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The first book, I Volition Never Not EVER Eat a Tomato (Usa title, later printing with Greenaway Medal seal, 2000)

Charlie and Lola are fictional children created by the English writer and illustrator Lauren Child in 2000. They were introduced in a serial of movie books and later on adapted as animated television characters. Lola is an energetic and imaginative little girl; Charlie is her kind and patient older brother who is ever willing to assist Lola learn and abound. Charlie and Lola's parents, likewise as their friends' parents, are often mentioned, only never seen.Charlie and Lola also has made a telly show.

History [edit]

The series' commencement book is I Will Never Not Ever Swallow a Tomato, published past Orchard Books in 2000.^[one] The U.Due south. edition was published in the same year by Candlewick Press, with the championship: I Volition Never Non E'er Swallow a Love apple. For that kickoff book in the series, Child won the 2000 Kate Greenaway All-Medal Bays from the Library Clan, recognising the year'southward best children'southward book illustration past a British subject. For the 50th anniversary of the Medal (1955–2005) information technology was named ane of the top ten winning works, selected by a 2007 console to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite.^[2]

The series was fabricated into an blithe Tv set bear witness, Charlie and Lola.

Publications [edit]

• Snow Is My Favourite and My Best
• Excuse Me, Only That Is My Book (Television set episode title: Just That Is My Book)
• We Honestly Tin Look After Your Domestic dog (Television episode title: Nosotros Practise Hope Honestly We Can Look After Your Canis familiaris)
• My Wobbly Tooth Must Not Ever Never Autumn Out (Idiot box episode title: I Do Not Ever Never Want My Wobbly Tooth to Fall Out)
• Say Cheese
• I'm Just Non Bang-up on Spiders
• Whoops! But It Wasn't Me! (TV episode title: It Wasn't Me!)
• This is Actually My Party
• I Can Do Anything That'southward Everything all on my Own
• Yous Can Exist My Friend
• Yous Won't Like This Present As Much As I Do
• My Schoolhouse Play Sticker Book (Based upon the episode There Is Merely One Sun and That Is Me)
• My Haircut Sticker Book (Based upon the episode I Like My Hair Completely the Way Information technology Is)
• My Decorated Sticker Book (Based upon the episode I'chiliad Far Too Extremely Busy)
• My Wonderful Picnic Sticker Book (Based upon the episode The About Wonderfullest Picnic in the Whole Broad World)

Various colouring books and a mag are also available in the Great britain.

The "Charlie and Lola" books take been translated into Welsh under the proper name Cai a Lois and into many other languages.

Characters [edit]

Primary [edit]

Charlie Sonner

Charlie is the imaginative and helpful brother of Lola. He is 12 years onetime and has platinum blonde hair like Lola. Charlie is ofttimes asked to look after Lola, and he sometimes has to think of artistic means to continue her decorated. In both the Television receiver serial and the books, he breaks the fourth wall past talking about Lola to the viewers/readers.

Lola Sonner

Lola is an imaginative and quirky 5-year-quondam girl.^[iii] Lola is the younger sister of Charlie and is best friends with Lotta. She is described by her brother Charlie as "pocket-sized and very funny". She likes playing and is full of character. She normally wears blue butterfly hairclips and has brusk blonde hair. She is frequently a drama queen. She also has an imaginary friend named Soren Lorenson.^[iv]

Marv Lowe

Marv is Charlie's best friend. He has a younger brother named Morten and an older brother named Marty. Marv has a dachshund named Sizzles (wordplay on the type of dog, a "wiener dog") and a pet mouse named Squeak. He is the aforementioned age as Charlie.^{[ citation needed ]}

Lotta

Lotta is Lola's best friend. Later meeting at school they became friends chop-chop and spend a lot of fourth dimension together. Lotta normally follows Lola'due south lead, and is in awe of Lola's brother Charlie, his friend Marv, and Sizzles the canis familiaris. She has black curly hair.

Soren Lorenson

Soren Lorenson is Lola's imaginary friend, rendered every bit monochrome and translucent.^{[ citation needed ]} When Lola and Soren Lorenson are playing, he is rather detailed (has the await of a real person only grey and translucent). When someone interrupts them (such equally Charlie), he still has item but becomes more unknown.^{[ citation needed ]}

Minor characters [edit]

Marty Lowe

Marty is Marv's older brother. He doesn't like to discard anything. Marty does not seem to like people in his room. His vocalization is heard in Look After Your Planet. He exclaims "Get out of my room, now!" Played by Charlie Avery.

Minnie Reader

Minnie is a minor graphic symbol in the show. She wears glasses and likes guinea pigs and ponies. Minnie is oftentimes seen with Evie.

Morten Lowe

Marv's younger brother and a friend of Lola's. He is quite shy just in one case he starts to play he's a lot of fun.

Arnold Wolf

Lola'southward neighbor. Arnold is only featured in some episodes. In ane episode, Arnold drops Lola's ice-cream. But he makes it up to her past letting her use his paddling pool.

