This animated series is based on Marc Brown's best-selling books aboutArthur Read, an eight-year-old aardvark, his sister D.W., and their f amily 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 ifsome of the rumors are true. In "Arthur's Spelling Trubble," Arthur u nwittingly becomes his class' representative in the school spell-a-thon.