Super Why!

2007 • PBS Kids
4.2
1.01K reviews
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Season 8 episodes (8)

1 Rumpelstiltskin
08-05-20
Season-only
From PBS KIDS - Princess Pea's father is busy, busy, busy with no time to help her tie up her skates. What's a Princess to do? The Super Readers use their literacy powers to visit another Princess whose funny little helper, Rumpelstiltskin, is far too busy to help her spin straw into gold. The Super Readers may be able to guess Rumpelstiltskin's name but they won't be able to guess what will happen in this story!
2 The Twelve Dancing Princesses
08-04-07
Season-only
From PBS KIDS: Whyatt's family is acting very sneaky and he wants to know why! The Super Readers waltz into the story of the Twelve Dancing Princesses - who are acting just as secretive. The Super Readers may be hot on the trail of the Princesses to discover what they're concealing, but will Whyatt uncover what his family is hiding?
3 The Three Billy Goats Gruff
08-04-08
Season-only
From PBS KIDS: Gramma will not let Red into the kitchen to get some extra special Red Velvet Cake - and it's making Red extremely mad! The Super Readers head into the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff, who really want to cross the Trolls bridge, only this time the Troll gets to tell his side of the story. The Super Readers wonder if anyone can make those rude Billy Goats Gruff behave, and Red figures out what Gramma needs to hear.
4 Thumbelina
08-04-09
Season-only
From PBS KIDS: Where is Pig's beloved stuffed hippo? He's looked high and low but Henry Hippo is nowhere to be found! The Super Readers shrink down to the size of ants and join teeny tiny Thumbelina on her GREAT BIG adventure to find her missing brother. They assist Thumbelina in her mission and Pig gets a helping hand along the way.
5 Beauty and the Beast
08-05-19
Season-only
From PBS KIDS: "Grrr! Stomp!" is all Princess Pea hears on her playdate with Wolfy and she can't figure out why he's so angry! The Super Readers zip into the story of Beauty and the Beast and get to know the Beast himself! He isn't so "beastly" after all and if only he could turn down his roaring, Beauty might figure out they're not as different as she thinks.
6 Tiddalick the Frog
08-04-22
Season-only
From PBS KIDS: Whyatt's mom tells him that he's wasting water. This is a really big problem and he's not sure how to fix it. So the Super Readers dash into the Australian folk tale of Tiddalick the Frog and make the acquaintance of a funny amphibian whose puddle jumping is using up all the water and leaving his neighbors in the dust - literally! As the Super Readers help Tiddalick and his dry friends, they learn how important water is to the planet along with a valuable lesson about conservation.
7 Sleeping Beauty
08-05-21
Season-only
From PBS KIDS: Ahoy Matey! Yo, ho, ho and...a cup of tea?! Uh oh, Princess Pea wants to play Tea Party but Pig and his brothers would like her to play Pirates! The Super Readers travel into the famous story of Sleeping Beauty to speak with a Princess who loves sleeping just as much as Princess Pea loves tea parties! The Super Readers apply their literacy powers to wake Sleeping Beauty...and wake her...and wake her again! Can they convince their new friend that there's more to life than snoozing or will she always find other activities a big snore?
8 The Foolish Wishes
08-05-22
Season-only
From PBS KIDS: Whyatt gets to pick one toy from the Toy Store but there are just too many choices! Will he select a race car, a comic book or even a Giant Magic Bubble Potion? The Super Readers meet a farmer and his wife who face an even more difficult decision - how to use three magic wishes. They need to figure out how to make a decision and help the impulsive farmer before he wastes all his chances on foolish things. Or will the couple ends up living out their days in a house made of sausages?

About this show

From PBS KIDS - Welcome to Super Why!, a breakthrough preschool series designed to help kids ages 3 to 6 with the critical skills that they need to learn to read (and love to read!) as recommended by the National Reading Panel (alphabet skills, word families, spelling, comprehension and vocabulary). Super Why! is the first original program from Out of the Blue Enterprises, an innovator in interactive children's entertainment led by Angela C. Santomero, an Emmy-nominated co-creator of Blue's Clues, and Samantha Freeman Alpert, a veteran in children's entertainment. Super Why! makes reading an empowering adventure by using interactive literacy games that need YOU to play. In Super Why! reading is power!

Ratings and reviews

4.2
1.01K reviews
Krista Winston
April 2, 2016
Julia the school and I did at school we did a school ever be good got the kids were best friends forever we had lunch and we are best friends forever and we sing songs is my birthday and they have said happy birthday to me and to you and Julie is going to be 9 years old and Jaden were five years old 5 years old and ywe all want to be a princess forever then we want to be a then and you're going to be my best friend I'm going to see them too and they got their friends at sc come on kee what best
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Bradley Sheranian
August 12, 2022
Super why the show is so pointless the it is supposed to help children read but mindless kids don't study the show or pay attention that they are supposed to learn something! Not to talk about the kids powers. Of course there is super why's power to read but can't all the other kids in the show read to even the dog can read and he know all the definitions of the words so the dog is smarter than super why!
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rhetoricmonkey
July 9, 2015
This is a great show. It is a shame welfare recipients aren't likely to see its value or be able to afford it in their mind. Maybe I'm wrong about how helpful this or other programs like it could be to potentially breaking the cradle to grave welfare cycle for some. I know they don't stand a chance without enrichment, I wonder how enriching (profitable) this program is for its producers. They have their kids to worry about and a plethora of bills to pay too. Great price!
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