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Annick Obonsawin
Annick Obonsawin (born October 12, 1983) is an Abenaki Canadian actress. Career Obonsawin has played roles in many children's shows such as Inez in ''Cyberchase'' and Skunk in '' Franklin''."Banker quit her job for Superman Dreaming up a career in television: Centennial program teaches how to create traditional or multimedia children's entertainment" by Paul Dalby, ''Toronto Star'' (22 March, 2012) Retrieved from She also played Slappy the Dummy in ''Goosebumps'', and Sierra in ''Total Drama''. She voiced Jamie, Johnny and Jimmy's sister, in the 2014 animated film ''The Nut Job'';"Going squirrelly, Gangnam-style" by Adam Nayman, ''The Globe and Mail'' (17 Jan, 2014) Retrieved from Belinda in the Disney Junior/TVOKids animated TV series ''Ella the Elephant''; and Startail in Starlink: Battle for Atlas. She also voices Helda from ''George Shrinks''. Personal life A First Nations woman, she is of Abenaki heritage."Small wonder" by Dick Loek, ''Toronto Star The ''Toronto Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British English, British and American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the ... marks and in American English the ... marks. Other symbols are repurposed as brackets in specialist contexts, such as International Phonetic Alphabet#Brackets and transcription delimiters, those used by linguists. Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a "left" or "right" bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of grammar, brackets ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Nations In Canada
''First Nations'' () is a term used to identify Indigenous peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis. Traditionally, First Nations in Canada were peoples who lived south of the tree line, and mainly south of the Arctic Circle. There are 634 recognized List of First Nations band governments, First Nations governments or bands across Canada. Roughly half are located in the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia. Under Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Charter jurisprudence, First Nations are a "designated group", along with women, Visible minority, visible minorities, and people with physical or mental disabilities. First Nations are not defined as a visible minority by the criteria of Statistics Canada. North American indigenous peoples have cultures spanning thousands of years. Many of their oral traditions accurately describe historical events, such as the 1700 Cascadia earthquake, Cascadia earthquake of 1700 and the 18th-century Tseax Cone eruption. Writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anatole (TV Series)
''Anatole'' is an animated children's television series based on the Anatole book series by Eve Titus. The series was created by Scottish Television, Valentine Productions s.a.r.l. and Nelvana as one of their numerous programmes. It originally aired on Canada's YTV network from 1998 to 1999, and premiered in the United States on CBS on 3 October 1998, and aired through the 1998–99 television season. Premise The series tells the story of Anatole, a mouse who lives in Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci .... He works as a night watchman in a cheese factory. He has a wife, Doucette, and a family of six little mice. Characters Main * Anatole, the series' lead. A loyal, honest, brave and open-minded mouse, Anatole is a good father to his children and a wonderfu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Bear (TV Series)
''Little Bear'', also known as ''Maurice Sendak's Little Bear'', is a Canadian children's animated television series co-produced by Nelvana Limited, produced in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It is based on Little Bear (book series), the children's book series of the same name written by Else Holmelund Minarik and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. In the United States, the series premiered on Nickelodeon as part of the Nick Jr. block on November 6, 1995, and the final episode aired on June 1, 2001. The series also aired on CBS on Saturday mornings from September 16, 2000, until September 15, 2001. Every twenty-two minute long episode of the series is divided into three seven-minute segments. Most segments are new stories, but some are retellings of Else Holmelund Minarik's books (both she and Sendak were "closely involved in the creative process" when developing the new stories). A direct-to-video feature film titled ''The Little Bear Movie'' was released in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goosebumps
''Goosebumps'' is a series of children's horror novels written by American author R. L. Stine. The protagonists in these stories are teens or pre-teens who find themselves in frightening circumstances, often involving the supernatural, the paranormal or the occult. Between 1992 and 1997, sixty-two books were published under the '' Goosebumps'' umbrella title. R. L. Stine also wrote various spin-off series, including, '' Goosebumps Series 2000'', '' Give Yourself Goosebumps'', '' Tales to Give You Goosebumps'', '' Goosebumps Triple Header'', '' Goosebumps HorrorLand'', '' Goosebumps Most Wanted'' and '' Goosebumps SlappyWorld''. Additionally, there was a series called '' Goosebumps Gold'' that was never released. ''Goosebumps'' has spawned a pair of television series, a video games series, a comic series and merchandise, as well as a pair of feature films, which star Jack Black as a fictionalized version of Stine. The series was originally published in English by Scholasti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Neverending Story (TV Series)
''The Neverending Story'', also known as ''The NeverEnding Story: The Animated Adventures of Bastian Balthazar Bux'', is an animated television series, produced by CineVox Entertainment and animated by Ellipse Animation and Nelvana Limited. It aired for one season (1995–1996) on HBO, and ran for 26 episodes. In Canada, it also aired on Family Channel. The series is loosely based on Michael Ende's book, ''The Neverending Story'' (1979). Plot A young boy named Bastian helps yet again the Childlike Empress and her people of Fantasia, an imagination land that can be accessed and influenced through a magical book called ''The Neverending Story'', because the horrifying Nothing and other villains like the evil sorceress Xayide still threaten it. In the process, Bastian learns valuable lessons and gains many magical friends like the wooden Bark Troll, the luckdragon Falkor and many others. Differences between the TV series and the film In the series, the Nothing is a recurring v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Magic School Bus (TV Series)
