Then there is Fangio, who is a hedgehog that has Argentine blood. He usually stays in a box out in the Sawdust’s garage. Fangio likes a meal of bread soaked in milk. Often, he goes out to the Elysian Fields, which is a patch of waste land located just beyond the shrubbery. They also carry subtle messages, with one story, “Olga Starts a Rumour”, encouraging questioning about science and the environment. 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).

Wilson Nimmo, who is best known as Miss Hoolie in children’s series Balamory, said: “Everyone knows and loves Paddington, so it was a wonderful compliment to be asked to bring the Olga da Polga books to life.” 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. 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.” Olga has a boyfriend, named Boris. He lives near the sea, and is the dad of Olga’s kids. He watches far too much television, but this is what makes him an excellent storyteller. Boris is able to rival Olga at telling stories.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.

Karen Sawdust – Olga's owner and caretaker. As a child, she seems to understand Olga better than her parents. The series will be produced by Scottish company Maramedia, featuring a “unique blend of live action with CG visual effects for the animals’ mouths, as well as colourful animation for Olga’s imaginative tales”.

Publication Order of Olga Da Polga Books

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 ] 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. 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.

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. 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. Ich liebe die farbigen Zeichnungen und auch die Geschichte, wie das Meerschweinchen ein zu Hause bekommt. Soweit ich mich erinnere, tat mir Olga damals sehr leid. Weil sie in einem Käfig, in einer Tierhandlung saß. Wie froh war ich, als sie endlich da raus durfte. Wie gesagt sie wird immer etwas Besonderes für mich bleiben. 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.lga is delighted when the Sawdust family move her inside their house for the winter. She has her own box in the corner of the dining room where she spends her days watching the comings and goings in the house. But when she decides to do a spot of decorating, things don't go according to plan . .

In 2022, the BBC commissioned 13 episodes of a live-action TV series of Olga da Polga for CBeebies, featuring Julie Wilson Nimmo and Greg Hemphill. A second series is set to air in 2023. [4] Books [ edit ] Chapter books [ edit ] 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. Her garden companions soon discover that Olga loves an audience and from the moment she arrives she tells them stories about her wild and exciting adventures. Although they are not always sure whether to believe everything Olga says, one thing is certain-since Olga moved in, life is never dull! The character held a unique place in the writer’s affections. Bond would replace each Olga with a new guinea pig, given the same name. The “sixth” Olga would sit on the author’s lap as he watched television at his Maida Vale home in his final years.

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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 is a very busy guinea-pig. She tries to save the Sawdust family from a drought’s effects, she takes part in a sponsored squeak. Olga even takes up jogging. Somehow she always allows time to delight her buddies with her far-fetched stories and tall tales.