Chapters: List of Episodes of Pinky Dinky Doo, Jim Jinkins. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Pinky Dinky Doo is a children's animated series that currently airs on Nick Jr. and dubbed in Spanish on Univision in the USA, ABC in Australia, CBeebies in Great Britain and CBC in Canada, in the Kids' CBC programming block. Pinky is a 7 year old girl who lives in Great Big City with her parents, her 4 year old little brother, Tyler, and their pet, Mr. Guinea Pig. When a problem arises, Pinky says, "I think I have an idea," and Tyler says, "Pinky, are you going to tell a story?" and Pinky will say, "Yeserooni positooni " and dances her way to a cardboard Story Box with Tyler and Mr. Guinea Pig and uses a piece of chalk and her imagination to tell a story. During the made-up story, Pinky must Think Big, at which point her head swells and she comes up with an often wacky solution to the problem by singing "It's time to think. If I have a problem and don't know which way to go, I think and think and think and think and suddenly I know ." In "Tyler Dinky Doo to the Rescue" and "Go to Bed, Tyler ," Tyler does the thinking. In "Shrinky Pinky," it was Mr. Guinea Pig. In the 2nd season, for some stories after the Story Box incident, Pinky uses the Story Pad, a notebook in which Pinky draws pictures for her newer made-up stories. This show helps viewers increase their vocabularies with its Great Big Fancy Word, which is featured several times during the episode. It also addresses problem-solving skills as well as the basics of narrative storiescharacter, dialogue, plot, details, main idea and sequence of events. After Pinky tells her story and solves the problem of the day, kids are invited to play an interactive game on the Cheese Sandwich toy, where they revi...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=648799