Norma Snows

As everyone chants for Bookaboo, the stage is empty -- can anyone help? Up steps Olympic gold medalist Dame Kelly Holmes, armed with the Bookabag and "Norma Snows," by Paula Metcalf. Can she get Bookaboo across the finish line before it's too late?

Bookaboo

Guest Star: Kelly Holmes (Olympic gold medalist).

A multi-platform live-action and animation series about a famous drum-playing "rock puppy" who can't perform his solo unless he has heard a great, funny, scary, exciting or brilliant story. Featured celebrity guests met Bookaboo backstage and helped him out by sharing a story.

The series was supported by an online Bookaboo Book Club, live events and in-store promotions.

This series was commissioned by Emma Tennant, controller of CITV and ITV3, to back the National Year of Reading 2008 initiative to promote child and adult literacy in the United Kingdom.

With an increasing number of parents lacking confidence in their own literacy skills and one in five children leaving primary school, unable to read, the series aimed to highlight the fun that can be had when adults and children share a book.

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Production Design: David Bryan, Fran Cooper, Ian Emes.

Art Director: Prue Howard.

Assistant Art Director: Rebecca Rainford.

Animators: Dan Blacker, Andrea Tran.

First Assistant Director: Steve Newton.

Third Assistant Director: Bryony Cook.

Camera: Trevor Forrest .

First Assistant Camera: Jon Priddle.

Red Camera Work Flow: 4K London.

Best Boy: Barnaby Sweet.

Digital Imaging Technician: Danny Gagatt.

Gaffer: Steve Finberg.

Grip: Alex Meacock.

Makeup Artists: Hilary Martin, Charlotte Rogers.

Editors: Bjorn Johnson, Paula Baker.

On-Line Editors: Owen Hulme, John Kerron.

Music: Mark Dyson, Bella Saer.

Theme: Mark Dyson.

Drummer: Alex Toff.

Backing Vocals: Jayne Boniface, Kate Kape.

Sound Designer: Sean O'Shea.

Sound Recordist: Malcolm Hirst.

Sound Re-Recording Mixers: Ben Baird, Mike Prestwood Smith.

Sound Post-Production: Aquarium Studios.

Sound Effects Editor: Jee Lun Kan.

Script Supervisor: Ann Garraway.

BAFTA Children's Award, Pre-School Live Action, Ian Emes and Lucy Goodman, 2011.
BAFTA Children's Award, Best Pre-School Live Action, Lucy Goodman and Ian Emes, 2009.
Prix Jeunesse, Up to 6 Non-Fiction, Lucy Goodman, Prix Jeunesse International, Germany, 2010.
Nominee, Royal Television Society Television Award, Best Children's Entertainment Lucy Goodman, 2010