Cynopsis Kids 2nd Annual !magination Awards took place today at the Yale Club in New York City bringing together the top creative and business minds in kids entertainment.Special honors were given to Margaret Loesch, founder\/CEO of Hub Network; Elie Dekel, president of Saban Brands; children’s singer\/songwriter Laurie Berkner; and Cartoon Network for its Stop Bullying Speak Up campaign.<\/p>\n
Two very special anniversaries in children’s entertainment were acknowledged:Babar the Elephant, who has charmed kids and families for 80 years and Clifford the Big Red Dog, who celebrates his 50th year.<\/p>\n
Here’s a complete list of the !magination Awards winners and finalists:<\/p>\n
App (Educational)
\nWinner: Nickelodeon – Bubble Guppies: Animal School Day
\nHonorable Mentions:<\/p>\n
Cupcake Digital\u00a0 Wubbzy’s Fire Engine Adventure
\nDisney Publishing Worldwide – Sofia the First: Story Theater
\nLawless Entertainment – Suzy’s Zoo
\nNancy O’Dell Enterprises – Little Ashby: Star Reporter
\nOceanhouse Media, Inc.-\u00a0 A Whale of a Tale!: All About Porpoises, Dolphins, and Whales
\nPBS KIDS – DANIEL TIGER’S NEIGHBORHOOD: Play at Home with Daniel
\nSprout The Good Night Show: Sandy Stories<\/p>\n
App (Entertainment)
\nWinner: Budge Studios – Chuggington Traintastic Adventures
\nHonorable Mentions:<\/p>\n
Cartoon Network – Cartoon Network
\nCupcake Digital – Wubbzy’s The Night Before Christmas
\nLima Sky – Doodle Jump
\nNickelodeon – Nick Jr. Draw & Play
\nRandom House Children’s Books – Barbie Color, Sparkle and Style!<\/p>\n
Tablet-Based App (Educational)
\nWinner: Scholastic Corporation – Storia
\nHonorable Mentions:<\/p>\n
Disney ABC Television Group – Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Road Rally Appisode
\nLuca Lashes LLC – Luca Lashes Series
\nmarblemedia – Skatoony: Skadoodle
\nNational Geographic Kids – National Geographic Kids Tablet Magazine
\nThirteen\/WNET – Cyberchase 3D Builder<\/p>\n
Digital Marketing Campaign
\nWinner: Saban Brands – Launches Vortexx on The CW
\nHonorable Mentions:<\/p>\n
Cartoon Network – Level Up Choose Your Battle Experience
\nDisney – Little Mermaid
\nSprout\u00a0 A Lot Happens When You Sprout<\/p>\n
eBook
\nWinner: Auryn, Inc. – Where Do Balloons Go? An Uplifting Mystery
\nHonorable Mentions:<\/p>\n
Bento Box Interactive – Sweet Pickles
\nLuca Lashes, LLC – Luca Lashes Series
\nMibblio – Mibblio
\nRandom House Children’s Books – The Cat in the Hat Know A Lot About That! Color & Create
\nStoryToys – The Little Mermaid<\/p>\n
Educational Series\/Special Parent\/Teacher Curriculum
\nWinner: The Jim Henson Company – Sid The Science Kid
\nHonorable Mentions:<\/p>\n
Sprout – Noodle & Doodle
\nThe Mother Company – Ruby’s Studio: The Friendship Show<\/p>\n
Feature Film Based on a Book
\nWinner: Universal and HP – Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax
\nHonorable Mentions:<\/p>\n
Dune Entertainment\/Color Force\/20th Century Fox – Diary of A Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
\nStudio Ghibli\/Disney – The Secret World of Arrietty (based on The Borrowers)
\nWorking Title Films\/Universal Pictures – Big Miracle (based on the book Freeing the Whales)<\/p>\n
Game Based on a Series
\nWinner: Thirteen\/WNET – Cyberchase: Buzz & Delete Save the Day
\nHonorable Mentions:<\/p>\n
DHX Media – UMIGO
\nScholastic – I SPY Super Challenger for LeapFrog
\nSprout – The Chica Show: Mr. & Mrs. C’s Melody Maker<\/p>\n
Interstitial Series
\nWinner (tie): Nickelodeon – Team Umizoomi Curriculum Interstitials
\nWGBH\/Seftel Productions – The Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers
\nHonorable Mentions:<\/p>\n
Beeswax Production – Recess Stories: Life on the Playground
\nDisney Channels Worldwide – Disney 365
\nNickelodeon – Kids Around the World
\nTHIRTEEN\/WNET – Oh Noah!<\/p>\n
Kids 2-11 Series
\nWinner: Corus Entertainment\/NELVANA Ltd. – Franklin and Friends
\nHonorable Mentions<\/p>\n
Cartoon Network – Adventure Time
