The Smeds (who are red) never mix with the Smoos (who are blue). There lived a young Smoo by the name of Bill.' There lived a young Smed, and her name was Janet. The Smeds and The Smoos was first published by Alison Green Books in 2019 and was the UK’s bestselling picture book in hardback (2019) and paperback (2020).Soar into space with this glorious love story of alien folk, from the number one bestselling author and illustrator of The Gruffalo and Stick Man. The book is illustrated by Axel Scheffler who co-created The Gruffalo and who has worked with Donaldson on 19 books in total. 'Someone was asking me if the Black Lives Matter movement crept into my books and I think the Smeds and the Smoos, well it is about rival aliens, red ones and blues and the prejudices that get overcome. 'I would love them at some stage to do The Smeds and The Smoos,' she revealed. Talking to BT TV in 2020, Julia Donaldson said that The Smeds and The Smoos was the book she wanted Magic Light Pictures to adapt next. Can the two clans discover how to get along? Realising they’ve lost their children, Grandmother Smoo and Grandpa Smed are compelled to work together to try to find the young couple. So the desperate Janet and Bill sneak away to escape in the Smed’s red rocket to explore the universe together.

When their families find out they could not be more horrified. But Janet and Bill sneak out to meet up secretly and as they grow up they fall in love. The red Smeds never mix with the Smoos, who are blue, so when a chance encounter allows young Smed Janet to become friends with Bill, a young Smoo, their families immediately try to stop it. On a far-off planet, two families always avoid each other. If you haven’t read the popular children’s book yet, here is a guide to the story… He's a kindly old grandpa who cares about his family, I think that's the best way to describe him.' What is The Smeds and The Smoos plot? And he's sort of a little bit of a stick in the mud, really, but he's kind.

And he's quite sort of traditional, and a bit stuck in his ways. 'Grandpa Smed, he's the kind of patriarch of the Smed family, and he's very much the kind of protector of the family, and he's in charge. And actually, sometimes it takes the younger generation to sort of breach that divide. 'I think the thing I get from it is that the older generation tend to be more resistant to change. Bill Bailey, who plays Grandfather Smed, added: 'I think the main themes of the film are that we should just accept differences in others.

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