Throughout their careers in animation, directors Max Lang and Daniel Snaddon have maintained a strong collaborative relationship with children’s book author Julia Donaldson. After bringing four of her ...

A half hour animated film for all the family based on the much-loved book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. The Snail and the Whale is the much loved classic that shows us ...

The BAFTA has revealed nominations for its Children and Young People Awards, which are returning for the first time in three years. The BBC’s “Dodger” and “The Snail and the Whale” lead with three ...

When adapting “The Snail and the Whale” into a short film, Max Lang and Daniel Snaddon had to find ways of stretching out the very short story into a nearly 30 minute short film. Both of them found ...

ANNECY — At Annecy to talk audiences through “Zog,” the latest in a line of hugely popular of painstakingly crafted half-hour films for the BBC and ZDF whose lineage stretches back through “Revolting ...

The Snail and The Whale has been a favourite bedtime story with both of my children, and so we were all very intrigued to know how this book, depicting the story of a snail who travels the world by ...

Filmmakers Max Lang and Daniel Snaddon are no strangers to the world of adapting the vividly illustrated children’s books of Julia Donaldson for animation. They’ve adapted “Room on the Broom,” “The ...

A rhyming story that involves children and adults from the very start. When a tiny snail decides she wants to travel the world, she writes her request on a rock. A blue whale comes to her rescue and ...