WordGirl is an American children’s animated television series produced by the
Soup2Nuts animation unit of
Scholastic Entertainment for
PBS Kids. The show began as a series of shorts entitled
The Amazing Colossal Adventures of WordGirl that premiered on
PBS Kids Go! on November 10, 2006, usually shown at the end of
Maya & Miguel; the segment was then spun off into a new thirty-minute episodic series that premiered on September 3, 2007 on most
PBS member stations. All four full-episode seasons each have twenty-six episodes, while the preceding series of shorts had thirty.