Now showing at My Book, The Movie: Penni Russon's Undine trilogy, a series of magical books set in Hobart’s streets and the surrounding bush and seascapes.Her entry opens:
When I first imagined Undine as a movie (which was as I was writing the book!) I pictured it as a live action, but my four year old has recently fallen deeply in love with anime – films like My Neighbour Totoro, Spirited Away and Whisper of the Heart. When I started watching these with Frederique ITasmania-born Penni Russon's Undine trilogy is publisdefinitely thought that it would be a great way to make Undine into a film. The dialogue in Totoro is some of the best I've ever heard in a film, the spirit of childhood is so perfectly captured. I think the Tasmanian landscape would be inspirational to a film-maker and Tasmania and Japan have a special relationship, maybe because we both know what it's like to see your country as fractured into islands – an image of Australia that 'mainlanders' don't share.
So without further ado, here's the cast list, bearing in mind that because its animation, age doesn't matter so much! [read on]
hed by Random House in Australia and Greenwillow in the US.Learn more about the author and her novels at Russon's website and her blog, Eglantine's Cake.
The Page 69 Test: Penni Russon's Breathe.
My Book, The Movie: Undine.
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