I’ve been previewing the upcoming series Word World and I must tell you that I’ve finally found a show on TV (well, soon to be on TV anyway) that I’d actually let my kids watch.

It’s an incredibly innovative addition to the preschoolers TV lineup that’s coming to PBS Kids in the fall of this year. The characters and animation are engaging enough, like all cartoons, but the coolest thing about Word World is that each character and (many other inanimate items in the show) is actually a word. See the dog and the house to the right of this post? Isn’t that cool?

As an early literacy teacher in the “real world” I can, for the very first time, recommend something that will be on the big black box for your children. Though…does PBS Kids have commercials? Because if it does your kids still shouldn’t be watching those (we believe no child should see a commercial until they’re at least school aged - preferably 8-10 - and you can teach them to be incredibly critical of marketing) and I’d recommend taping/downloading/Tivo-ing/insert your favourite method of commercial removal here instead of letting the kids actually sit & watch it when it’s on, but the show itself? Magical.