Thunderbird's Molly of Denali wins Peabody Award

VANCOUVER — Thunderbird Entertainment Group’s kids and family division, Atomic Cartoons, announced Wednesday its animated series Molly of Denali is the 2020 Peabody Award winner in the children’s and youth category. Co-produced by WGBH Boston and Atomic Cartoons for PBS Kids and CBC Kids, Molly of Denali follows the adventures of a young Indigenous girl, who has cultural heritage from three Athabascan groups, as she helps her parents run the Denali Trading Post in interior Alaska. Since its premiere in 2019, Molly of Denali has been recognized as the first nationally distributed children’s series in the United States to feature...