Granny and Grandpa

Charlie and Lola'southward grandparents. Granny paints for a hobby, while it appears that Gramps is adept with horses. Similar all other developed characters, they are referred to just are never seen.

Mum and Dad

Charlie and Lola's parents. In the books, too as all the adults, Mum and Dad are never seen, but mentioned.

Evie

A ruddy girl in Lola and Lotta's class. She has scarlet pilus which she wears in pigtails. She besides wears a brim, a long sleeve shirt and striped tights.

Jack

Marv's cousin. Lola and Lotta thought he was Marv'due south new all-time friend in the episode, "But Marv is Absolutely Charlie's Best Friend"

Groundwork [edit]

Sizzles

Marv'south dog. He is a Dachshund

Nibbles

Charlie and Lola's short-lived mouse.

Squeak

Marv'south white mouse. He tin leap from one leg to another.

Bert

Lola'south class guinea pig. Despite the name, Bert is a girl. At first, Charlie and Lola idea Bert was a boy, until she had a litter of baby guinea pigs.

Tickles

Charlie and Lola'due south second mouse. He can easily tickle anyone, hence the name.

Casper

Charlie & Lola's grandparents' true cat who comes to stay with Charlie and Lola sometimes.

Bat Cat

A graphic symbol from one of Charlie and Lola's favourite comics. He is a grey/black cat that goes near doing heroic deeds.

Pirate Squidbones

Charlie and Marv's favourite drawing, Pirate Squidbones tells of the adventures of a notorious one-eyed pirate and his motley crew. The villain in this TV show is the kraken. Advent in How Many More Minutes?.

The Tooth Fairy

A fairy who takes teeth and leaves money. In the episode How Many More Minutes?". She teams upwardly with Charlie and Lola to cease the evil pirates.

Smiley children

A girl and a boy who has shiny clean teeth. They always smile. They later are kidnapped by the evil pirates.

Toys [edit]

Foxie

Lola's stuffed fox. Information technology is her favourite toy. In the episode "What If I Go Lost In The Centre Of Nowhere?", after a long search for her lost toy, she later comes to notice out that she simply left information technology under her pillow.

Ellie

Lola'due south toy elephant. Ellie is a red china elephant with nice pinkish flowery designs all over it.

Frog

Lola's springy frog that she keeps on her bed stand. Apparently, this is likewise Søren Lorenson'due south favourite toy; he plays with it when Lola'due south non around.

The Rocket

A class project of Charlie's making, the rocket is a model space rocket that won Charlie a First Place prize in school; he beat Marv and some other male child named Harvey. Unfortunately, Lola in her curiosity had a bit of a mishap with it and broke the rocket. Just Charlie, notwithstanding his crossness, was able to mend information technology like new.

Daisy

Lola's rag doll, she is a blonde doll wearing a pink apparel and a bow to match in its hair. She has bluish buttons for eyes.

Molly the Rabbit

An anthropomorphic female stuffed rabbit who'due south all pink with a red bow on its head. She is one of Lola'southward blimp animals.

Mr. Teddy

Charlie'southward former teddy acquit from when he was Lola'due south age. He is yellow with green buttons for eyes and a bluish bow tie. He now belongs to Lola.

In other adaptations [edit]

Television serial [edit]

The books have been adapted past Tiger Aspect into a cartoon series, using a collage style of animation which accurately captures the style of the original books. Directed by Kitty Taylor and Claudia Lloyd. 2D cel blitheness, paper cutout, fabric blueprint, real textures, photomontage, and archive footage are all employed and afterwards animated in a software awarding called CelAction.^[five] The cartoons are also notable for their apply of children's voices, rather than adult voice actors, a technique pioneered by the Peanuts television specials.

The first series of 26 episodes (11 minutes each) was start broadcast on seven November 2005.^{[half dozen]} The second series of 26 episodes (once again, eleven minutes each) started broadcasting on CBeebies on 2 October 2006 (with the morning broadcast also being shown on BBC Two) a third series followed. In the boob tube series, Charlie is seven and Lola is four, and goes to schoolhouse (her instructor is called Mrs. Hansen). In episodes of both the first and second serial, Charlie celebrates his birthday (in "Information technology'due south a Secret..." and "This Is Really My Political party"), although this doesn't seem to affect his age in other episodes. The 3rd series, a final 26-episode run, was broadcast in the Uk and the US in the 2007-2008 television season. With ii special episodes broadcast in 2006 and 2007, a total of 80 episodes were produced.

Theatre [edit]

Charlie and Lola's Best Bestest Play was showtime performed at Polka Theatre on 26 April 2008 and has later been performed at the venue once again in 2010 and 2012. It was staged for the starting time time at Glow, the events and exhibition space at Bluewater in Kent, past Watershed Productions over the Christmas period of 2013.^[7]

Charlie and Lola's All-time Bestest Play is based on the characters created past Lauren Child and adjusted by Jonathan Lloyd, Artistic Managing director of Polka Theatre.

