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Plot Summary:
In "Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs," a young red-headed boy explores life-issues with a team of dinosaur friends. His Nana gave him a bucket full of toy dinosaurs that allows him to visit a special place called Dino World. Whether he wants to stay up late, keep a library book past its due date, take care of a baby bird, or it's something else, Harry can work it out in this imaginative land. His dinosaur friends are Taury, Trike, Pterence, Patsy, Sid and Steggy. Back at home, Harry is looked after by his mother and his Nana.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 11 min
Plot tags: semi serious
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Plot Summary:
An eccentric schoolteacher takes her class on wondrous educational field trips with the help of a magical school bus.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, sentimental, retro, feel good, humorous, semi serious, educational, 2d animation, nostalgic
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Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings (1976)
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Simon is a bespectacled young boy with a penchant for chalk drawing, whether it be on random walls around town or on his own chalkboard at home. However one day, Simon meets one of his creations come to life, Henry, and after properly completing drawing him, Simon is led to the Land of Chalk Drawings; a land where everything Simon draws comes to life. From that moment, Simon has numerous adventures that often spring from his idle drawings in the real world, which has a bad habit of creating serious problems in the Land of Chalk Drawings. However, with Simon's creativity, and a steady supply of chalk at hand, the boy is able to create any solutions needed to save the day.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, surreal, semi serious
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Noddy, a wooden boy who lives in Toyland, introduces social concepts. He has big musical adventures with his friends and a very big imagination.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: anime, educational, computer animated
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Tickety Toc (2011)
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In The Unstoppable, Unpoppable Bubble, our comedic heroes Tommy and Tallulah test McCoggins¿ new unpoppable bubble formula! But soon an unpoppable bubble becomes so large it engulfs the whole town! Will the town be rescued from the extra-large and extra-strong bubble? Will Tommy & Tallulah make it out of the bubble in time to chime? In this and 5 other exciting adventures, the Tickety Town team, along with your own preschoolers, will learn the importance of teamwork, community and social responsibility.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: South Korea, UK
Duration: 11 min
Plot tags: educational, feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, exciting, fast, computer animated
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, retro, exciting, feel good, semi serious
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Harold and the Purple Crayon (2001)
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Harold is an adorably curious four year old with his purple crayon, who has the power to create a world of his own simply by drawing it. Harold wants to go for a walk in the moonlight, but there is no moon, so he draws one. He has nowhere to walk, so he draws a path. He has many adventures looking for his room, and in the end he draws his own house and bed and goes to sleep.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, sweet
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IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: Canada, UK
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: Ireland, UK, USA, South Korea, Canada
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, feel good, semi serious, captivating, offbeat, contemplative
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The Magic School Bus Rides Again (2017)
Plot Summary:
Ms. Frizzle's sister takes her class on a slew of wild science adventures in this update of the beloved animated show.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 915
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: educational, feel good, humorous, semi serious, captivating, anime, exciting
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 10 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, light, fairy tale, semi serious
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Germany, Italy
Duration:
Plot tags: atmospheric, stylized, semi serious, computer animated
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Plot Summary:
Join the pup Doki on his adventures with his friends exploring how stuff works.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 11 min
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IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: UK, Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anthology, anime, humorous, stylized, semi serious
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: educational, fairy tale, light, entertaining, feel good, captivating, exciting, offbeat, humorous, semi serious
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, computer animated, captivating, exciting, offbeat
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IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Spain
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 672
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 10 min
Plot tags: humorous, colorful, light, entertaining, computer animated, semi serious, 3d animation, colourful
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The Land Before Time (2007)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 905
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: semi serious, touching, humorous, captivating
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Tree Fu Tom (2012)
Plot Summary:
