Timothy Goes to School
Timothy Goes to School is a children's animated television series based on books written by Rosemary Wells, but is titled after the book of the same name. The show premiered on September 30, 2000, and aired its final episode on January 26, 2002. The show aired on PBS Kids as part of the PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch block from 2000 until 2004. Premise. "Timothy Goes to School" primarily focuses on a young enthusiastic anthropomorphic raccoon named Timothy (voiced by Austin Di Iulio), who attends kindergarten at a fictional place called "Hilltop School" along with ten  other students (each of which are of different animals except for the Frank Twins and Claude). The kindergarten class is taught by Mrs. Jenkins, a comforting teacher who enjoys educating and helping her students. Characters. Below are the characters split up into three groups, children, adults, and others. A majority of the characters were taken from the "Yoko and Friends: School Days" book series, alongside other Rosemary Wells stories such as "Shy Charles", "Fritz and the Mess Fairy", and "Noisy Nora". Others. There are several notable adults and relatives, though many only appear in a couple of episodes (Yoko's  mother, Doris' brothers, Nora's baby brother Jack, Charles's Auntie Bea, and the other children's parents). Yoko, Fritz, and Lilly do not appear to have their fathers while the Franks and Claude do not appear to have a mother, however, these situations are never stated in the show. Telecast and home media. "Timothy Goes to School" was first premiered on September 30, 2000, and aired its final episode on January 26, 2002. The show aired on PBS Kids as part of the PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch block from 2000 until 2004. The show was aired in the U.S.  on the channels PBS Kids, Discovery Kids, and Qubo. In Canada, the show aired on stations YTV, Treehouse TV, and TVO Kids. Repeats were later broadcast on Discovery Kids (until 2006) and Qubo in the U.S. In foreign countries, the show also aired on the United Kingdom's digital TV channel Tiny Pop, Israel on Hop! under the Hebrew title "טימותי הולך לבית הספר", in the Middle East on Almajd TV Network, and in Latin America on ZAZ. In Brazil, the show was aired on TV Cultura in 2003 until 2007. In the mid-2000s, KaBoom! Entertainment has released several DVD  releases of the series in Canada. A DVD titled "Lessons Learned" was released by the US distributor FUNimation Entertainment in 2004, under the Our Time Family Entertainment imprint. A DVD of the series was released in the United Kingdom by Maverick Entertainment in 2004. Two more DVDs titled "New Friends" and "When I Grow Up" were released by FremantleMedia in 2008 and 2009. As of 2022, the show is now streaming on Tubi.