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A Magic Christmas with the Petronella Applewitch Advent Calendar
(1/11/2022)
It’s Christmas time with Petronella Applewitch! With its 24 gifts, the Petronella Applewitch advent calendar by FRANZIS offers everyday fun and education for children from 7 years until Christmas Eve. It includes an instruction book with magical tricks, fun craft ideas and insightful information about nature. Little witches and wizards in training even get a real magic wand, that helps with baking, crafting, and doing all kinds of magic.
Raven the Little Rascal Rocks in a New Book
(21/10/2022)
October 22nd marks the release of yet another book with adventures of cheeky little Raven. Der kleine Rabe Socke – Ritter Sockenherz by publisher Thienemann-Esslinger brings together 10 well-loved episodes of the Raven the Little Rascal TV-Series. Based on scripts by Jan Strathmann, Katja Grübel, Katharina Reschke and Heike Sperling, the stories are written by Nele Moost, author of the original book series “Raven the Little Rascal”.
With pictures from the TV-series and additional quiz questions for readers and listeners, the stories send Little Raven and his friends off to hunting thieves, competing in a football world championship and on several other adventures.
Petronella Applewitch in McDonald’s Happy Meal©
(18/8/2022)
Starting today, PETRONELLA APPLEWITCH will fly through McDonald’s restaurants in Germany and Austria: When buying a Happy Meal©, kids can choose a book which re-tells an episode of our Petronella TV-series. The TV-episode was written by Heike Sperling and was adapted into book form by Diana Steinbrede. With every Happy Meal© including a book, McDonald’s donates 10 cents to their kids’ charity. Enjoy!
RABBIT ACADEMY now available on DVD, Blu-ray and video on demand
(5/8/2022)
Since the 5th of August, the second big adventure of Max, Emmy and their friends can be watched at home. In Germany and Austria, RABBIT ACADEMY – MISSION EGGPOSSIBLE is available on DVD, Blu-ray and on video on demand platforms such as CHILI, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Google Play, YouTube, Rakuten TV, Magenta TV, Microsoft Store, Sky and maxdome.
4th re-run of PETRONELLA on KiKA in primetime slot!
(17/6/2022)
PETRONELLA APPLEWITCH successfully witched herself back into primetime kids‘ television. In its 4th re-run since its premiere in 2020, the little applewitch and her friends will be on German TV channel KiKA daily from Monday to Sunday at 6:40 pm primetime. Missed an episode? You can also find the series on KiKA’s online services.
Huge success for RABBIT ACADEMY
(3/6/2022)
WOW! The RABBITS accomplished their MISSION EGGPOSSIBLE and are nominated for several kids film festivals such as Germany’s most prestigious “Goldener Spatz” and Busan International Kids & Youth Film Festival in South Korea. In German speaking Europe, RABBIT ACADEMY accumulated more than 590.000 admissions in over 800 cinemas and is the 2nd most successful German film in Germany and the most successful Austrian film in Austria this year.
The RABBITS have also become international stars. France had over 160.000 admissions, in Poland the film came in 3rd place in the first two weeks.
In over 240 cinemas, RABBIT ACADEMY was in the top 10 in Australia and New Zealand with further successes in the UK, the Netherlands, and many other countries. Congratulations to the whole team that made EGGPOSSIBLE possible!