Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler are Britain’s answer to Dr. Seuss. Ever since publishing “The Gruffalo” — written by Donaldson and illustrated by Scheffler — in 1999, the duo have delighte…
narrates. “It’s brilliant, they’re all so good,” Donaldson says of the A-list talent who line up to star in her stories .
Colman, meanwhile, like many parents around the U.K., is a superfan. “I love all these books, Julia Donaldson books,” says Colman. “I’ve read [them] to my children over the years. And I love watching them when they’re on the telly. So I was thrilled that they asked me.” “Superworm” is the first Magic Light animation to have been filmed during the pandemic, with production launching in April 2020. With Scrimgeour and Hamman both based in South Africa while the teams at Magic Light and Blue Zoo Animation Studio, who created the animated sequences, were in the U.K., everyone quickly adapted to working via video calls. “We have to pay tribute here I think to Blue Zoo Animation, who are absolutely phenomenal,” says Pope.
More challenging even than producing a holiday special in a pandemic, however, is turning a 7-minute poem into a 30-minute story. Although Donaldson is generally sanguine about seeing her work in new mediums, her one stipulation is that the adaptations remain faithful to the text
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