\nHub Network – Littlest Pet Shop
\nHub Network – R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour: The Series
\nHub Network – Transformers Prime
\nNickelodeon – NFL Rush Zone: Season of the Guardians
\nSaban Brands – Power Rangers Super Samurai<\/p>\n
Kids 2-11 Special\/TV Movie
\nWinner: Hallmark Channel – Jingle and Bell’s Christmas Star
\nHonorable Mentions:<\/p>\n
Cartoon Network – Stop Bullying: Speak Up
\nDisney Channels Worldwide – Sofia the First: Once Upon a Princess
\nHallmark Channel – hoops&yoyo’s Haunted Halloween
\nScholastic Media – WordGirl: The Rise of Miss Power<\/p>\n
Marketing Campaign for a Toy\/Game
\nWinner: Nickelodeon\/Playmates – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Toy Launch
\nHonorable Mentions:<\/p>\n
Hasbro – Scrabble’s Catch Phrase game campaign featuring Neil Patrick Harris
\nMattel – Hot Wheels For Real X Games campaign
\nMattel\/Peterson Milla Hooks – See What Happens When You Play With Barbie<\/p>\n
Marketing Campaign for TV Series
\nWinner: Hub Network – My Little Pony Friendship is Magic Royal Wedding
\nHonorable Mentions:<\/p>\n
Astral Media, Inc – Sofia the First\u00a0 Series Launchf
\nCartoon Network – Adventure Time: Season 4 Campaign Launch
\nNickelodeon – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
\nPBS – Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood<\/p>\n
Marketing\/PR Campaign for TV Special\/TV Movie
\nWinner: Nickelodeon – Dora Fantastic Gymnastics Adventure Campaign
\nHonorable Mentions:<\/p>\n
Disney – Sofia the First: Once Upon A Princess
\nNickelodeon – Peter Rabbit’s Christmas Tale
\nNickelodeon – Turtles Vs Foot Campaign for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at ComicCon 2102
\nPBS – PBS Kids’ The Cat In The Hat Knows A Lot About Christmas! Campaign<\/p>\n
New Series
\nWinner: American Greetings – Care Bears: Welcome To Care-A-Lot
\nHonorable Mentions:<\/p>\n
Disney – Dog With A Blog
\nLitton Entertainment – Recipe Rehab
\nLitton Entertainment – Sea Rescue with Sam Champion
\nLoma Media\/EA Sports – EA Sports Game Time
\nNickelodeon – NFL Rush Zone: Season of the Guardians<\/p>\n
Preschool Series
\nWinner: The Fred Rogers Company – Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood
\nHonorable Mentions:<\/p>\n
Awol – Kioka
\nDHX Media – Yo Gabba Gabba!
\nLittle Airplane – The Small Potatoes
\nNELVANA Ltd. \/ Corus Entertainment – Mike the Knight
\nPortfolio Entertainment – The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!<\/p>\n
Preschool Special
\nWinner: Corus Entertainment – Handy Manny and the Seven Tools
\nHonorable Mentions:<\/p>\n
Brown Bag Films – Doc McStuffins Boo Hoo To You Halloween Special
\nNickelodeon – Peter Rabbit’s Christmas Tale
\nPortfolio Entertainment – The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About Christmas<\/p>\n
Promotional Campaign
\nWinner: Disney\u00a0 Disney Media – Subway
\nHonorable Mentions:<\/p>\n
Cartoon Network – Cartoon Network @ Atlantis 2012
\nDisney – Disney Media Invisilign Teen
\nSprout – The Chica Show Launch Campaign<\/p>\n
Pro-social Campaign
\nWinner: Disney Channels Worldwide – Disney Friends for Change
\nHonorable Mentions:<\/p>\n
Disney – Make Your Mark
\nNickelodeon – The Big Help\u00a0 Let’s Move Event in London w Michelle Obama
\nSaban Brands – Power Rangers Super Samurai emPOWER Halloween Safety Campaign
\nSprout – Sprout’s Kindness Counts Be Kind To Yourself Campaign<\/p>\n
Social Media Campaign
\nWinner: Cartoon Network – Cartoon Network’s 20th Birthday
\nHonorable Mentions:<\/p>\n
Bully Movie, Grassroots Twitter Campaign
\nChild’s Play Communications – Peppa Pig, Social Media Campaign
\nLionsgate – Hunger Games, Social Media Campaign
\nNickelodeon – Kids’ Choice Awards<\/p>\n
Song for a TV Series\/Special\/Movie
\nWinner: Sprout – The Chica Show Theme Song
\nHonorable Mentions:<\/p>\n
DHX Media Ltd – UMIGO
\nPortfolio Entertainment – The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About Christmas!
