Granpa
Granpa is a British familyoriented animated film that adapts a picture book by John Burningham. Produced by TVS for ChannelTelevision in 1989, it was released on VHS by Universal Studios in 1994.
The animated film is an adaptation of the childrens picture book Granpa, written and illustrated by John Burningham and published by Jonathan Cape in 1984. Burningham won the Kurt Maschler Award, or the Emil, from Maschler publishers and Booktrust, which annually recognised the authors of one work of imagination for children, in which text and illustration are integrated so that each enhances and balances the other.The film celebrates the relationship between a small girl named Emily voiced by Emily Osborne, and her kindly but ailing grandfather voiced by Peter Ustinov. Emilys playful innocence is contrasted with Granpas increasing frailty. Aware that he will not be around for much longer, he shares his memories of adventures and days gone by. ........
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