Coming to the World

Jennifer Arnold, viola, is a native of North Royalton, Ohio. She earned a Professional Studies Degree in viola performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music in 2005, where she also obtained a bachelor’s of music in 2003. Jennifer has studied with Robert Vernon, Principal Violist of The Cleveland Orchestra, for six years. She has also studied with Cleveland’s Assistant Principal Violist, Stan Konopka, and with Cavani Quartet Second Violinist Mari Sato. During her years in Cleveland, Jennifer was a member of Red (an orchestra), the Akron Symphony and The Cleveland Pops Orchestra. She has participated in various festivals including the Interlochen Arts Camp, ENCORE School for Strings, the Kennedy Center/National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute, the Henry Mancini Institute, the National Orchestral Institute, Spoleto Festival USA and the Britt Chamber Festival.

Molly MacDonald: Molly is close friends with Binky, and is a member of a group of bullies called the Tough Customers (well, about as tough as they could get). She is known to be good at giving advice. Molly has short brown hair that completely covers her eyes. She has a little brother named James who is in D.W.'s preschool class. In one episode, Arthur Makes Waves, she befriends Arthur and D.W.

Kaitlyn "Baby Kate" Read: Baby Kate is Arthur and D.W.'s baby sister. She's been shown to be able to communicate with Pal and other animals in some of the episodes.

Fern Walters*: Fern is very quiet, shy, and something of an introvert, but can be rather snappy if provoked. She is interested in poetry, mysteries (particularly Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie), singing, and reading the comic book adventures of ZutZut (a parody of the Tintin comics). Her mother, Doria, is constantly trying to get Fern to become more extroverted, and even Fern herself sometimes worries she is "too quiet". She is known for her realistic storytelling, especially when telling scary stories, inspired after reading Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, and even writing fanfiction stories using her own characters Essie Beauchap and Felicity Bonchance under her pen name "Agatha Shelly" (a play on the names of famous writers Agatha Christie and Mary Shelly)