\nSaban Brands – Power Rangers Song
\nSmithsonian Network -The Titanoboa Song<\/p>\n
Sweepstakes\/Contest Campaign
\nWinner: Threadless & Disney – Design a t-shirt inspired by Disney Villains
\nHonorable Mentions:<\/p>\n
Cartoon Network – Mattel Hot Wheels 20th Anniversary Sweepstakes
\nDisney Media – Nintendo (Wii U Campaign)
\nHub Network – The Hub’s Pup-ularity Contest
\nRadio Disney – The Next Big Thing (N.B.T.)
\nSprout – The Chica Show Sweepstakes<\/p>\n
TV Series Based on Books
\nWinner: Hub Network – R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour: The Series
\nHonorable Mentions:<\/p>\n
Big Bad Boo – 1001 Nights
\nHallmark Channel – Jingle & Bell’s Christmas Star
\nNELVANA Ltd. \/ Corus Entertainment – Scaredy Squirrel
\nNELVANA Ltd. \/ TeamTO – Babar and the Adventures of Babou
\nPortfolio Entertainment Inc. – The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!<\/p>\n
Tweens 9-14 Series
\nWinner: Litton Entertainment – Born to Explore With Richard Wiese
\nHonorable Mentions:<\/p>\n
Bento Box Entertainment\/20th Century Fox – Bob’s Burgers
\nDisney ABC Television Group – Phineas and Ferb
\nHub Network – “Dan Vs.”
\nLitton Entertainment – Ocean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin
\nLuke Nola & Friends – Let’s Get Inventin’ New Zealand
\nmarblemedia – Spatalot<\/p>\n
Tweens 9-14 Special\/TV Movie
\nWinner: ABC Family – The Mistle-Tones
\nHonorable Mentions:<\/p>\n
Disney Channels Worldwide – Disney Channel Original Movie, Radio Rebel
\nNickelodeon – Nick News with Linda Ellerbee: Kids Pick the President: The Candidates<\/p>\n
Video Game for a TV Series\/Special
\nWinner: Microsoft and Edelman – Kinect Sesame Street TV
\nHonorable Mentions:<\/p>\n
Cartoon Network – Mutant Fridge Mayhem
\nCSE – NBAHoopTroop.com-Hoop Troop Escape
\nMicrosoft and Edelman\u00a0 – “Kinect Nat Geo TV”
\nScholastic Media – The Magic School Bus: Oceans for Leapster Explorer<\/p>\n
Website for TV Series\/Special
\nWinner: WGBH Educational Foundation – Design Squad Nation
\nHonorable Mentions:<\/p>\n
9 Story Entertainment & Kratt Brothers – Wild Kratts Website Cynopsis Kids 2nd Annual !magination Awards took place today at the Yale Club in New York City bringing together the top creative and business minds in kids entertainment.Special honors were given to Margaret Loesch, founder\/CEO of Hub Network; Elie Dekel, president of Saban Brands; children’s singer\/songwriter Laurie Berkner; and Cartoon Network for its Stop Bullying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSd8M-9Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDisney Channels Worldwide and Walt Disney Records – AustinAndAllyVideo.com\/Vevo
\nLittle Airplane\/Disney – Meet the Small Potatoes Custom Potato Builder Website
\nRandom House Children’s Books – PBS Kids The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!
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