The Charlie and Lola Album [edit]

Charlie and Lola's Favourite and Best Music Tape was released on 19 March 2007, aimed at parents also as children. The music is largely a evolution of existing interstitial and theme music taken from series 1 and 2. There are elements of easy listening, lounge, big band jazz, reggae, bluegrass, eastern European, sci-fi, Latin, classical and film music. At that place are 17 tracks plus one hidden track, with the programme's theme melody opening and closing the album.

Each track includes spoken give-and-take extracts from the series. In many cases, these are manipulated to fit with the musical accompaniment.

"The Bestest in the Barn" was released as a single on 12 March 2007. It features Lola and Lotta teaching various animals on their farm how to sing, dance and play music. This is the just track on the album which does not appear in any episode. Lola and Lotta do however appear equally farmers in "I Do Not Ever Never Desire My Wobbly Tooth To Autumn Out". They as well have a trend to imagine that animals are capable of developing impressive human being skills, as seen in "Nosotros Do Hope Honestly We Tin can Look Afterward Your Dog" and "I Will Not Ever Never Forget Yous Nibbles". "The Bestest in the Barn" now features on a playlist of CBeebies programme music played throughout CBeebies State at the Alton Towers Resort.

The anthology is a collaboration between diverse composers and musicians who write and perform for the TV series. Much of the music is programmed simply many tracks characteristic performances by musicians from London-based bands – Menlo Park, Polar Bear and Acoustic Ladyland.

4 of the tracks accept been animated by Tiger Aspect Productions: "The Bestest in the Barn", "Sizzles", "Batcat" and "Information technology's Snowing". "The Bestest in the Barn" video is encoded as an mpeg on the album CD, and all four videos are included every bit DVD extras on the series ii DVD drove.

Track listing [edit]

1. "Charlie and Lola Theme Tune"
2. "I Really Want To Play Music"
3. "The Bestest in the Befouled"
4. "Boo!"
5. "Sizzles"
6. "I Will Not Ever Never Consume A Lycopersicon esculentum"
7. "Milk Monkeys"
8. "Germs"
9. "Magic"
10. "Bat Cat"
11. "Lolaland"
12. "Greendrops"
13. "I Am Non Sleepy"
14. "Martian Assault"
15. "All Sleepy"
16. "Can You lot Maybe Turn The Lite on?"
17. "Charlie and Lola Theme Melody" (Extended Version)
18. ".... It's Snowing" (hugger-mugger track)

Music credits [edit]

Theme Tune written by Tom Dyson and Soren Munk
Product & Arrangement with John Greswell

All other tracks written by John Greswell and produced by Greswell / Taylor for MPM London Ltd.

Except:

• 3 written by John Greswell, Christopher Taylor, Benjamin Nicholls
• half-dozen, 12 written past John Greswell, Christopher Taylor
• vii written by Tom Dyson, Soren Munk
• 16 written and produced by David Schweitzer

Additional musicians [edit]

• Andy Mellon – Trumpet / Flugelhorn / Piano / Vocals / Clarinet
• Benjamin Nicholls – Guitars / Banjo / Jew's harp / Double bass / Bass guitar
• Pete Wareham – Tenor saxophone / Trumpet
• Sebastian Rochford - Drums / Percussion
• Joe Bentley – Trombone

Demon Music Grouping Ltd.

BBC Worldwide Ltd.

All tracks published by Tiger Attribute / BMG Music Publishing

Sleeve Package design by David Mackintosh

Voices [edit]

• Charlie – Jethro Lundie-Brown, Daniel Mayers (series 2), Oriel Agranoff (series 3)
• Lola – Maisie Cowell, Clementine Cowell (series two), Holly Callaway (series 3)
• Marv – Ryan Harris
• Lotta – Morgan Gayle
• Soren Lorenson – Stanley Street

Animation of promos [edit]

"The Bestest in the Barn", "Dancing Dogs", "Batcat" and "It'south Snowing" promos blithe by Tiger Aspect Productions. Tom Beattie, Betti Doherty, Alistair Douglas, Catherine T. Elliot, Tim Fehrenbach, Claudia Lloyd, James O'Shea, Caroline Parkinson, Mark Patterson, Steve Perkins, Kitty Taylor, Clare Winkworth, Andrew Zein.

Meet likewise [edit]

References [edit]

1. ^ (Greenaway Winner 2000) Archived 6 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. CILIP. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
2. ^ "seventy Years Celebration: Anniversary Top Tens" Archived 27 Oct 2016 at the Wayback Machine. The CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children'south Book Awards. CILIP. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
3. ^ "Character Outlines". bbc.co.uk.
4. ^ "Charlie and Lola Series i". tigeraspect.co.uk. 25 April 2013.
5. ^ Tiger Aspect Productions Archived 7 December 2008 at the Wayback Motorcar
6. ^ BBC - Printing Office - Charlie and Lola printing pack introduction
7. ^ "Charlie and Lola Tickets | Family Shows in London & UK | Times & Details".

External links [edit]

• Official website
• Lauren Child official website
• Charlie and Lola at IMDb
• CBeebies - Charlie and Lola at bbc.co.britain
• Charlie and Lola theme tune
• Charlie and Lola on Playhouse Disney

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