Concept
From the colorful backyard of bugs where Witzy and his teddy bear Boof and others explore their environment to the world where Jack Quacker, Suzy Ducken and Corky Turtle have their adventures all over town, and beyond, —come visit ALL the denizens of a magical place where folks from 1 to 100 years of age can be amused and amazed! Even dogs and cats have a home in the best town on Earth: Duckport!

Suzy’s Zoo Background
Suzy’s Zoo was established in 1968 by award-winning artist Suzy Spafford. Deriving from Suzy’s own childhood memories, it evokes the spirit of a time before the advent of cell phones and computers, when kids were free to roam their neighborhood and make their own discoveries. Welcome to an unspoiled world of fun! Under the Big Top of the master brand ‘Suzy’s Zoo’ are the three sub-brands- Little Suzy’s Zoo, all about the toddler duckling Witzy and his stuffed animal friends; Duckport, featuring Suzy, Jack, Corky, and the rest of whole town; and Wags and Whiskers, featuring the lovable dog Kirby Harrington, the smarty-pants cat Natasha, and their cat and dog pals.

There are many superb licensing partners that sell Suzy’s Zoo images on such products as infant clothing, greeting cards, bedding, books, table.

Target Market
Suzy’s Zoo (aka Classic Suzy’s Zoo / Duckport) - Ages 4-100
Little Suzy’s Zoo - Ages 18 months - 4 years

Website
www.suzyszoo.com
UK/Europe-Focused Website - www.witzyandfriends.com

Status
Animated television series in production

Available
Licensing and merchandising; worldwide television and home video rights
Click here to learn more about Suzy’s Zoo

Concept
Eddie is a Yeti – Toon Goggles’ first entry into original content and merchandising –is a new property targeted to children ages 6-12. The animated short-form children’s series follows the adventures of Eddie the yeti and his best friend, Polly, and will be produced with Mondo TV, who will be handling overseas distribution and merchandising. Its non-dialogue format easily allows for a worldwide audience.

Eddie is a Yeti will be promoted across the Toon Goggles platform, appearing on its iOS and Android applications for smartphones and tablets, as well as on Sony, Sharp and Samsung smart TVs, Roku set-top boxes and many other devices.

Target Market
Children ages 6-12

Available
Licensing, merchandising and publishing in North America

Concept
Blabla Kids creates contemporary hand knit dolls, accessories and home décor for children. Designed by Florence Wetterwald and handmade by Peruvian artisans, their products are eco‐friendly, and made from natural fibers of exceptional quality, which makes them irresistibly soft and cuddly.

Blabla Kids was created in 2001 by Susan Pritchett and Florence Wetterwald, two good friends with the same philosophy of life and beauty.

While visiting Peru, they came across entire villages of expert knitters who had been keeping the tradition alive for generations. Inspired by their talent and touched by their gentle spirit, the two decided to start their own company of knitted products for children. They have now been collaborating with the same artisans for over a decade. The product range continues to grow and now includes soft dolls, rattles, finger puppets, mobiles, and a home décor line called Petit Home which includes crib bedding, sheets and blankets, pillows and play pads.
Joined by Florence’s husband, Joseph Strong, in 2003, the company has evolved into a close‐knit group of friends and family with a mission to continue to inspire joy and laughter. With a commitment to fair trade and keeping environmental awareness in mind, Susan, Florence, and Joseph feel very lucky to be able to bring a little bit of tenderness to so many children every day.

These high quality products are currently sold at their flagship store in Atlanta, GA as well as nearly 50 countries worldwide. The company continues to honor the ethical principle upon which it was founded, engaging in environmentally friendly fair trade practices and commissioning rigorous third party testing of all fabric dyes, stuffing and small parts.

The Random House Books for Young Readers imprint of Random House Children’s Books will publish an original board book series based on the property beginning in Fall 2016. The first two titles, Peekaboo Pierre and Sleepy Little Wooly, feature Blabla Kids characters and simple toddler concepts. Two more titles will follow in 2017.

Children worldwide love the animated shorts, created by the Blabla Kids team in their design studio! These shorts can be viewed here: https://vimeo.com/album/2862112.

Dan Romanelli of Romy Consulting and Jen Kramer of Jenerosity Marketing will be handling worldwide licensing and merchandising for Blabla Kids.

