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Parents and children now have the chance to further their enjoyment of Waybuloo, the new pre-school series on CBeebies, with the launch of Waybuloo Magazine, the pre-school title that aims to help develop children's social and emotional learning.

Developed by ´óÏó´«Ã½ Magazines, the UK's leading publisher of pre-school magazines, and edited by children's educational specialist Stephanie Cooper, Waybuloo is the first pre-school magazine to help children learn about feelings and understand emotions. Through their engagement with De Li, Nok Tok, Lau Lau and Yojojo (the 'Piplings') in the land of Nara, the magazine aims to help a child's development in a number of ways:

• Feeling Good – helping children to understand how to care about themselves, their world and other people;
• Communication – having fun sharing stories, making choices, thinking and talking about feelings and emotions;
• Being Creative – confidently making things for themselves and others;
• Finding Out – discovering more about things in the natural world and learning to appreciate them;
• Physical Development – keeping fit and healthy with the Piplings, eating fruit & vegetables and trying yogo (a simple, gentle form of yoga).

A new Waybuloo online game, Flight of the Narabug, developed to celebrate the magazine launch, is another great way for children to extend their enjoyment of the series and magazine. Children can play with De Li and her 'Narabug', helping to collect strawberries to share with the other Piplings. In addition, the game will give young children the opportunity to learn and develop their computer skills.

Stephanie Cooper, Editor of Waybuloo Magazine says, "Understanding feelings and emotions is a key part of a young child’s development and Waybuloo Magazine helps stimulate this understanding to encourage happy, confident children. Each issue of the magazine will focus on positive themes such as kindness, sharing, patience and being a good listener."

Parents will be given a special 'sticker pouch' with each issue of Waybuloo, which will allow them to reward their child with a wearable sticker. Other stickers can be used on a Waybuloo 'reward chart' which will be based on a different emotion each issue.

Flight of the Narabug launches on 17th June at with Waybuloo Magazine, priced £2.35 hitting newsstands on 24th June.

NOTES TO EDITORS
About Waybuloo
Waybuloo, the new 100 x 20 minute series is a unique mix of animation and live action. Waybuloo is a highly innovative approach to pre-school programming focussing on children's emotions. It transports children to Nara, a live-action world inhabited by adorable animated characters called Piplings who embody a range of emotions such as Love, Wisdom, Happiness and Harmony.

Waybuloo was commissioned by Michael Carrington, Controller, CBeebies. The executive producer for the ´óÏó´«Ã½ is Sarah Colclough and the production's executive producers are Nigel Pickard, Vanessa Hill, Angus Fletcher, Steven DeNure and Beth Stevenson. The series originated from an original idea created by Dan Good (Absolutely Cuckoo) who is a creative consultant on the series.

About Waybuloo Magazine
Waybuloo Magazine, the fortnightly title published by ´óÏó´«Ã½ Magazines will launch on 24th June 2009. The title will be targeted at 3 to 5 year olds and have a cover price of £2.35. ´óÏó´«Ã½ Magazines has gained the licence to publish the new title from RDF Kids, licensees of the new pre-school show Waybuloo, which launched on CBeebies in May 2009.

About Flight of the Narabug
Flight of the Narabug has been developed by RDF Media for the launch of Waybuloo Magazine and launches online at on 17th June.

About Stephanie Cooper
Stephanie worked for 8 years in education, specialising in the early years. She was a teacher in two London boroughs before becoming deputy head teacher of a large primary school in South London. After two years as an advisory teacher for literacy, she spent two further years writing books for parents as well as writing for magazines and newspapers. Stephanie is now Group Editor of ´óÏó´«Ã½ Pre-school magazines at ´óÏó´«Ã½ Worldwide.
About ´óÏó´«Ã½ Magazines.

´óÏó´«Ã½ Magazines is the magazine publishing division of ´óÏó´«Ã½ Worldwide, the main commercial arm and wholly owned subsidiary of the ´óÏó´«Ã½. It publishes over 40 ´óÏó´«Ã½ consumer titles, including Top Gear, Good Food, Gardeners' World and Radio Times and many children's titles including CBeebies Weekly, Dr Who Adventures and Match of the Day.

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