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Between the Lions

Leona and Lionel Get Wild About Reading with the help of their dad Theo on BETWEEN THE LIONS.

Theo, Cleo, Lionel and Leona — a family of lions — run a magical library where characters pop out of books, vowels sing and words take on a life of their own. The series combines puppetry, animation and live action to help young children learn to read. For children 4 to 7 years old.

Upcoming episodes

WETA Kids

Airs on
WETA Kids Channel

Mon., March 22, 2010
1:00 am
(30 minutes)

Library lions teach their cubs to read in this acclaimed children's show, which blends puppetry, animation and live action for an audience (ages 4-7) already familiar with its ABCs.

Closed Captioning Rating: TV-Y

WETA Kids

Airs on
WETA Kids Channel

Mon., March 22, 2010
1:30 am
(30 minutes)

Library lions teach their cubs to read in this acclaimed children's show, which blends puppetry, animation and live action for an audience (ages 4-7) already familiar with its ABCs.

Closed Captioning Rating: TV-Y

WETA Kids

Airs on
WETA Kids Channel

Mon., March 22, 2010
2:00 am
(30 minutes)

Library lions teach their cubs to read in this acclaimed children's show, which blends puppetry, animation and live action for an audience (ages 4-7) already familiar with its ABCs.

Closed Captioning Rating: TV-Y

WETA Kids

Airs on
WETA Kids Channel

Mon., March 22, 2010
2:30 am
(30 minutes)

Library lions teach their cubs to read in this acclaimed children's show, which blends puppetry, animation and live action for an audience (ages 4-7) already familiar with its ABCs.

Closed Captioning Rating: TV-Y

WETA Kids

Airs on
WETA Kids Channel

Mon., March 22, 2010
3:00 am
(30 minutes)

Library lions teach their cubs to read in this acclaimed children's show, which blends puppetry, animation and live action for an audience (ages 4-7) already familiar with its ABCs.

Closed Captioning Rating: TV-Y

WETA Kids

Airs on
WETA Kids Channel

Mon., March 22, 2010
6:00 am
(30 minutes)

Library lions teach their cubs to read in this acclaimed children's show, which blends puppetry, animation and live action for an audience (ages 4-7) already familiar with its ABCs.

Closed Captioning Rating: TV-Y

WETA Kids

Airs on
WETA Kids Channel

Tue., March 23, 2010
6:00 am
(30 minutes)

Library lions teach their cubs to read in this acclaimed children's show, which blends puppetry, animation and live action for an audience (ages 4-7) already familiar with its ABCs.

Closed Captioning Rating: TV-Y

WETA Kids

Airs on
WETA Kids Channel

Wed., March 24, 2010
6:00 am
(30 minutes)

Library lions teach their cubs to read in this acclaimed children's show, which blends puppetry, animation and live action for an audience (ages 4-7) already familiar with its ABCs.

Closed Captioning Rating: TV-Y

WETA Kids

Airs on
WETA Kids Channel

Thu., March 25, 2010
6:00 am
(30 minutes)

Library lions teach their cubs to read in this acclaimed children's show, which blends puppetry, animation and live action for an audience (ages 4-7) already familiar with its ABCs.

Closed Captioning Rating: TV-Y

WETA Kids

Airs on
WETA Kids Channel

Fri., March 26, 2010
6:00 am
(30 minutes)

Library lions teach their cubs to read in this acclaimed children's show, which blends puppetry, animation and live action for an audience (ages 4-7) already familiar with its ABCs.

Closed Captioning Rating: TV-Y

WETA Kids

Airs on
WETA Kids Channel

Mon., March 29, 2010
1:00 am
(30 minutes)

Library lions teach their cubs to read in this acclaimed children's show, which blends puppetry, animation and live action for an audience (ages 4-7) already familiar with its ABCs.

Closed Captioning Rating: TV-Y

WETA Kids

Airs on
WETA Kids Channel

Mon., March 29, 2010
1:30 am
(30 minutes)

Library lions teach their cubs to read in this acclaimed children's show, which blends puppetry, animation and live action for an audience (ages 4-7) already familiar with its ABCs.

Closed Captioning Rating: TV-Y

WETA Kids

Airs on
WETA Kids Channel

Mon., March 29, 2010
2:00 am
(30 minutes)

Library lions teach their cubs to read in this acclaimed children's show, which blends puppetry, animation and live action for an audience (ages 4-7) already familiar with its ABCs.

Closed Captioning Rating: TV-Y

WETA Kids

Airs on
WETA Kids Channel

Mon., March 29, 2010
2:30 am
(30 minutes)

Library lions teach their cubs to read in this acclaimed children's show, which blends puppetry, animation and live action for an audience (ages 4-7) already familiar with its ABCs.

Closed Captioning Rating: TV-Y

WETA Kids

Airs on
WETA Kids Channel

Mon., March 29, 2010
3:00 am
(30 minutes)

Library lions teach their cubs to read in this acclaimed children's show, which blends puppetry, animation and live action for an audience (ages 4-7) already familiar with its ABCs.

Closed Captioning Rating: TV-Y

WETA Kids

Airs on
WETA Kids Channel

Mon., March 29, 2010
6:00 am
(30 minutes)

Library lions teach their cubs to read in this acclaimed children's show, which blends puppetry, animation and live action for an audience (ages 4-7) already familiar with its ABCs.

