This animated series is based on Marc Brown's best-selling books about Arthur Read, an eight-year-old aardvark, his sister D.W., and their family and friends. In "Arthur and the Real Mr. Ratburn," Arthur and his friends get a new 3rd grade teacher, about whom they have heard terrible, horrible stories. They become detectives in order to discover if some of the rumors are true. In "Arthur's Spelling Trubble," Arthur unwittingly become's his class' representative in the school spellathon.