''This is Daniel Cook.'' is a Canadian children's television series created by

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and Blair Powers and produced by Toronto's Marblemedia and Sinking Ship Productions in association with

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and TVO. It is shown in Canada on

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, and

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. The series also aired on the

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in the United States, in between programs in the mid-to-late 2000s.

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aired the show as a full 30-minute program. The series also aired on Disney in Japan,

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in the United Arab Emirates and on

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(in Australia). The show is about a 7-year-old boy (age 7 to 8 in the first seasons but age 9 in the second season) named Daniel Cook who learns new things and shares his experiences and adventures with other kids. For example, he learns about

taekwondo ''Taekwondo'', ''Tae Kwon Do'' or ''Taekwon-Do'' (; ko, 태권도/跆拳道 ) is a Korean martial arts, Korean form of martial arts involving punching and kicking techniques, with emphasis on head-height kicks, spinning jump kicks, and fast k ...

gymnastics Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, dedication and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, s ...

, and animals. He also visits a fire station, a

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, and more. The show was filmed in

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and

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. Every episode is six minutes long, while the half-hour shows consist of five six-minute episodes. The series has been sold by Distribution360 to over eighty-five countries worldwide, and dubbed into fourteen languages. The series has also launched a six-volume book series distributed by Kids Can Press and produced by marblemedia. Five DVDs have also been released featuring episodes from the series. There is another television series that complements ''This is Daniel Cook.'' called '' This is Emily Yeung.'' It premiered on

in September 2006. Another follow-up called ''This is Scarlett and Isaiah.'', It premiered on

in September 2013. Production was completed in April 2006.

Episodes

Season 1

#This is Daniel Cook drawing a dragon. #This is Daniel Cook at the

market Market is a term used to describe concepts such as: *Market (economics), system in which parties engage in transactions according to supply and demand *Market economy *Marketplace, a physical marketplace or public market Geography *Märket, an ...

. #This is Daniel Cook feeding

giraffe The giraffe is a large African hoofed mammal belonging to the genus ''Giraffa''. It is the tallest living terrestrial animal and the largest ruminant on Earth. Traditionally, giraffes were thought to be one species, '' Giraffa camelopardal ...

s. #This is Daniel Cook building a

sidewalk A sidewalk (North American English), pavement (British English), footpath in Australia, India, New Zealand and Ireland, or footway, is a path along the side of a street, highway, terminals. Usually constructed of concrete, pavers, brick, stone ...

. #This is Daniel Cook learning

Tae Kwon Do ''Taekwondo'', ''Tae Kwon Do'' or ''Taekwon-Do'' (; ko, 태권도/跆拳道 ) is a Korean martial arts, Korean form of martial arts involving punching and kicking techniques, with emphasis on head-height kicks, spinning jump kicks, and fast k ...

. #This is Daniel Cook making plasticine art. #This is Daniel Cook doing gymnastics. #This is Daniel Cook at the zoo. #This is Daniel Cook learning yo-yo tricks. #This is Daniel Cook tasting new fruits. #This is Daniel Cook creating a

story Story or stories may refer to: Common uses * Story, a narrative (an account of imaginary or real people and events) ** Short story, a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting * Story (American English), or storey (British ...

. #This is Daniel Cook with the

Famous People Players Famous People Players is a black light puppetry theatre company. It is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and tours worldwide. It is a non-profit organization that employs people with physical and intellectual disabilities. Those individuals share ...

. #This is Daniel Cook in a rainforest. #This is Daniel Cook playing

lawn bowling Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a "jack" or "kitty". It is played on a bowling green, which may be flat (for "flat-gre ...

. #This is Daniel Cook making chocolates. #This is Daniel Cook painting a giraffe. #This is Daniel Cook at the library. #This is Daniel Cook training a puppy. #This is Daniel Cook exercising. #This is Daniel Cook making

ice cream Ice cream is a sweetened frozen food typically eaten as a snack or dessert. It may be made from milk or cream and is flavoured with a sweetener, either sugar or an alternative, and a spice, such as cocoa or vanilla, or with fruit such as ...

. #This is Daniel Cook doing magic. #This is Daniel Cook at the

Science Centre A science museum is a museum devoted primarily to science. Older science museums tended to concentrate on static displays of objects related to natural history, paleontology, geology, industry and industrial machinery, etc. Modern trends in m ...

. #This is Daniel Cook at a pool. #This is Daniel Cook hiking. #This is Daniel Cook making an

apple pie An apple pie is a fruit pie in which the principal filling ingredient is apples. The earliest printed recipe is from England. Apple pie is often served with whipped cream, ice cream ("apple pie à la mode"), or cheddar cheese. It is gene ...

. #This is Daniel Cook playing

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair of matching drumsticks ...

