Baby Octopus Options Rights to Nadya Skylung Books

Baby Octopus is expanding its portfolio of female-led fantasy-animation shows, optioning the rights to the series of Nadya Skylung books and signing a development deal for television and merchandising with author Jeff Seymour.

Development on the 26 half-hour episodes for tweens will also reunite Baby Octopus with the Auckland, New Zealand-based animation company Toybox, co-producers of the YouTube Kids’ show Sherwood. The companies will work with Seymour to bring the Nadya Skylung stories to life.

Diana Manson, co-founder of Baby Octopus, said: “We were enthralled by these books and the strong character of Nadya as soon as we read them and this is just the type of distinctive, multi-layered and powerful project we love. Jeff has created an absorbing and complex world with dramatic ecological airships and tense humanistic themes that are ideal for the screen. We can’t wait to work together with Jeff and our colleagues at Toybox, whose cinematic style of animation for television will bring his incredible vision to life.”