NEW YORK – Nickelodeon’s “The Wonder Pets!” introduced preschoolers to classical music and opera during its first season. Now it’s moving on to the Beatles. It says something about the Beatles’ ...

When Tony Award-winning Broadway composer Jason Robert Brown was approached about writing music for a new, operetta-style preschool TV show -- about cute and fuzzy classroom pets -- he wasn’t exactly ...

In every musical episode of Nickelodeon's preschool favorite "The Wonder Pets!," the story returns to a central theme: "We're not too big and we're not too tough, but when we work together, we've got ...

An entire library of children’s literature could be built around the secret life of classroom pets, those ubiquitous frogs, turtles, gerbils and other creatures that must wonder at the cyclical ...