WordWorld

The body of each of the wacky WordFriends is made up of the letters in its name: As they travel through WordWorld, the friends try to find the letters to build the words to solve the problems they meet. Learning to form words has never been this much fun!

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  • J-J-Jelly
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    January 11, 2011

    Pig asks Bear and Sheep to help him make jars for the jelly pumping from his jelly machine. However, when they aren't able to make jars fast enough, the kitchen quickly begins filling up with the purple, oozy treat! Only by working together are the friends able to find a way to contain all of the jiggling jelly.

  • A String's the Thing
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    January 10, 2011

    After Duck accidentally turns on Frog's new cake frosting machine, the WordFriends must find the right ,ing, word to stop it from covering WordWorld in delicious frosting.

  • X Marks the Spot
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    January 7, 2011

    Duck must search high and low for his letter X that has gone missing. His good pal Shark accompanies him. Duck hears the letter X everywhere he goes, but why can't he find it? And why does Shark have a stomachache? Both mysteries are solved when Frog builds an X-ray to look inside Shark's stomach.

  • Think in the Rink
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    January 6, 2011

    Duck and Dog want to join Sheep and Frog in their ice skating show. Although Frog warns Duck and Dog to be careful as they practice, the enthusiastic duo get carried away and carelessly break the ice skating rink. Will Duck and Dog think up a good solution to the problem before the show begins?

  • Sandbox Surprise
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    January 5, 2011

    Duck and Dog become curious about compound words when they discover the word "sandbox" is made of two words. How many words can they pull apart in WordWorld before chaos breaks loose?

  • Race to the Spaceship
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    January 4, 2011

    Frog must help Robot get to the top of WordWorld's highest mountain and build a spaceship in time to play spaceship. By adding one word to another, the WordFriends learn how to make a car, boat and bike go faster.

  • Fire Fighters to the Rescue
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    January 3, 2011

    Duck and Fly want to become firefighters, just like their friend Firefighter Frog. To do that, they need to look out for any signs of smoke in WordWorld, because where there's smoke, there's fire! Will Duck and Fly be able to determine what's really smoke and what's not?

  • Kite Flight
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    December 31, 2010

    When Frog sails away on a big kite he built, it's up to Duck and Shark to save him. Luckily for the WordFriends, Kangaroo comes along just in time to help. Will her knowledge about the letter K rescue Frog and get them all home safely?

  • Hide and Seek
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    December 30, 2010

    The WordFriends play a game of Hide and Seek where they have to hide behind WordThings that end in ,ake., The bugs build a RAKE, and Pig builds a CAKE. But Shark is so big that it's always hard for him to find a good hiding place. Time is running out! What ,ake, word is just right for Shark to build?

  • The Really Red Ruby
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    December 29, 2010

    Frog is excited to accompany Sheep on an exciting adventure to find the Really Red Ruby - until he realizes that Sheep is only pretending to go on an adventure. Frog is disappointed until he makes his greatest discovery: playing pretend is fun!

  • A Christmas Present for Dog
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    December 23, 2009

    It's Christmas morning, and all the WordFriends are excited by the presents Santa has brought for them! Pig has a sled, Bear has a doll, and Ant has a cookie. But not all the letters for Dog's present came down his chimney. All he has is a B-A-L. Bear gets filled with the Christmas spirit and makes a sacrifice to ensure Dog's Christmas will be merry!)

  • Bear's Bed Sled
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    October 2, 2009

    Bear is excited about sledding on the first day of snow, but her plans change when she hurts her toe and is unable to ride her sled. It's up to her friends to come up with a solution that will let Bear stay in bed and go sledding at the same time.

  • Welcome Home, Duck!
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    September 23, 2009

    How can Frog find another way across the water to hang a "Welcome Home" banner over Duck's nest when the dock connecting Frog's log to Duck's nest has broken?

  • Dog's Having a Party
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    September 22, 2009

    Dog and Duck want to throw a house party at Dog's house. But all they have is the letter H, and they don't know what to do with it! Sheep shows them that H is a fabulous letter: with it they can make hotdogs, hats, hula-hoops and a great party indeed. Hurray!