For more information, please visit http://www.blablakids.com/

Target Market
Children ages 2‐8

Available
Co-production, finance, and distribution for all media worldwide.

Concept
Messy Anne is a book-based property targeted to preschool children created by Daniel Barnhart and John Uhrich.

Messy Anne is a charming story about a little girl named Melissa Anne, whom everyone simply calls Messy - because Messy makes messes.

Messy Anne is a girl with things on her mind – usually the next thing. Despite her best intentions, Messy’s imagination inevitably gets her into one wild predicament after another, and Messy is left face to face with the consequences of her actions.

These consequences inevitably take the form of The Monstrosity—Messy’s nemesis and an imagined physical externalization of her mess. Never complaining, Messy rolls up her sleeves to do battle!

Target Market
Preschool children

Available
Co-production, finance, and distribution for all media, licensing and merchandising worldwide.

Concept
Olive is an ostrich with a big imagination, huge heart and a gigantic appetite for adventure! She lives in the outback with her family, but Olive is different…what makes Olive special is her amazing imagination. So while her family is running, pecking and laying eggs, Olive can be found imagining herself going on exciting adventures when she buries her head, down, deep down into the sand…

Olive the Ostrich debuted in the US on PBS Sprout in mid 2012 and is currently shown in Australia, Denmark, UK, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Benelux, France, Poland, Canada and Israel. In each episode, animators bring to life real pictures drawn by children. The children’s artwork is used to create all the guest characters, places and objects that Olive encounters. Inquisitive and enthusiastic, Olive loves to solve problems and help people whenever she can. She’ll try anything once, which can get her into trouble, but she always finds fun and inventive ways to get out of it.

Olive the Ostrich is produced and owned by Blue Zoo Productions Ltd.

Target market
Children

Website
http://www.olivetheostrich.tv/

To view the “Making of Olive”, please click here and use password ostrich.

In January 2013, a team of animators from Blue Zoo traveled to Ethiopia and ran animation workshops with school children. The children were asked to create artwork based on an Olive the Ostrich story that was written by a child who won a competition on the Nick Jr. website.

The children’s fantastic artwork will be brought to life in episodes of Olive the Ostrich.

Click here to view a video of these children hard at work!

Available
USA and Canada

Concept
Cartland is a project based on the life, success, and magic of Barbara Cartland, the biggest selling author in the history of romantic fiction – The Queen of Romance.

Barbara Cartland wrote over 400 novels, translated into 36 languages – and sold nearly one billion books worldwide.

For three generations, she was the world’s undisputed No. 1 in the world of romantic fiction. Her name is known and revered by millions across the globe.

Honored by the Queen for her services to Literature, Dame Barbara was far more than a popular novelist. She was a respected journalist, a champion of women’s rights and a tireless campaigner for preserving the world’s ecology.

She made countless appearances on television in the USA, Europe and Asia. She persuaded politicians to take women’s concerns seriously and to support ‘green’ objectives long before it was fashionable to do so.

She was Princess Diana’s step-grandmother and encouraged many of her causes.

From the Roaring Twenties to the New Millennium, Barbara Cartland was not just a worldwide celebrity—she was the embodiment of an idea.

Among her millions of readers, particularly the young, she was the focus for a way of thinking, an approach to living that holds romance and optimism in high esteem. Her name was, and remains, a powerful symbol for all that is good in the female experience, regardless of race or creed.

The name Cartland is a worldwide brand, a celebration of the feminine that strikes a chord in the hearts and minds of countless women, from New York to New Delhi and from Rome to Rio.

Target Market
Adults

Available
Co-production, finance, and distribution for all media, licensing and merchandising worldwide.

Concept
Return of the Dodger tells the unknown story of Oliver Twist and the Artful Dodger in 1890’s London.

Jack Dawkins was only 12 when a London judge deported him to Australia. Nicknamed the Artful Dodger, he was the top pickpocket in Fagin’s gang of child thieves. Dodger and his friend Oliver Twist stole a fortune for old Fagin. But that was long ago. Today, the Dodger is over 40. And he’s back in London.

Follow the artful one and his beautiful daughter (yes, he has a daughter now) as they take Victorian London by storm — in search of Fagin’s treasure.

