The Gruffalo's Child (film)

The Gruffalo's Child is a 2011 British short computer animated TV film based on the 2004 picture book of the same name written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. A sequel to The Gruffalo, the film was shown on Christmas Day 2011 in the United Kingdom, exactly two years after the debut of the first film.[1][2]

The Gruffalo's Child
Film poster
Created byMax Lang
Based onThe Gruffalo's Child
by Julia Donaldson
Written byJulia Donaldson
Axel Scheffler
Directed byJohannes Weiland
Uwe Heidschotter
StarringRob Brydon
Robbie Coltrane
James Corden
Shirley Henderson
John Hurt
Tom Wilkinson
Narrated byHelena Bonham Carter
Theme music composerRené Aubry
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Germany
Original language(s)English
Production
Producer(s)Martin Pope
Michael Rose
Running time30 minutes
Production company(s)Magic Light Pictures
Studio Soi
DistributorE1 Entertainment
Release
Original networkBBC One
Original release
  • 25 December 2011 (2011-12-25)

Directed by Johannes Weiland and Uwe Heidschotter, the film was produced by Michael Rose and Martin Pope of Magic Light Pictures, London, in association with Studio Soi in Ludwigsburg, Germany. In June 2013, the film was given the Award for Best TV Special at the 8th Festival of European Animated Feature Films and TV Specials[3]

Plot

In a snowy wood, the squirrel mother's daughter gets her brother. The squirrel boy then asks, "Whose footprints are these?". The girl squirrel tells him, "The Gruffalo", and so the squirrel boy tries to tell his mother that the gruffalo was there. However, the Mother Squirrel doesn't believe them until she tells her two children a story of how the Gruffalo escaped from the mouse.

The story begins with the Gruffalo's daughter attempting to follow a hedgehog, because she just wants to explore the outside world. Her father, however, does not want her to do that. He warns her against going outside and tells her about the time when he met the mouse. He describes the mouse as a monster, and the daughter imagines the mouse to be just as her father depicts it.

One snowy night, however, the Gruffalo's daughter decides to explore the outside world, and she begins to follow some footprints. On her journey through the deep dark wood, she meets first the snake and later the owl and finally the fox, realizing that the monster doesn't exist. She then begins to cry, and wishes to be back with her father when suddenly, she runs into the mouse. The mouse tells her that the monster is real, and he makes a scary shadow on the branch of a hazel tree. The Gruffalo's daughter runs away to her father's cave, but the shadow-like mouse begins to follow her. In the cave of the Gruffalo, she is now comfortable at her father's side.

Voice Cast

References
  1. "The Gruffalo's Child". BBC One. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
  2. "First Image From BBC Christmas Special The Gruffalo's Child". twitchfilm. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
  3. 11. Kecskeméti Animációs Filmfesztivál 8. Európai Animációs Játékfilm Fesztivál. Kecskeméti Animáció Film Fesztivál. 2013.
  4. "Here's what's best on the box this Christmas". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
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