{"id":14975,"date":"2018-09-21T10:42:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T14:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/atomics-new-book-based-series-empower-girls\/"},"modified":"2018-09-21T11:15:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T15:15:14","slug":"atomics-new-book-based-series-to-empower-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/atomics-new-book-based-series-to-empower-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Atomic&#8217;s New Book-Based Series to Empower Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thunderbird&#8217;s Atomic Cartoons has optioned the rights to adapt the book series <em>Princesses Wear Pants<\/em> as an animated TV show, with Drew Barrymore and Flower Films executive producing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Princesses Wear Pants<\/em> aims to empower young females by encouraging them to be brave, strong and ambitious. The\u00a0best-selling book series is penned by Savannah Guthrie and Allison Oppenheim, who will serve as\u00a0creators as well as executive producers alongside\u00a0Thunderbird&#8217;s Jennifer McCarron and Matthew Berkowitz.<\/p>\n<p>In announcing the news this week on NBC&#8217;s <em>Today Show<\/em>, Guthrie said: \u201cOne of the things that I\u2019m hoping we can exemplify is that women working together can accomplish great things. I love the idea of girls helping girls, girls cooperating [and] not competing. Nothing is just a little kid book anymore&#8230;these are important conversations about &#8216;What is womanhood?&#8217; and &#8216;What does it mean to be a strong young woman?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She continued: \u201cIt\u2019s really fun to try to develop [this] young lady. In some ways it\u2019s like the girl I\u2019m trying to raise is the girl I\u2019m trying to portray with Penelope, [who] is good-hearted, kind, moral, wholesome [and] strong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe fell in love with the books, especially the inspirational character of Princess Penelope, and then we fell even deeper in love with the idea of working with Savannah, Allison and Drew\u2014it\u2019s a dream project,\u201d added McCarron, the CEO of Atomic Cartoons and Thunderbird. \u201cPersonally, as a mother, I am proud that Atomic has the opportunity to produce this series to further share Penelope\u2019s empowering message\u2014that you can be pink and sparkly, but also a strong leader who gets things done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thunderbird&#8217;s Atomic Cartoons has optioned the rights to adapt the book series Princesses Wear Pants as an animated TV show, with Drew Barrymore and Flower Films executive producing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":14976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[458,4013,4014,526],"class_list":["post-14975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-atomic-cartoons","tag-drew-barrymore","tag-princesses-wear-pants","tag-thunderbird","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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