  • Totally Terrific Duck
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    September 21, 2009

    Bear is going to paint everyone's picture today, and Duck wants to look totally terrific for his portrait. Not to worry! Frog and Sheep help him build a tie, top hat and tutu - because if you want to look totally terrific you need the letter T.

  • Bed Bugs
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    September 18, 2009

    When the bugs accidentally break Frog's brand new bed, they scramble to put it back together and make things right. Just one problem. They can't tell the letters 'b' and 'd' apart!

  • The Best Nest
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    September 17, 2009

    It's Duck's turn at show and tell at school, and he wants to bring the thing he loves the best: his nest! But when the nest breaks apart into letters, will Duck be able to retrieve them all in time?

  • You Can Never Have Too Many "OO"s
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    September 16, 2009

    When the two letter O's in Monkey's roof blow away in the wind, it's up to Duck to hunt down the /oo/ sound and fix the roof before it rains. With Kangaroo's help, Duck saves the day...and learns you can never have too many "oo"s.)

  • Duck at Bat
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    September 15, 2009

    Duck loses the letter B to his baseball bat just before the big game is supposed to start. He tries to build other words to hit the ball, like MAT, HAT,but soon learns that you need the right letter with the right sound to build the right word - and hit a homer!

  • Shark's Loose Tooth
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    September 14, 2009

    When Shark loses his first baby tooth at a sleepover party with Duck, he's got to get to sleep fast so the tooth fairy can come and leave him a present. But there's just one problem-he can't fall asleep! With the help of his good friend Duck and the letter P, Shark finally finds just the word he needs to help him fall asleep.)

  • Duck's Hiccups
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    September 14, 2009

    When Duck drinks down a glass of water too quickly, he gets the hiccups for the first time ever! His WordFriends try every trick in the book to help him, but which cure will work?

  • Shark's First Day of School
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    September 11, 2009

    It's the first day of school for the youngest WordFriends, but Shark is afraid to go. With the help of his good buddy Duck, and some gentle encouragement from their teacher Cat, Shark's fear turns to confidence, and by day's end he's at the head of the class.

  • A Choo
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    September 11, 2009

    Pig is allergic to peaches! Too bad Sheep doesn't know that! When she brings Pig a big bag of peaches to make pies, Pig starts sneezing so much that he can't even tell Sheep that what he really needs is a...a...apples.

  • Get Set for 'E T'
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    September 10, 2009

    While sky-writing in his jet, Duck accidentally makes a cloud DRAGON! Thinking it's a real dragon, Duck and the bugs set out to "catch" the dragon and "save" WordWorld. But how do you catch something made from clouds?

  • Sheep's First Bike Ride
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    September 10, 2009

    Bear and Sheep both learn to build the word "bike," and Sheep learns how to ride one.

  • Duck Plays the Piano
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    September 9, 2009

    When Bug, Bee and Fly keep interrupting Duck's piano lesson, Duck learns that some things are worth waiting for. He also learns that when a word has lots of sounds in it, you can build it sound by sound.

  • Bugs to the Rescue
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    September 9, 2009

    Ant builds Bear a hot-air balloon for her birthday, but Dog accidentally floats away in it! Ant asks his insect WordFriends Bug, Bee and Fly to rescue Dog and save the day.

  • Get Well Soon Soup
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    September 8, 2009

    When Ant gets sick, Pig tries to take care of him by making his special Get-Well-Soon Soup. It has all the letters in the alphabet in it, so Pig can build any word that Ant needs to feel better. Pig just has to figure out what that word is!

  • Caterpillar Gets a Home
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    September 8, 2009

    Duck makes a new friend on a windy, rainy day: Caterpillar. It soon becomes apparent that Caterpillar needs a home to protect her from the elements. Together she and Duck learn to sound out some words which might make suitable homes, such as BAG, CAN, and BOX. But which one will be just right?

  • Mmm Mmm Milk
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    September 7, 2009

    When Ant comes over to Pig's house to eat cookies, Pig tries to get him to drink some milk. But Ant doesn't like milk! Or so he thinks...)

  • Duck Saves Spider's Web
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    September 7, 2009

    When Duck accidentally crashes into Spider's web and breaks it apart into letters, he has to go about finding the letters to fix it. But he doesn't know what letters are in the word "web"! With Elephant's help, he learns that sometimes if you can sound out a word, you can figure out what letters you need to build it.

