![]() ![]() The pictures Base created are what he calls "the stepping off place" of a story that follows the adventures of two children, Alex and Zoe, who visit the land of Animalia, where the beasts talk. The global reach of television means Animalia, the series, will no longer be linked to the English alphabet. ![]() The show has also been bought by networks in the US and Canada and by the BBC, and will be translated into other languages. The first three episodes will premiere during the Melbourne Film Festival, while the first half of the series is scheduled to be screened on Channel Ten in October. The book is being made into an ambitious 40-part animated television series. Lightning has now struck Animalia for the second time. It was the making of Base, who was in his 20s and supported by his wife Robyn, herself an artist and art teacher, during the three years he spent working on Animalia. Its success means Animalia has become something of a fable for Australian writers and artists: the picture book that won the lottery. ![]() Since it was first published in 1986, Base's eccentric menagerie has sold close to three million copies around the world. Now his menagerie is set to come alive on the screen in a $20 million television series.ĪNIMALIA is the alphabet book that changed author and illustrator Graeme Base's life. Graeme Base's alphabet book sold three million copies around the world. ![]()
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