Jackanory Junior

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Jackanory has been reinvented for the 21st Century. All the elements of the Jackanory of old are still there. Our storytellers are well known and well loved British TV and Film actors, including Lenny Henry, Martin Clunes, Sophie Okonedo (Oscar nominated for Hotel Rwanda), Holly Aird (Waking the Dead, Soldier Soldier), Shobna Gulati (Coronation Street, Dinner Ladies), Art Malik and Chris Marshall (My Family).

The show still presents the story told to camera but the new series brings the book illustrations to life using animation and 'green screen' to place the story teller on the page, interacting with the story landscape. Elements of the books illustrations also appear as animations in the studio, ranging from lazy cats lounging on walls and butterflies flitting around a jungle clearing, to a plague of elves in an ordinary kitchen.

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