  • Love, Bug
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    February 13, 2009

    Sheep wants to make a special Valentine song for her pal Bear, she has runs into trouble finding just the right rhyme to finish her song. Fly helps her discover the perfect rhyme to make a Valentine song with real heart.

  • My Fuzzy Valentine
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    February 12, 2009

    Bug wants to sign a valentine for his favourite WordFriend, but he doesn't know how to write his name. With encouragement from Frog he learns that with a little practice he can write his name and give his valentine.

  • The Christmas Star
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    December 24, 2008

    It's the night before Christmas and Frog needs a star to hang on his Christmas tree. Duck thinks this will be the perfect present for Frog, and tries to lasso one out of the sky for him. Try as he might, Duck is unable to catch a star for Frog, and cries himself to sleep. But while he sleeps, someone leaves him a wonderful present: the letters S-T-A-R...

  • A Kooky Spooky Halloween
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    October 31, 2008

    The WordFriends get their share of scares the night before Halloween, when Pig sleepwalks and everyone thinks he's a ghost!

  • Sheep's Halloween Costume
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    October 25, 2008

    It's Halloween-Sheep's favorite day of the year. Sheep likes nothing more than to dress up, so she always goes out of her way to make herself a special costume. But what will she do when her WordFriends need pieces of her costume for their own costumes?

  • A Star is Born
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    October 16, 2008

    Duck gets a case of stage fright while singing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" for all his WordFriends. Instead of singing the word "star," Duck freezes and blurts out the first thing he sees. With a little word building, Sheep and Ant solve Duck's problem, and soon a "star" is born.

  • Catch that C!
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    September 9, 2008

    While Pig and Ant are making cookies, their bag of letter Cs gets away from them, sending the WordFriends on a wild goose chase all over WordWorld to catch that C! The bad news is that the letter C is in big demand that day. But the good news is that Pig and Ant have a lot of WordFriends who want to help them out!

  • The Lost Letter L
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    September 8, 2008

    When Duck accidentally breaks the L off Frog's lamp, he decides not to tell Frog. Instead, he'll just fix it himself. Although Bug and Dog try to help, things spiral out of control, and soon Duck has broken a lamp, a lever and even Frog's log!

  • Dancing Duck Bonanza
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    September 5, 2008

    Shark is a great underwater dancer, but when he comes up on land to practise for Duck's show, Shark flops all over the stage like - a fish out of water. But the show must go on!

  • Flying Ant
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    September 4, 2008

    WordWorld is all abuzz for the Insect Air Show! All the bugs take to the sky to show off their flying skills - except for Ant. But with the help of his best pal Pig, Ant finds just the right word to give him the lift he needs to be the hit of the show.

  • Ride 'Em Cowbear
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    September 4, 2008

    Pig, Dog and Duck are playing cowboys. Bear wants to join them, but she's not very good at rope tricks.

  • M is for Map
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    September 3, 2008

    Sheep and Bear are lost in the jungle, and it's almost dark! In their haste to get home before sunset, the WordFriends lose the letters to their map. They have to sound out and hunt down the letters in "map", but with Adventure Sheep leading the way, nothing is ever easy!

  • Back on Track
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    September 3, 2008

    Frog sees through his telescope that Kangaroo's mail train is headed straight for a broken track! He has to rely on Bear and her tiny new tricycle to get him there to fix the track on time. And if the tricycle isn't tiny enough, Dog, Duck, and Ant and all his cousins climb on board to lend a hand. Will they make it in time?

  • Play Ball!
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    September 2, 2008

    The WordFriends play an exciting game of baseball. Robot has never played before. Can he turn into a slugging machine?

  • The Rainbow Birthday Cake
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    September 2, 2008

    When Duck makes Frog a big, beautiful birthday cake he usess lots of cans of frosting and they must be recycled. In WordWorld, recycling means using the letters to make other words!

  • Bit by Bit
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    September 1, 2008

    Frog is sick and he entrusts Duck and Bug to take his present, a banana, to Monkey's birthday party. Duck and Bug accidentally break the banana into letters and they don't know how to rebuild it! It's just too big a word! Fortunately Elephant knows a thing or two about big words, and teaches them to build the banana back, bit by bit.

