The fantastic and mesmeric new series " In the Night Garden " aimed at the 1-4 age group has been created by Anne Wood and Andy Davenport, the team behind, surprise, surprise, the" Teletubbies ".
In the
Night Garden can be described as a sort of visual nursery rhyme book and features lots
of characters based loosely on toys, living together
within a happy, loving and caring community.
Like the best type of childrens stories, in the night garden takes children on an imaginative journey
and during each episode children will eexperience
a variety of interesting and unique spaces and
characters and will be drawn to make their
own connections amongst them.
The
in the night garden community is filled with a
group of diverse characters that interact, care
and look out for each other in different ways.
They do this, even though they all seem to have
substantial differences in their individual sizes.
Every character has their own special song and dance, with the most noticeable
characters in this respect being Igglepiggle and
Upsy Daisy, due to their emotional
and comic interaction.
in
the night garden characters
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Igglepiggle is the energetic and physical one of the in the night garden characters, always jumping and bouncing.
He's curious and adventurous, but also vulnerable
and modest and despite his energy, he is often
in need of reassurance, and likes to carry his comforting red blanket with him.
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Upsy
Daisy is the happy and carefree
character. Upsy Daisy likes to dance at any opportunity. She has her own special bed that has a
mind of its own, she seems to be always chasing
or being chased by her bed.
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The
Tombliboos are a set of three characters that live inside a lovely round bush,
which has many different levels.The
Tombliboos enjoy playing with their drums, piano, and special blocks.
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Makka
Pakka is a lovable character who
lives by himself in a little cave with his
favourite stones. He also makes sure all
of the Garden stones and all of the faces
of the other characters are clean and tidy
by using his little soap and sponge. He travels
around the Garden pushing his Og-Pog, the
little trolley that carries his cleaning
materials, sucha as sponge, and his uff-uff
dryer.
(click
for Makka Pakka Song)
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The
Pontipines are a large family of small characters that live
in a semi-detached house at the bottom of a tree.
The Pontipines and their next-door neighbours, the Wottingers are two families
of ten, with eight children, half
boys and half girls.
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The
Haahoos are six massive great billowy shapes
that make their way through the Garden like puffy
pillows, calling to each other as they meet up
to go to sleep in a big squishy pile.
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The
Ninky Nonk is a lovely, interesting train, containing
differently sized and shaped carriages.The
Pinky Ponk is an airship, speckled, and having many fins
as well as landing lights, the Pinky Ponk offers a relaxed slow ride and super views of the night garden from the sky.
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Of course,
with every successful new childrens series, there
follows the must have toys, and this CBeebies series
is no different, so we have amongst others,
an Iggle piggle dancing Plush, a NinkyNonk vehicle,
a Makka Pakka Bath Toy, and a varied selection
of DVD's and Books.
[click for even more night garden toys]
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