Closed Captioning Rating: TV-Y

WETA Kids

Airs on
WETA Kids Channel

Tue., March 30, 2010
6:00 am
(30 minutes)

Library lions teach their cubs to read in this acclaimed children's show, which blends puppetry, animation and live action for an audience (ages 4-7) already familiar with its ABCs.

Closed Captioning Rating: TV-Y

WETA Kids

Airs on
WETA Kids Channel

Wed., March 31, 2010
6:00 am
(30 minutes)

Library lions teach their cubs to read in this acclaimed children's show, which blends puppetry, animation and live action for an audience (ages 4-7) already familiar with its ABCs.

Closed Captioning Rating: TV-Y

WETA Kids

Airs on
WETA Kids Channel

Thu., April 1, 2010
6:00 am
(30 minutes)

Earl's Too Cool; When I Was Five

Making friends and maintaining friendships. Key words: too, five. Consonant sounds: t, f.

Closed Captioning Rating: TV-Y

Previously aired episodes

WETA Kids

Airs on
WETA Kids Channel

Fri., March 19, 2010
6:00 am
(30 minutes)

Library lions teach their cubs to read in this acclaimed children's show, which blends puppetry, animation and live action for an audience (ages 4-7) already familiar with its ABCs.

Closed Captioning Rating: TV-Y

WETA Kids

Airs on
WETA Kids Channel

Thu., March 18, 2010
6:00 am
(30 minutes)

Library lions teach their cubs to read in this acclaimed children's show, which blends puppetry, animation and live action for an audience (ages 4-7) already familiar with its ABCs.

Closed Captioning Rating: TV-Y

WETA Kids

Airs on
WETA Kids Channel

Wed., March 17, 2010
6:00 am
(30 minutes)

Library lions teach their cubs to read in this acclaimed children's show, which blends puppetry, animation and live action for an audience (ages 4-7) already familiar with its ABCs.

Closed Captioning Rating: TV-Y

WETA Kids

Airs on
WETA Kids Channel

Tue., March 16, 2010
6:00 am
(30 minutes)

Library lions teach their cubs to read in this acclaimed children's show, which blends puppetry, animation and live action for an audience (ages 4-7) already familiar with its ABCs.

Closed Captioning Rating: TV-Y

WETA Kids

Airs on
WETA Kids Channel

Mon., March 15, 2010
6:00 am
(30 minutes)

Library lions teach their cubs to read in this acclaimed children's show, which blends puppetry, animation and live action for an audience (ages 4-7) already familiar with its ABCs.

Closed Captioning Rating: TV-Y

WETA Kids

Airs on
WETA Kids Channel

Mon., March 15, 2010
3:00 am
(30 minutes)

Library lions teach their cubs to read in this acclaimed children's show, which blends puppetry, animation and live action for an audience (ages 4-7) already familiar with its ABCs.

Closed Captioning Rating: TV-Y

WETA Kids

Airs on
WETA Kids Channel

Mon., March 15, 2010
2:30 am
(30 minutes)

Library lions teach their cubs to read in this acclaimed children's show, which blends puppetry, animation and live action for an audience (ages 4-7) already familiar with its ABCs.

Closed Captioning Rating: TV-Y

WETA Kids

Airs on
WETA Kids Channel

Mon., March 15, 2010
2:00 am
(30 minutes)

Library lions teach their cubs to read in this acclaimed children's show, which blends puppetry, animation and live action for an audience (ages 4-7) already familiar with its ABCs.

Closed Captioning Rating: TV-Y

WETA Kids

Airs on
WETA Kids Channel

Mon., March 15, 2010
1:30 am
(30 minutes)

Library lions teach their cubs to read in this acclaimed children's show, which blends puppetry, animation and live action for an audience (ages 4-7) already familiar with its ABCs.

Closed Captioning Rating: TV-Y

WETA Kids

Airs on
WETA Kids Channel

Mon., March 15, 2010
1:00 am
(30 minutes)

Library lions teach their cubs to read in this acclaimed children's show, which blends puppetry, animation and live action for an audience (ages 4-7) already familiar with its ABCs.

Closed Captioning Rating: TV-Y

Program description

Between the Lions is funded in part by a Ready To Learn cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Education through PBS.

Theo, Cleo, Lionel and Leona — a family of lions — run a magical library where characters pop out of books, vowels sing and words take on a life of their own. The series combines puppetry, animation and live action to help young children learn to read.

For children 4 to 7 years old.

Series Goals

  • Dramatize the benefits of reading
  • Show that learning to read and spell can be a struggle, but a worthwhile one
  • Show that there are many reasons to write
  • Introduce new vocabulary words and their meanings
  • Show how words work through phonemics, alphabetic principle and spelling conventions

Between the Lions gives young viewers a chance to have meaningful and manageable reading experiences by using key words in simple, decodable, connected text onscreen. The program also reinforces high-frequency "sight" words to help children become more comfortable with reading.

Helping Kids Prepare for School

The series aims to support children's early reading skills by:

  • modeling reading, writing and speaking skills
  • motivating children to read and write
  • introducing children to phonemics and letter-sound relationships
  • acquainting children with a wide range of texts in different media

Channel guide

 WETA TV 26WETA HDWETA CreateWETA Kids Channel
Via antenna26.426.126.226.3
Comcast26, 92220 (DC), 219 (Balt)265266
Cox26, 802726800801
Verizon FIOS26, 471526474472
RCN266133938
DirecTV 26, 26-1  
Dish Network8076