'd be singing 'I'm going to fall down,' singing about what I was having for lunch, about how mean my brothers were."
"I used to run around singing my life to myself," she recalled. But we found that kids responded well to having music at the center of everything," with characters singing rather than simply speaking their parts.īrown Johnson, Nickelodeon's executive creative director for preschool television, said she believes operetta is an art form particularly suited to children. "Usually you have dialogue, which then stops and you have a song. "We wanted to find a way to have the music drive the show," Mr. Selig's previous efforts and "The Wonder Pets," however, is the music. The animation of "Wonder Pets," described by the cable channel as a unique form of "photo-puppetry animation," resembles a sleeker version of the construction-paper-like cutouts of "South Park." The real difference between Mr. Selig also created "Oobi," a show whose principal characters are bare-hand puppets, for Noggin, Nickelodeon's commercial-free educational channel, and "Piper O'Possum" for Nick Jr. Formerly a writer for "Sesame Street" and head writer for "Little Bill," which is seen on Nick Jr., Mr. The show was created by Josh Selig, 41, who is also the executive producer through his company, Little Airplane Productions. Together, they respond to calls for help from animals - real ones, like dolphins, elephants and pigeons, and less so, like unicorns and dinosaurs - who find themselves bedeviled by the world around them. "The Wonder Pets" chronicles the adventures of Linny, a fearless guinea pig Tuck, a sensitive young turtle and Ming-Ming, an overconfident duckling.
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Or rather a series of operettas, for that is probably the best description of "The Wonder Pets," a new animated television series for preschoolers that began this month as part of Nickelodeon's daily Nick Jr. So it was perhaps only a matter of time before someone wrote an opera about them. An entire library of children's literature could be built around the secret life of classroom pets, those ubiquitous frogs, turtles, gerbils and other creatures that must wonder at the cyclical comings and goings of the giant beings who linger outside their glassed-in worlds.
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