Tumble Leaf

Tumble Leaf, a 2014 Amazon Studios original series, is a stop-motion animated series for preschool-aged children. Created by animator Drew Hodges (Saturday Night Live, Community) and stop-motion studio Bix Pix Entertainment, Tumble Leaf features an anthropomorphic blue fox named Fig and his caterpillar friend Stick (both voiced by child actor Christopher Downs), along with other residents of the island of Tumble Leaf, helping preschoolers learn basic science lessons through playful examples. Additional regular characters include Maple (Brooke Wolloff), Rutabaga (Jodi Downs), Hedge (Landon Clay), Pine (Addie Zintel), and Ginkgo (Gary Littman). Each episode consists of two 11-minute stories revolving around Fig learning the mechanics of various items discovered in a special room on board the abandoned shipwreck where he resides.

The show was part of the first round of television pilots ordered by Amazon in 2013 for its Amazon Instant Video service, and was officially picked up for its first 13-episode season on May 29, 2013. The show's first six episodes premiered exclusively on the Amazon Instant Video service on May 23, 2014, and the remaining seven episodes of season one premiered on September 5, 2014. A re-dubbed German version premiered for Amazon's German Prime customers on August 20, 2014.