The Tales of Olga Da Polga

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Olga was named after the Bond family's real guinea pig: in 2014, Guardian journalist Michelle Pauli met Olga number six. [3] Television series [ edit ] There are also illustrations, and I have to say those were the best part of the book. Olga looks absolutely adorable, and I just love how detailed the art is. Bond had already enjoyed success with his Paddington books, as well as with his animated television series The Herbs, which ran on the BBC in the late 1960s and 70s. The arrival of the new pet set his imagination running once more. Mr. Sawdust is the one that built Olga’s home, and is Karen’s dad. Mrs. Sawdust, of course, is Karen’s mom.

Sure, she was also interesting to read about, to see her live her life, to see her talk about the changing of seasons, to see her views on her home, to see her make friends with even the unlikeliest animals (cats). Karen Sawdust – Olga's owner and caretaker. As a child, she seems to understand Olga better than her parents. Although Olga is more than 50 years old, CBeebies believes the character will entrance today’s pre-school audience. There is also Fangio, a hedgehog with Argentinian blood, who sometimes stays in a box in the Sawdust family's garage, being fed on bread and milk. He becomes a good friend of Olga da Polga, and invites her to break out of her confinement and experience "freedom". She visits his home in the "Elysian Fields", but in the course of doing so, realises just how different the two creatures are. She finds that his so-called paradise is just a patch of waste land beyond the shrubbery, dank, dark, dirty - and full of insects and worms, which she shudderingly discovers, Fangio loves.Olga da Polga began life, as best can tell, in a pet shop with a muddle of guinea pigs. Olga da Polga is sure she will go places, no matter what Old Sale or Return might say about humans and the world beyond their pet shop door. One day, Olga da Polga does leave, with a small girl named Karen, in one of those motor cars Olga da Polga has seen through the pet shop window. From this day forward, a new family, new friends, and new experiences will fill Olga da Polga’s life—and she is happy. Olga Moves House” is the fourth chapter book in the “Olga da Polga” series, which was released in the year 2001. Winter has arrived to the Sawdust house, and Olga’s been moved to a new home, in the house. She is highly excited about this and is even able to get Mrs. Sawdust to redecorate her box. Also why the hell would those people bind/wrap Holly, HOLLY around Olga's hutch? She could try to eat it and let me just tell you this is a bad idea. :| There are just some things you shouldn't put near your guinea pig.

If Olga proves a hit, the BBC could share in merchandise sales and spin-offs with the Michael Bond estate. They also carry subtle messages, with one story, “Olga Starts a Rumour”, encouraging questioning about science and the environment.So yeah, I was really looking forward to this one, because I love guinea pigs (and other rodents as well) and I just love it when books are about them. Sadly, this one was not meant to be. These are lively and funny tales with a lead character that is quite wonderful. The stories are written in an easy going way, make these for an entertaining and fun read for the new independent readers.

Where Paddington famously found a new home with the Brown family, Olga takes residence with Mr & Mrs Sawdust and their eight-year-old daughter Karen, who forms a special bond with the animal. Besuch. Boris ein Meerschweinchenmann ist plötzlich da. Doch Olga gefällt das gar nicht, denn alles in dem Haus gehört ihr. Auch das Fressen. Wie bekommt sie diesen Eindringling nur wieder los. Oder ist er gar nicht so schlimm wie es jetzt scheint? Boris – Olga's boyfriend. He lives by the seaside, and is also the father of Olga's children. He watches too much TV, but this makes him a very good storyteller. He rivals Olga in the storytelling department. My own Olga lived to seven-and-a-half years old; not bad for a guinea pig. My father built a hutch for her as well as a run so that she could go out in the garden,” said Jankel, who ran Bond’s literary estate for 30 years until the company the family had formed was sold in 2016. Programme makers from Maramedia, a Glasgow-based production company which specialises in filming animals, approached Jankel with the idea of making a show based on the books. Some of the characters in the new 13-part series are drawn from her childhood, just as they were in her father’s original stories.Once we saw that this was what Michael had envisaged, of course it was a dream come true to be able to go ahead and start filming.” When Paddington first hit screens, the BBC dominated children’s viewing. But CBeebies is no longer the default choice for children aged six and under. Facing competition from streaming platforms and YouTube, its audience reach slipped from 6 to 5 per cent last year. I finally managed to meet Michael’s daughter Karen to show her my ideas. She immediately ran off to get her father’s work and showed me that the ideas he had to bring Olga to the screen, were almost identical to the scripts I’d written. Olga might just be spunkiest heroine you will come across in stories. Her adventures are sure to bring a big smile to your face, and it is a lot of fun to go on adventures with her. Jankel said her father’s writing always included animals, from his books about Thursday the mouse, to his adult detective series about Monsieur Pamplemousse and his faithful bloodhound Pommes Frites: “Somehow he could see an animal’s character coming through.”