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‘The Gruffalo’ Creator Julia Donaldson Says New BBC Adaptation ‘Tiddler’ Marked the ‘Best Moment in My Whole Writing Career’
The adaptation of Julia Donaldson's children's book 'Tiddler' starring Hannah Waddingham will air in the U.K. on the BBC.
A film about a fantasist fish isn’t the most obvious subject for Christmas Day – except when it’s based on a children’s story by prolific British author Julia Donaldson and her longtime illustrator Axel Scheffler. Speaking at a press event in November, Donaldson said the book, which is also called “Tiddler,” features one of her favorite plot devices, in which Tiddler – a naughty school-aged fish who is always late for class because he’s dreaming up “tall tales” – is accidentally kidnapped before finding his way home by tracing his own story through the various undersea creatures who have heard it. The screen version goes deeper than the book into the character of Tiddler’s friend Johnny Dory, showing him to be a talented illustrator.
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