Tom appears to be a normal boy, but Tree Fu transforms him into a superhero.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, entertaining, light, humorous, semi serious, computer animated
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Snorks (1984)
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The Snorks is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera which ran on NBC from September 15, 1984, to May 13, 1989. Although not as popular as the animated series The Smurfs, the program continued to be available in syndication from 1986 to 1989 as part of The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera's 3rd season, on USA Network in the late-1980s and early-1990s, on the BBC in the late 1990s, and from 2009–2011 and again from 2012–Present on Boomerang.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Belgium, France, Philippines, Taiwan
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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My Big Big Friend is a series created by Canadian and Brazilian Claudia and Andres Lieban Koogan Breitman, co-produced by Brazilian studio 2D Lab and the Canadian company Breakthrough Animation. Had its first showing on August 9, 2010 on Discovery Kids Latin America and May 9, 2011 premiered on TV Brazil. It premiered in Canada on Treehouse TV on August 20, 2011. It was financed with the laws of federal tax incentives, the Procult and the Audiovisual Sector Fund - FSA. The show centers around the friendships of three children, Yuri, Lili and Matt, each of whom has a "Big Big Friend" who is invisible to adults and other children but seen by all three friends.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Brazil, Canada
Duration: 11 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, exciting, semi serious
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The story of a human named Megan in a world of magical ponies and their adventures together in Pony Land.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Short, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: light, light hearted, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Plot Summary:
An animated children's program about a little girl, her security blanket, and the adventures she has wile playing dress up in her closet.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Netherlands, Ireland, France
Duration: 11 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, computer animated
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Plot Summary:
Peter Pan lives in the Neverland with a gang of orphan boys, fairy Tinkerbell, and friends Wendy, John, and Michael Darling. Amid numerous adventures, the children are constantly menaced by pirate Captain James Hook and his band of no-goods.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 707
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan, Australia, Taiwan, Philippines, Canada, South Korea, New Zealand
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, semi serious
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ChalkZone (2002)
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, cult classic, exciting
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Pinky Dinky Doo (2005)
Plot Summary:
Pinky Dinky Doo dances her way into her Story Box to tell stories and solve problems using her big imagination and fancy words.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, light, exciting
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Peep and the Big Wide World (2004)
Plot Summary:
Peep and the Big Wide World is an animated cartoon that teaches nature and basic science concepts to preschoolers. The main characters include a yellow baby chick named Peep and his friends Quack, a teenaged blue drake, and Chirp, a baby red robin with pink eyelids. The current show, narrated by Joan Cusack is based on a National Film Board of Canada cartoon short of the same name, created in 1988 by Kaj Pindal and narrated by Peter Ustinov, and another short, "The Peep Show", from 1962. The original short comprised three 10-minute films featuring Peep, Quack, and Chirp as they meet a cat, a ladybug, a turtle and a frog who speaks from both sides of his mouth. The show is produced by WGBH in Boston and 9 Story Entertainment in Toronto, Canada. In the US, this show formerly aired on Discovery Kids as part of its commercial-free and sponsor-free "Ready, Set, Learn!" programming block. It now airs nationally in the United States on public television, distributed by American Public Television. In Canada, it airs on TVOntario. DVDs and books are also available for purchase. Peep and the Big Wide World is currently sponsored by the National Science Foundation in conjunction with WGBH-TV as part of an education and outreach program. The principal investigator is Kate Taylor, also of the ZOOM block. The National Science Foundation is the only permanent sponsor of the show. Northrop Grumman, The Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Toyota funded the show for only season two. The Discovery Kids Foundation funded the show for only season one. In 1999, the show was produced by Clumsy PriStar Television. The VHS copies are produced from Clumsy Pristar's home viewings.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 724
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, clever, educational
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Plot Summary:
The adventures of an inventive boy named Zack and his best friend, a young duck called Quack. Resourceful friend and neighbour, Kira, joins the dazzling duo on each adventure and is on hand to fix any paper problem with her expert pop-up tool kit.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Israel, UK, South Korea
Duration:
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Justin Time (2011)
Plot Summary:
Looking for adventure? Then come along as Justin and his imaginary pals Olive and Squidgy star in the biggest stories of all time. Justin’s imagination catapults him into larger-than-life adventures all around the world!.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, entertaining, educational, 2d animation
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