Her feet were made for walking right out of the TV screen and into kid's hearts. Now Franny's Feet's on DVD, a celebration of the first season of the PBS Kids show here in America.
Babble gives you a look-see at which episodes made the Franny's Feet DVD cut and why it's worth walking over to the store to pick them up for your kids:
Taking the phrase "take a walk in his shoes" literally, Franny's Feet sends chubby-cheeked Franny on an adventure around the globe every time she slips her tootsies in the latest pair of shoes dropped at her grandfather's cobbler shop. Suspend the ick factor of actually wearing someone else's shoes (which, not surprisingly, doesn't seem to bother kids on iota), and you've got the makings of an imagination generator for off-screen too.
The show itself is short - episodes are broken into eleven-minute-long segments to contend with the attention span of the four-to-seven-year-old target range. Creators make up for it with content. On the new Princess Franny! DVD, six episodes from the season integrate learning about a new part of the world with lessons on shapes, manners and other kid necessities. In that sense, it's your basic PBS fare - heavy on the values and ultra kid-friendly. Franny has an inordinately large head and strange body, but if that's the worst of her faults, I can take it.
The question is - where are your kids' feet going to take them today?
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