. #This is Daniel Cook at the fire station. #This is Daniel Cook learning about ponds. #This is Daniel Cook learning about electricity. #This is Daniel Cook doing ballet. #This is Daniel Cook making paper. #This is Daniel Cook at the farm. #This is Daniel Cook

composting Compost is a mixture of ingredients used as plant fertilizer and to improve soil's physical, chemical and biological properties. It is commonly prepared by decomposing plant, food waste, recycling organic materials and manure. The resulting ...

. #This is Daniel Cook learning to

breakdance Breakdancing, also called breaking or b-boying/b-girling, is an athletic style of street dance originating from the African American and Puerto Rican communities in the United States. While diverse in the amount of variation available in ...

. #This is Daniel Cook making

cookie A cookie is a baked or cooked snack or dessert that is typically small, flat and sweet. It usually contains flour, sugar, egg, and some type of oil, fat, or butter. It may include other ingredients such as raisins, oats, chocolate chips, nu ...

s. #This is Daniel Cook taking pictures. #This is Daniel Cook learning about

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning the North Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via a land bridg ...

. #This is Daniel Cook learning to milk a cow. #This is Daniel Cook

tap dancing Tap dance is a form of dance characterized by using the sounds of tap shoes striking the floor as a form of percussion. Two major variations on tap dance exist: rhythm (jazz) tap and Broadway tap. Broadway tap focuses on dance; it is widely perfo ...

. #This is Daniel Cook learning to fly a plane. #This is Daniel Cook making a clay dragon. #This is Daniel Cook at

Medieval Times In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire a ...

. #This is Daniel Cook learning about

dinosaur Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic period, between 243 and 233.23 million years ago (mya), although the exact origin and timing of the evolution of dinosaurs is t ...

s. #This is Daniel Cook canoeing. #This is Daniel Cook making pizza. #This is Daniel Cook learning about poetry. #This is Daniel Cook at the police station. #This is Daniel Cook riding a horse. #This is Daniel Cook at the dentist. #This is Daniel Cook making a gingerbread house. #This is Daniel Cook making a book. #This is Daniel Cook at the

art gallery An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed. In Western cultures from the mid-15th century, a gallery was any long, narrow covered passage along a wall, first used in the sense of a place for art in the 1590s. The lon ...

. #This is Daniel Cook learning about beekeeping. #This is Daniel Cook

busking Street performance or busking is the act of performing in public places for gratuities. In many countries, the rewards are generally in the form of money but other gratuities such as food, drink or gifts may be given. Street performance is pr ...

. #This is Daniel Cook learning to figure skate. #This is Daniel Cook

clown A clown is a person who performs comedy and arts in a state of open-mindedness using physical comedy, typically while wearing distinct makeup or costuming and reversing folkway-norms. History The most ancient clowns have been found in ...

ing. #This is Daniel Cook learning about

train In rail transport, a train (from Old French , from Latin , "to pull, to draw") is a series of connected vehicles that run along a railway track and transport people or freight. Trains are typically pulled or pushed by locomotives (often ...

s. #This is Daniel Cook learning about raptors. #This is Daniel Cook visiting a doctor. #This is Daniel Cook

rock climbing Rock climbing is a sport in which participants climb up, across, or down natural rock formations. The goal is to reach the summit of a formation or the endpoint of a usually pre-defined route without falling. Rock climbing is a physically a ...

. #This is Daniel Cook making his show. #This is Daniel Cook at a street festival. #This is Daniel Cook with the

Earth Rangers Earth Rangers (French: ''Éco Héros'') is a Canadian registered charity focused on environmental education and conservation for children and families. The goal of the organization is to educate children and their families about environmental issu ...

. #This is Daniel Cook

bowling Bowling is a target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls a ball toward pins (in pin bowling) or another target (in target bowling). The term ''bowling'' usually refers to pin bowling (most commonly ten-pin bowling), though ...

. #This is Daniel Cook on a tall ship.

Season 2

#This is Daniel Cook

dog sled A dog sled or dog sleigh is a sled pulled by one or more sled dogs used to travel over ice and through snow. Numerous types of sleds are used, depending on their function. They can be used for dog sled racing. Traditionally in Greenland and th ...

ding. #This is Daniel Cook making maple syrup. #This is Daniel Cook

downhill skiing Alpine skiing, or downhill skiing, is the pastime of sliding down snow-covered slopes on skis with fixed-heel bindings, unlike other types of skiing ( cross-country, Telemark, or ski jumping), which use skis with free-heel bindings. Whether ...

. #This is Daniel Cook

toboggan A toboggan is a simple sled traditionally used by children. It is also a traditional form of transport used by the Innu and Cree of northern Canada. In modern times, it is used on snow to carry one or more people (often children) down a hill ...

ing. #This is Daniel Cook at a winter festival. #This is Daniel Cook baking a

birthday cake A birthday cake is a cake eaten as part of a birthday celebration. Birthday cakes are often layer cakes with frosting served with small lit candles on top representing the celebrant's age. Variations include cupcakes, cake pops, pastries, an ...

