Dinopaws, a 52 x 11-minute animated pre-schoolers’ program, has been greenlit, it was announced Thursday.

The international co-production involves Toronto kids’ programming specialists Guru Studios and Canuck children’s broadcaster Treehouse along with the U.K.’s Impossible Kids, Kindle Entertainment and CBeebies.

As well as co-commissioning the series, BBC Worldwide has also picked up global television distribution rights (outside of the U.K. and Canada) and global merchandising rights.

Dinopaws went into production in December 2012 and is planned for delivery in spring of 2014. The pre-school series is set to air in 2014 in Canada and the U.K, and on BBC Worldwide’s CBeebies channels across its six key markets (Poland, the Nordic region, Africa, Australia, Asia and the Latin American and U.S. Hispanic markets).

The show features three young, charismatic dinosaurs named Bob, Gwen and Tony, whose sense of curiosity leads them on exciting and magical adventures.

The original concept was created and developed by Alan Gilbey at Kindle Entertainment and Impossible Kids, together with Guru Studio.