MUMBAI: Discovery US received 12 awards at the 2006 Parents’ Choice Awards a few days ago.

Discovery Kids received eight awards and Animal Planet garnered four awards. The Parents’ Choice Awards for children’s television recommend programming that helps children learn and grow.

Discovery Kids’ Peep And The Big Wide World was honoured with a Parents’ Choice Gold Award for the second year in a row. Paz took home a Parents’ Choice Silver Award and Toddworld garnered a Parents’ Choice Recommended Award.

Animal Planet’s Buggin’ With Ruud garnered a Parents’ Choice Silver Award. A Panda Is Born received a Parents’ Choice Recommended Award.

Established in 1978, the Parents’ Choice Foundation is the nation’s oldest nonprofit guide to quality children’s media and toys. The Parents' Choice Awards Committees, composed of moms, dads, teachers, performing artists, librarians and kids themselves, search out and recommend products that help kids grow—imaginatively, physically,morally and mentally.