See them finagle their way into high society. Watch them dodge enemies, avoid traps, and rediscover Oliver Twist himself.

It’s the adventure of a lifetime — with gold at the end of the rainbow.

Target Market
Adults

Available
Co-production, finance, and distribution for all media, licensing and merchandising worldwide.

Concept
Poby is a fictional character for children, created by Heiko Kiera – when he was only fourteen years old – while living in an orphanage in former East Germany.

As an “older” teenager, Heiko had to read bedtime stories to the younger children once a week, but instead of reading the Brother Grimm’s fairy tails, he decided to give those little orphans something special, something that they could all relate to.

And so Poby was invented - a magical blue lamb that was made from stars. His purpose was to cheer up the very sad moon (children who have lost their parents are extreme sad beings. Their cries of loneliness remain all too often ignored in such institutions).

The moon liked Poby so much that he adopted him as his son. Being a lamb on the moon is very difficult indeed, because all sheep need grass to eat, but grass doesn’t grow in space! So every night the moon has to descent to the highest mountain cliff on earth, to drop his son off (not for Kindergarten but…) so he can wander around to find some food.

But before leaving, Poby always has to promise to return in time before the sun rises or else the moon will have to leave without his son and Poby will be trapped on earth forever.

But like all youngsters, one night Poby forgets about the passing time and when he returns to the cliff, the sun is high up and the moon is gone. Now Poby is all alone and he becomes an orphan himself (just like Heiko’s little audience in the German orphanage).

Poby had to quickly learn to survive on his own; courageously he faced all sorts of adventures and made many friends on his way to acquire the needed wisdom to become a hero. His friends eventually became his family on earth, but he always remained in touch with the moon and the stars, who provided him with the magical powers to fight all evil.

Back in those days, the Poby stories gave the children in that German orphanage great joy and much needed hope. Soon every child wanted to be like little Poby. Needless to say, Poby became very popular indeed and even the older children joined the weekly “Poby Story Session”.

After leaving the orphanage, there was no need to continue telling Poby stories, but he always lingered in the back of Heiko’s mind…years later, Heiko became curious about what Poby would actually look like as an illustrated character. So without any drawing skills or background in art, he boldly got some paint and primitively began illustrating “Poby Adventures” back in 1996…

Target Market
Preschool children

Available
Co-production, finance, and distribution for all media, licensing and merchandising, publishing worldwide.

Concept
Launched in 2000 by leading Italian publisher Edizioni Piemme through a series of children’s books, Geronimo Stilton is a famous Mouse-author/newspaper editor who writes amusing adventures steeped in suspense and healthy values for children the world over. The simple format of Geronimo’s books – excitement, adventure and humor – made them an immediate hit. Publishing rights to the Geronimo Stilton series have been sold to many of the world’s most prestigious publishing houses. The books have been translated into 42 languages and distributed to 150 countries with over 100 million copies sold WW. Sales of Geronimo Stilton books in the US, published by Scholastic, top 17 million in the U.S. and 38 million copies have been sold worldwide in English.

Target market
Children ages 6-12

Available
Licensing and merchandising for North America.

Concept
YooHoo & Friends is based on a highly successful range of collectible toys and other licensed goods including social expressions, stationery, apparel, bedding, books and more that feature rare or endangered animals from around the world. The concept embraces the ‘green’ message in line with global trends on conservation. It is YooHoo & Friends’ mission to deliver this ‘green’ message around the world.

Characterized by their big-eyes and bushy tails, there are five key characters: YooHoo the brave Bush Baby Monkey, Pammee the courageous Fennec Fox, Chewoo the trouble-making Red Squirrel, Lemmee the grumpy Lemur and Roodee the clever Capuchin Monkey, along with more than 50 additional characters – each of whom brings along a new destination to explore.

YooHoo & Friends was created by Aurora World Corp. and has sold more than 34 million units worldwide. There are more than 4,000 SKUs including social expressions, stationery, apparel, bedding, books and more that feature rare or endangered animals from around the world. YooHoo & Friends was the featured toy in McDonald’s Happy Meals throughout Europe in 2013.

The YooHoo & Friends animated series consists of two seasons of 52×11 minute episodes each and airs in 40 countries worldwide.

Available
Co-production, finance, and distribution for all media, licensing and merchandising in North America.