. #This is Daniel Cook curling. #This is Daniel Cook building a road. #This is Daniel Cook getting an

eye exam An eye examination is a series of tests performed to assess vision and ability to focus on and discern objects. It also includes other tests and examinations pertaining to the eyes. Eye examinations are primarily performed by an optometrist, ...

. #This is Daniel Cook carving a

pumpkin A pumpkin is a vernacular term for mature winter squash of species and varieties in the genus ''Cucurbita'' that has culinary and cultural significance but no agreed upon botanical or scientific meaning. The term ''pumpkin'' is sometimes use ...

. #This is Daniel Cook trick-or-treating. #This is Daniel Cook making felt art. #This is Daniel Cook learning to conduct. #This is Daniel Cook painting with

watercolours Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to ...

. #This is Daniel Cook with a veterinarian. #This is Daniel Cook setting up an aquarium. #This is Daniel Cook making a Valentine's Day card. #This is Daniel Cook learning about the desert. #This is Daniel Cook decorating eggs. #This is Daniel Cook making a birdhouse. #This is Daniel Cook making a self-portrait. #This is Daniel Cook at a recycling plant. #This is Daniel Cook go-carting. #This is Daniel Cook creating a paper mache monster. #This is Daniel Cook writing a song. #This is Daniel Cook learning about dog guides. #This is Daniel Cook making an animal totem. #This is Daniel Cook making a puppet. #This is Daniel Cook creating

stop motion animation Stop motion is an animated filmmaking technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they will appear to exhibit independent motion or change when the series of frames ...

. #This is Daniel Cook making a holiday ornament. #This is Daniel Cook in a marching band. #This is Daniel Cook making

candy cane A candy cane is a cane-shaped stick candy often associated with Christmastide, as well as Saint Nicholas Day. It is traditionally white with red stripes and flavored with peppermint, but they also come in a variety of other flavors and colors. ...

s. #This is Daniel Cook making soap. #This is Daniel Cook meeting an elephant. #This is Daniel Cook on a safari. #This is Daniel Cook trying new vegetables. #This is Daniel Cook playing baseball. #This is Daniel Cook learning about

butterflies Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises ...

. #This is Daniel Cook learning about

whale Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals. As an informal and colloquial grouping, they correspond to large members of the infraorder Cetacea, i.e. all cetaceans apart from dolphins and ...

s. #This is Daniel Cook in a helicopter. #This is Daniel Cook at a waterfall. #This is Daniel Cook with a zookeeper. #This is Daniel Cook drawing a turtle. #This is Daniel Cook building a robot. #This is Daniel Cook singing jazz. #This is Daniel Cook making a Yule log. #This is Daniel Cook

disco dancing Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the 1970s from the United States' urban nightlife scene. Its sound is typified by four-on-the-floor beats, syncopated basslines, string sections, brass and horns, electric p ...

. #This is Daniel Cook at a

water park A water park (or waterpark, water world) is an amusement park that features water play areas such as swimming pools, water slides, splash pads, water playgrounds, and lazy rivers, as well as areas for floating, bathing, swimming, and other bare ...

. #This is Daniel Cook riding in a

hot air balloon A hot air balloon is a lighter-than-air aircraft consisting of a bag, called an envelope, which contains heated air. Suspended beneath is a gondola or wicker basket (in some long-distance or high-altitude balloons, a capsule), which carries ...

. #This is Daniel Cook inventing a toy. #This is Daniel Cook learning yoga. #This is Daniel Cook digging for dinosaur bones. #This is Daniel Cook camping. #This is Daniel Cook exploring a

cave A cave or cavern is a natural void in the ground, specifically a space large enough for a human to enter. Caves often form by the weathering of rock and often extend deep underground. The word ''cave'' can refer to smaller openings such as sea ...

. #This is Daniel Cook on an Eco Adventure. #This is Daniel Cook learning about visual effects. #This is Daniel Cook learning about

space Space is the boundless three-dimensional extent in which objects and events have relative position and direction. In classical physics, physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions, although modern physicists usually consi ...

. #This is Daniel Cook at the airport. #This is Daniel Cook fishing. #This is Daniel Cook

whale watching Whale watching is the practice of observing whales and dolphins (cetaceans) in their natural habitat. Whale watching is mostly a recreational activity (cf. birdwatching), but it can also serve scientific and/or educational purposes.Hoyt, E. 2 ...

. #This is Daniel Cook exploring a beach. #This is Daniel Cook studying rocks. #This is Daniel Cook on a roller coaster. #This is Daniel Cook at a

theme park An amusement park is a park that features various attractions, such as rides and games, as well as other events for entertainment purposes. A theme park is a type of amusement park that bases its structures and attractions around a central ...

. #This is Daniel Cook learning about stunts. #This is Daniel Cook learning about

fish Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of ...

Soundtrack

In early 2007, The Children's Group released a soundtrack of ''This is Daniel Cook.'' on CD, which was called ''Here We Are!''. It features the show's theme and the music used.

Awards and nominations

References