Forest Friends

I'm finally found something on YouTube that will touch many hearts of many kids.

This 12-minute series of cartoons, Forest Friends as it's called, is a marvel of touching moments. The synopsis is that when a huge brush fire drives animals out of their forest, animals including foxes, mice, squirrels, bears, etc., evacuate. The time comes for the animals to cohabit in a new part of the forest.

Anyway, the series revolves around 7 animal kids, most of whom are around the age of 10, who get to know all about what school is, what helping others in need means to them, strange stories, cooperation, and how it's important to get along with each other. Those 7 animal protagonists are: Jeff the squirrel, Naomi the mouse, Archilles the wild boar, Danny the fox, Gladys the bear, and twin rabbits Martin and Zoe. In every episode, they will learn something new, and all together they will understand how to deal with whatever situation they're in. They also have mentor, a teacher, who is a tree, named The Old Oak, who treats the animals like they're his students, and his son is a small cherry tree named Titan, who is also a student. Their constant foes, of course, are two rats named Rascal and Ratasha Rapsy, who love to make trouble for the animals. Of course, the animals are always one step ahead. There were 52 episodes of the series.

Well, that's all I can say about this educational program... however, I do have evidence that a number of these episodes, I'd say around 55%, are in fact on YouTube.