  • The Race to Mystery Island
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    August 30, 2008

    Pig and Frog race each other to Mystery Island, each building himself several words to thwart his competitor along the way.

  • Wee Little Whale
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    August 23, 2008

    Sheep rescues a tiny whale who is stuck in some seaweed and brings her home to her haystack. They quickly become best of friends, but as Whale gets bigger and bigger, she soon outgrows Sheep's tea cups, bathtubs and pools.

  • Playing Spies
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    August 16, 2008

    Sheep and Duck think that Dog has a secret, they decide to play "spy." They discover Dog wants to build a word with the "oo" sound. But why? Andwill they be caught before they can guess Dog's secret?

  • Superhero Sheep
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    August 9, 2008

    Sheep becomes WordWorld's first superhero, saving the day with the letter "S"! Duck is eager to be her trusty sidekick, but Sheep says "superheroes don't need help" - until she gets stuck on top of Pig's barn.

  • Pirate Ship
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    August 2, 2008

    Sheep, Duck and Shark find a message in a bottle on the beach. It's one of several rhyming clues that will lead them to a special treasure! Like hearty pirates, the trio follows the clues and rhyme their way across the sea - if only they had a ship!

  • Castles in the Sea
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    June 26, 2008

    The body of each of the wacky WordFriends is made up of the letters in its name: As they travel through WordWorld, the friends try to find the letters to build the words to solve the problems they meet. Learning to form words has never been this much fun!

  • Get Your Coat
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    June 25, 2008

    Duck thinks Frog doesn't want to play in the rain because Duck accidentally broke Frog's boat, but the real reason is that Frog doesn't like the rain. Duck learns all about words that end with "oat" before finally coming across a word that will allow Frog to play outside in the rain: a coat!

  • Pigs Present
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    June 24, 2008

    The body of each of the wacky WordFriends is made up of the letters in its name: As they travel through WordWorld, the friends try to find the letters to build the words to solve the problems they meet. Learning to form words has never been this much fun!

  • Tick Tock Space Clock
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    June 23, 2008

    The body of each of the wacky WordFriends is made up of the letters in its name: As they travel through WordWorld, the friends try to find the letters to build the words to solve the problems they meet. Learning to form words has never been this much fun!

  • Mail Mix Up
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    June 20, 2008

    Duck offers to help Kangaroo deliver letters to his WordFriends, but he forgets Kangaroo's instructions and delivers the wrong letters to everyone discovering that there are a lot of words that end "ail" - such as NAIL, PAIL and SAIL - and that they can't be used interchangeably!

  • Radio Read-a-Thon
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    June 19, 2008

    Duck asks Frog to read his favourite book on Ant's radio station because he can't read it himself. But when Frog's tongue gets tangled in knots, Duck realizes that he doesn't need to know how to read to be able to look at pictures and tell a great story.

  • Pl-Pl-Plane
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    April 8, 2008

    Frog and the Bug Band are headed to have some fun on the beach, but not everything goes as Frog had planned.

  • Robots to the Rescue
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    February 1, 2008

    When Frog discovers that you can make a word "more than one" by adding the letter S to the end of it, he becomes a mad scientist of sorts, making more and more of everything!

  • Princess Sheep
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    January 31, 2008

    Bear and Sheep want to play princess, but they only have one crown. Although Sheep promises to take turns wearing the crown and being princess, she gets royally carried away.

  • W Drought
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    January 30, 2008

    It's a hot Summer day and all the Wordfriends are using water to stay cool. But when all the letter Ws start to disappear, Sheep leads the gang in the hunt to discover just who's causing the W drought.

  • Dancing Dog
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    January 28, 2008

    All the WordFriends are gathering to perform in the WordWorld concert, and no one is more excited than Dog. He loves music! But Dog can't play any musical instruments! Or can he?

  • Boppin' with the Bug Band
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    January 25, 2008

    Ant is featuring WordWorld bands on his radio show. Frog has always wanted to be in a band, but can't sing very well. And Bug, Fly and Bee have some really good music, but they need some help with their lyrics. Fortunately, Frog knows all about rhyming!

