Canadian distributor DHX Media has sold the preschool series Rastamouse to Australia’s ABC TV, with ABC Commercial snapping up the home video rights to the stop-motion cartoon show.

The CBeebies-commissioned series from Three Stones Media was also acquired by Canal+’s MiniMini TV channel in Poland. And HOP! has picked up 26 half-hours of the animated series for Israel.

DHX Media is shopping the worldwide rights, excluding Britain, to Rastamouse, which will bow on CBeebies in early 2011.

Based on the book series by Michael De Souza and Genevieve Webster, the animated series portrays Rasta-style mice characters that are part of the Easy Crew, including Rastamouse, Scratchy and Zoomer.