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A new animated Children's series that teaches social, self help, educational, healthy living skills, and how to play with others.

Puz™ Knows How® is a multi-media program designed to teach children a variety of social skills, self care skills, lessons in independence, and basic academic skills.

Through our test screenings, we know that general education children, as well as their parents and teachers, will benefit from the program.  Furthermore, since the lessons are based on the same social and self care lessons used in classrooms to benefit children on the Autism Spectrum, Puz™ Knows How® will help the growing population of children diagnosed daily.

Puz™ Knows How® has the chance to bring all of this to families everywhere through international distributor partnerships, but we simply need help.

Primarily, our request for help is focused on completing a 60-minute Puz™ Knows How® pilot, which is the minimum content requirement distributors of Video-On-Demand and/or DVD media will accept to begin the distribution process.

However, if through your generosity, we are able to go above and beyond our campaign goal, what we plan to do with the surplus is to continue developing as much content for Puz™ Knows How® as we can.

This includes more e-books, educational mobile apps, offering helpful articles and videos for parents and teachers on our website, translating our material into multiple languages, and, of coarse, more Puz™ Knows How® videos that kids can laugh and learn with everyday.

We currently have a total of 26 stories that we have scripted for video.  With 26 shows, we can get to another goal of ours, which is to get this show on TV so that children may experience the fun of learning with Puz, without having to purchase a DVD or rent it through Video-On-Demand.

If we are able to produce all 26 episodes, we have had offers to broadcast and distribute the show on television markets around the world and in multiple languages.

Of coarse, producing that many episodes will be expensive.  We estimate that each episode costs approximately $189,000.00.  Therefore a full season of Puz™ Knows How® (26 episodes) would cost a little over $4.9 million.  In comparison to other children’s educational programming, like Sesame Street which cost approximately $8 million to produce the first season in 1969 (about $48 million in today’s standards), Puz™ Knows How® is relatively cheap to produce.

Really, it all starts with your help, which we greatly appreciate.

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Funding Unsuccessful This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal on May 3, 2012.

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  • Pledge $15 or more

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    PDF download of the 4 e-books that the Puz Knows How pilot is based upon; 1) Puz Knows How To Use Nice Hands When I’m Mad, 2) Puz Knows How To Clean A Runny Nose, 3) Puz Knows How To Follow Directions, 4) Puz Knows How To Find Words Beginning With A. These e-books will also include special edition Visual Queue sheets that will help your child to remember the valuable lessons found in each story. You will also receive special thanks on the Our Sponsors page of puzknowshow.com.

    Estimated delivery: Aug 2012
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    Download of 3 educational Mobile Apps formatted for iPhone and iPad devices, and all previous reward tiers. With these fun and engaging mobile apps, you can take photos with your mobile device and load them into the game. Your child will be able to learn and identify familiar faces, colors and beginning word sounds.

    Estimated delivery: Aug 2012
  • Pledge $60 or more

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    HD download of the completed pilot episode with extras, the digital pilot soundtrack, and all previous reward tiers!

    Estimated delivery: Oct 2012
  • Pledge $120 or more

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    The Puz Knows How “I’m Really Smart And So Are You” T-shirt, an original "Puz Knows How" poster (24”x36”), special thanks in the show credits, and all previous reward tiers. (These items are exclusive to the campaign and will be shipped for free in the US. Please add an additional $10 to your pledge for international shipping)

    Estimated delivery: Oct 2012
  • Pledge $250 or more

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    Special edition DVD or Blu-Ray of the pilot episode, "Puz Knows How" poster autographed by the cast and crew, and all previous reward tiers. (These items are exclusive to the campaign and will be shipped for free in the US. Please add an additional $10 to your pledge for international shipping)

    Estimated delivery: Oct 2012
  • Pledge $500 or more

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    Exclusive printed and autographed version of the Puz Knows How e-books (filled with 100+ full color pages, Visual Queue inserts, concept art, production script, and more!), and all previous reward tiers.

    Estimated delivery: Oct 2012
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    An original and autographed digital cell frame from the pilot episode (suitable for framing), and all previous reward tiers.

    Estimated delivery: Oct 2012
  • Pledge $5,000 or more

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    A special edition plush Puz doll (this item is exclusive to this campaign), a digital caricature portrait of YOU or a FAMILY MEMBER with PUZ (suitable for framing), designed by the show's artist, and all previous reward tiers.

    Estimated delivery: Oct 2012
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    Your caricature comes to life as an EXTRA in the series pilot, and all previous reward tiers.

    Estimated delivery: Oct 2012