  • Shuffleword
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    January 24, 2008

    When Pig and Ant get into an argument while playing Shuffleword, Pig storms off with the consonants and Ant storms off with the vowels.

  • Pig's Big Moonlight Feast
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    January 23, 2008

    When Pig is too sick to cook his special Moonlight Feast, his WordFriends Duck and Dog step in to help out. Impetuous Duck doesn't want to follow the recipe and quickly ends up "in the soup." Through rhyming, Dog and Duck learn that a quick change of a letter can turn a fiasco into a feast.

  • One Hat Fits All
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    November 22, 2007

    On a windy day in WordWorld, Sheep loses her magician's hat. The hat winds its way all around, breaking into letters each time it crashes to a halt! Whenever a WordFriend finds it and puts it back together, the hat takes on a fresh, new form.

  • Duck's First Sleepover
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    November 21, 2007

    Duck attends his first sleepover party, but he's nervous about not sleeping in his nest for the first time.

  • Waterlogged
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    September 28, 2007

    Frog must stay with Pig when his Log sinks, but Frog soon wears out his welcome by being a bad houseguest.

  • Pies, Pies, Pies!
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    September 28, 2007

    When Pig promises to make a pie for everyone in WordWorld, he learns a hard lesson about keeping promises. Fortunately, he also learns about the letter S and how it can make words plural.

  • Dog's Camping Adventure
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    September 17, 2007

    Pig and Frog take Dog on his first camping trip. When they lose one of the letters to their TENT, it's Dog who overcomes his fear and finds it in the dark forest...along with a monster!

  • V Is for Vacation
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    September 14, 2007

    The weather is turning colder, and Duck is ready for his yearly vacation (migration). He's not sure, however, how to go. When Bird tells him he just needs to "find the 'V,'" Duck is off and running on what seems, at first, like a wild goose chase.

  • The Mystery of the Disappearing Pie
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    September 14, 2007

    When Pig's pie for Bear goes missing, it's up to Detective Sheep to follow the letter clues and solve the mystery of the disappearing pie!

  • Nightlight
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    September 12, 2007

    The rest of Word World is trying to sleep, but Bear is keeping everyone awake with her all-night racket.

  • Rocket to the Moon
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    September 11, 2007

    When Frog needs to rescue the Little Piggies from the moon, he learns to appreciate lowercase letters.

  • Snug as a Bug
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    September 10, 2007

    Frog helps insomniac Bug figure out the end of the rhyme "snug as a bug in a ..." so that Bug can sleep.

  • Chef Sheep
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    September 10, 2007

    When Pig gets a bowl stuck on his face, Sheep must take over his cooking show. Sheep learns to have confidence in herself and saves the day!

  • Runaway O
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    September 7, 2007

    When Sheep and Bear open Cat's box of Os, one rolls away, sending them on a madcap chase to catch it before Cat wakes up.

  • The Birds
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    September 6, 2007

    Sheep discovers a large egg and has to take care of it until she can find Bird and return it to its rightful owner.

  • There's an Ant in Every Giant
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    September 5, 2007

    When Ant grows tired of being the smallest WordFriend in Word World, he adds a G-I to his tiny frame and changes from ANT to GIANT. However, he soon realizes that he can be Word World's biggest hero when he's just tiny Ant.

  • Duck's Family Reunion
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    September 4, 2007

    Because they have a similar sounding name, Duck mistakes Truck for a long-lost relative! Frog is a bit ruffled at the epidemic of silliness going around, but ends up saving the day for Duck and his word 'family'.

  • Sh-Sh-Shark!
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    September 4, 2007

    Shark is misunderstood. Everyone is afraid of him and won't even give him a chance to prove he's friendly. Everyone but Duck, that is, who doesn't know that the letters s and h together make the 'sh' sound. When Duck introduces his new friend "S-hark" to the gang, Duck learns a lesson about the /sh/ sound, while everyone else discovers that acceptance is an important part of friendship.

  • Happy Birthday Dog
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    September 3, 2007

    It's Dog's birthday and all his friends are planning a surprise party. There's just one problem - they need a cake! Frog must get to the party safely without Dog finding out.

  • Dog Wants to Play Ball
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    September 3, 2007

    Dog wants to play ball, but he's having trouble communicating with his friends because they won't stop and listen to him.