WonderWorks was a project jointly owned by The Walt Disney Company and PBS that made short, made for TV movies out of acclaimed children's books. They included adaptations of Anne of Green Gables, Bridge to Terabithia, All Summer in a Day, Jacob Have I Loved, The Box of Delights, The Chronicles of Narnia series, Miracle at Moreaux, The Hoboken Chicken Emergency (starring Peter Billingsley), Odile & Yvette at the Edge of the World (scored by Blake Leyh), How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days, Gryphon (produced by Manuel Arce and Carl Haber while starring Amanda Plummer), A Little Princess, A Girl of the Limberlost, Sweet 15, A Waltz Through the Hills, The Canterville Ghost, Caddie Woodlawn and The House of Dies Drear. It also coproduced the Australian Clowning Around series.
The program was coproduced by WQED-Pittsburgh, KCET-Los Angeles, KTCA-St. Paul/Minneapolis, South Carolina Educational Television, and WETA-Washington, D.C.
Funding was provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Public Television Stations/Viewers Like You, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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