''The Magic School Bus'' is an animated educational children's television series, based on the The Magic School Bus (book series), book series of the same name by Joanna Cole (author), Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen. Originally broadcast from 1994 to 1997, the series received critical acclaim for its use of celebrity voice talent, as well as combining entertainment with an educational series. The series stars Lily Tomlin as the voice of Ms. Frizzle. The theme song is performed by Little Richard. Premise The animated series follows the adventures of eccentric teacher Ms. Frizzle and her eight students as they explore the wonders of science on their exciting field trips. Their journey takes them to different locations, time periods, and encounters with various creatures, all while learning about science and the world around them. The school they attend, Walkerville Elementary, is set in the fictitious town of Walkerville. The characters travel all over the world and into space througho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Adventures Of Dudley The Dragon
''The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon'' is a Canadian children's television series which aired on YTV in Canada and on public television stations (through Tampa, Florida PBS member station WEDU) in the United States. It aired from 1993 to 1997 and later reran until 1999. Made in live-action, it incorporated actors, full body costume characters (notably the titular dragon) and puppets. Graham Greene won a Gemini Award in 1994 for his role. He was nominated in 1998 for the episode ''The Tiny Little Raincloud''. Jackie Burroughs was also nominated in 1994 for the same award, this time for performing in the episode ''High Flying Dragon''. Premise The series follows Dudley, a dragon who recently woke up from centuries of hibernation and his new 10-year-old friends Matt and Sally, both of whom guide Dudley around the modern world and the trio would learn about environmentalism, friendship and pro-social values. Besides Matt and Sally, Dudley was later joined by other kids, Terry, J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Fashion Fairytale
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide. Its name in English is '' a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version is often written in one of two forms: the double-storey and single-storey . The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English, '' a'' is the indefinite article, with the alternative form ''an''. Name In English, the name of the letter is the ''long A'' sound, pronounced . Its name in most other languages matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. History The earliest known ancestor of A is ''aleph''—the first letter of the Phoenician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Bartlett
''Charlie Bartlett'' is a 2007 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Jon Poll. The screenplay by Gustin Nash focuses on a teenager who begins to dispense therapeutic advice and prescription drugs to the student body at his new high school in order to become popular. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on May 1, 2007, and was shown at the Cannes Film Market, the Maui Film Festival, and the Cambridge Film Festival before going into theatrical release in the United States and Canada on February 22, 2008. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed just $5 million against its $12 million budget. Plot The son of a depressed but doting mother ( Hope Davis) and a father who is serving time for tax evasion, wealthy teenager Charlie Bartlett ( Anton Yelchin) — after being expelled from several private academies for various infractions — enrolls in a public school run by embittered alcoholic Principal Nathan Gardner (Robert Downey Jr.), who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Back To School With Franklin
The human back, also called the dorsum (: dorsa), is the large posterior area of the human body, rising from the top of the buttocks to the back of the neck. It is the surface of the body opposite from the chest and the abdomen. The vertebral column runs the length of the back and creates a central area of recession. The breadth of the back is created by the shoulders at the top and the pelvis at the bottom. Back pain is a common medical condition, generally benign in origin. Structure The central feature of the human back is the vertebral column, specifically the length from the top of the thoracic vertebrae to the bottom of the lumbar vertebrae, which houses the spinal cord in its spinal canal, and which generally has some curvature that gives shape to the back. The ribcage extends from the spine at the top of the back (with the top of the ribcage corresponding to the T1 vertebra), more than halfway down the length of the back, leaving an area with less protection between the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franklin And The Green Knight
''Franklin and the Green Knight'' (also known as ''Franklin and the Green Knight: The Movie'') is a 2000 Canadian animated adventure film directed by John van Bruggen and written by Betty Quan. The first '' Franklin'' film, ''Franklin and the Green Knight'' was released direct-to-video on October 17, 2000 and was later released on DVD. The film has a runtime of 77 minutes and follows Franklin setting out to help spring arrive with the help of his friend, Snail. It has since aired on Noggin and Nick Jr. in the United States in 2004, and Canada's Family Channel. Plot Franklin Turtle is excited about the coming of spring and the baby his parents will get, but it is still winter. Franklin's mom tells him about the Green Knight to cheer him up when he had brought spring to the kingdom and an idea of how to bring spring himself. Voice actors * Noah Reid as Franklin Turtle * Luca Perlman as Bear * Olivia Garratt as Goose * Kyle Fairlie as Rabbit * Kristen Bone as Snail * Leah Cudm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
